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HowardBHaas commented about Cine Teatro Grand Splendid on Jan 14, 2019 at 5:32 am

new article https://www.npr.org/2019/01/12/684636807/inside-the-world-s-most-beautiful-bookstore-in-argentina?mc_cid=bfaa0f6eaf&mc_eid=91acd9b937&fbclid=IwAR2WOxtV2thw2SHhEO6amdu2Yed5xH2Gg6nWuOYfcTvDO4pWXxvtftMkGy0

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HowardBHaas commented about Hackensack Meridian Health Theatre on Jan 9, 2019 at 2:28 pm

The movie “Bohemian Rhapsody” sold out every seat last night here! 2nd screening tonight, with many seats already sold out. The theater has 7.1 surround sound so should be a marvelous experience.

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HowardBHaas commented about Teatro Metropolitan on Jan 6, 2019 at 4:47 am

LA Times article with ornate lobby photo showing Roma’s director who also had world premiere of Y u Mama Tambien here. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/miranda/la-et-cam-alfonso-cuaron-colonia-roma-20190103-story.html?outputType=amp

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HowardBHaas commented about Royal Palast and Europa Studio on Jan 4, 2019 at 11:44 am

Jean-Pierre Gutzeit posted at Facebook that “Doctor Zhivago” had a 166 weeks run here on the 32 metres curved Cinerama Screen.

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HowardBHaas commented about Odeon Luxe London Leicester Square on Jan 2, 2019 at 1:58 pm

I am sure a movie theater will happily charge what the market can bear. Easy enough to see for reserved seat theaters if many customers were paying the prices, by checking online- esp over the weekend. As someone from the States there only once a year, I’d consider 20 & 25 lbs- if they use a curtain! I wouldn’t consider 40 lbs- that’s ridiculously too high.

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HowardBHaas commented about Odeon Luxe London Leicester Square on Jan 2, 2019 at 4:25 am

this article says flying ladies back soon. Maybe that’s what’s to happen in Jan. https://www.screendaily.com/features/how-odeons-uk-and-ireland-chief-plans-to-transform-the-multiplex-experience-/5135466.article

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HowardBHaas commented about Empire Cinemas - London Haymarket on Dec 28, 2018 at 12:18 pm

Lionel, I like to sit in the rear, the raised balcony section. With huge new screen, I sat in the top row (for max leg room) & screen still looked large! Most people though sit in the regular section of seats before the balcony, mid back to all the way back. All sight lines are great with this large screen!

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HowardBHaas commented about Odeon Luxe London Leicester Square on Dec 26, 2018 at 4:34 am

Article regarding the ticket prices with seating chart- https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46438241

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HowardBHaas commented about Odeon Merrion Centre Leeds on Dec 26, 2018 at 4:27 am

article with photos of existing conditions showing remnants of this cinema https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/the-secret-leeds-cinema-inside-the-merrion-centre-is-up-for-rent-1-9466002

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HowardBHaas commented about Empire Cinemas - London Haymarket on Dec 23, 2018 at 5:09 am

Visiting annually from the States, I love this cinema & try to see at least one movie upstairs in main auditorium. Picture & sound quality (7.1) were excellent! The picture filled the screen. I estimated the new larger screen at about 40 feet wide (for scope). The prior screen I had estimated as 32 feet or larger (for scope) & had seemed like a very large screen, considering sightlines. “First Man” which I saw in October, was great in this auditorium. In October 2017, “Blade Runner 2049” was what I had seen.

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HowardBHaas commented about Odeon Luxe London Leicester Square on Dec 22, 2018 at 2:06 pm

This was linked above-https://www.trustedreviews.com/news/behind-scenes-dolby-cinema-odeon-3635999 which says “In a nice touch, the curtains for the screen replicate the original from the 1930s” That would be very sloppy writing if it meant a projected image of the safety curtain! Let’s hope there’s curtains now or in January when the ladies & whatever other aspects are finished.

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HowardBHaas commented about Cineworld Cinema - Leicester Square on Dec 17, 2018 at 4:26 am

is this photo in this article the former Ritz specified in the Intro? now a 4Dx? are there columns further back on the auditorium’s side walls? https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/dec/14/big-screen-boom-uk-cinemas-on-track-for-best-year-since-1971?mc_cid=43095b016d&mc_eid=91acd9b937

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HowardBHaas commented about Paris Theatre on Dec 14, 2018 at 4:20 am

I enjoyed Mary Queen of Scots yesterday at the Paris. The brochure is not like the roadshow programs but is very nice. Along with a postcard which specifies that the movie is at the Paris, copies are on the table before the orchestra (main floor) seating, for audience members to take if they wish. Most people don’t seem to go to the table, so the Paris had not run out of the nice items! Exiting the lobby, staffers give an invite to the nearby Plaza Hotel for a deluxe dessert, a regal one inspired by Queen Mary, with the purchase of a cocktail or evening fare. This epic movie, wonderfully acted & filmed, is worthy of seeing at the Paris!

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HowardBHaas commented about Paris Theatre on Dec 11, 2018 at 4:12 am

Over this past weekend, looking online, the majority of seats at the Paris were selling out for Mary Queen of Scots, so if a brochure was provided, the theater would need boxes of them! Bigjoe, how many pages is the brochure? is it as large as the Phantom Thread and Hateful Eight programs which are similar to old roadshow books?

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HowardBHaas commented about Odeon West End on Dec 7, 2018 at 5:25 pm

“amorphous blob” (to quote above) 2008 rendering- https://www.standard.co.uk/news/coming-soon-movies-in-the-odeon-basement-6830391.html

much improved 2014 rendering (though I’d rather than original theater have stayed)– https://www.citmagazine.com/article/1228193/leicester-square-odeon-cinema-demolished-new-hotel

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HowardBHaas commented about Odeon Luxe London Leicester Square on Dec 4, 2018 at 6:04 pm

I do know not what is more outrageous, London’s flagship, premiere movie theater not using any tabs/curtains or anyone thinking moviegoers will pay what CF100 reports above, per seats.

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HowardBHaas commented about Odeon Luxe London Leicester Square on Nov 29, 2018 at 7:11 pm

Last I asked Vue West End staff, which was 2 or 3 years ago, “tabs” (curtains) & masking/matting, might be used in screens 5,6,7. Last 2 times I saw movies in aud 2, which was in 2012-13, no curtain was used, no masking- the scope movie was letterboxed. As a visitor, I’m not eager to pay top prices for such a presentation. I’ve always been in awe of this Odeon, and seen more movies in recent years (except this year as it was being gutted) and hope for masking & curtain to be used.

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HowardBHaas commented about Beekman Theatre on Nov 26, 2018 at 4:47 am

I saw Stealing Beauty and The Dreamers at the Beekman when they were issued. https://variety.com/2018/film/global/bernardo-bertolucci-dead-dies-director-the-last-emperor-1203036077/

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HowardBHaas commented about Prince Charles Cinema on Nov 21, 2018 at 4:33 pm

Last month, I saw that the Mens toilets had been totally redone & were nice looking. Staff said they had been redone about 4 months prior to my visit. I don’t recall that the downstairs foyer or the ground floor space had changed. I enjoyed 2 classic movies, An American Werewolf in London (DCP) & Death Line (1972, 35mm), both perfect for this visitor from the States. As to the prior comment, I enjoyed better the sightlines from the balcony/circle, which had been open during weekday matinees, and alas is now the 2nd screen. I do have my favorite vantage point in the stalls, about the 10th row from the screen. I’ve not seen a movie in the upstairs auditorium.

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HowardBHaas commented about Union County Performing Arts Center on Nov 11, 2018 at 1:18 pm

Website identifies the 3 films for Jan, Feb, March, on Friday eves at 8 PM, each in 35mm, for only $5 each with 30 minutes of organ playing before, and free popcorn. Jan 25, The Breakfast Club, Feb 15, Pretty Woman, March 8, The Karate Kid. Of course, check website for any changes.

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HowardBHaas commented about Odeon Luxe London Leicester Square on Nov 8, 2018 at 5:23 am

I’m glad to see the ladies on the side walls. I would hope for use of curtains (tabs) & masking/matting. The AMC Lincoln Square (New York City) page indicates recent conversion (by Odeon’s owner AMC) of non historic but ornate “Loews” auditorium so that all ornate decoration has been removed from that auditorium, and installed is a “floating screen” with “flat” movies simply letterboxed, not masked/matted.

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HowardBHaas commented about AMC Lincoln Square 13 on Nov 6, 2018 at 3:03 am

Thanks, pl86. the Godfather would’ve been 35mm. I’d be eager if you dug thru old files for the classic 70mm screenings. That explains where that 1990s 70mm (blow up) of The Wild Bunch was. That huge screen & wonderful ornate auditorium, which used its curtain when it opened, would’ve been a great place for epic 70mm movies.

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HowardBHaas commented about AMC Lincoln Square 13 on Nov 5, 2018 at 5:38 pm

Which classic movies were shown in 70mm in the huge Loews auditorium?

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HowardBHaas commented about Phoenix Cinema on Nov 3, 2018 at 12:38 pm

Will stay independent, not be part of Curzon, because people want it independent! https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/nov/03/protests-prompt-phoenix-cinema-to-drop-curzon-takeover

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HowardBHaas commented about Prince Charles Cinema on Nov 2, 2018 at 6:33 am

I saw movies when it was a single screener sitting in both stalls & balcony/circle, and agree with Lionel as to his commments. I preferred the sightlines from the balcony. I’ve since seen more movies in the main floor auditorium, finding the rows I like most there. There are still 70mm presentations including currently 2001 and Die Hard.