I think people hate Episode III for the “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!” scene.
And the Darth Vader cameo in Night At The Museum 2 looks like a bad ploy to get people to see a sequel that shouldn’t make been made in the first place.
Interesting note about that photo I posted: neither movie played past one week. The next week, Cobra replaced both films and played on both screens. One print was in 70mm.
I imagine that the easiest way to do double features is to run two films from the same studio. That way the shipping costs and tracking down the prints won’t be as much of a headache as it would with a double feature with films from two different studios.
Examples Of Such Same Studio Double Features:
Pink Floyd: The Wall and Brainstorm (MGM/Warner Bros.)
Friday and Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle (New Line)
The Muppet Movie and The Dark Crystal (Universal)
Night Of The Creeps and The Monster Squad (Sony)
The Big Lebowski and Blood Simple (Universal)
Wayne’s World and Tommy Boy (Paramount)
Freaked and Idiocracy (Fox)
I saw this one at the Springfield 8 in Springfield, Missouri near the end of its first run, I believe in DTS.
I saw Episode II at the Palace (in Springfield) in second run in THX and Episode III at the Campbell 16 Cine on opening day in Dolby Digital EX. I also saw the rather infamous Clone Wars movie at the same theatre as Episode III on opening day, but in a small auditorium in Dolby Digital.
I may also be one of the few people who liked The Clone Wars.
These could be some good summer titles for Cinemark’s resurrected River Oaks:
5/1/2009 Wolverine
5/8/2009 Star Trek
5/21/2009 Terminator Salvation
6/5/2009 Land Of The Lost
6/12/2009 The Taking Of Pelham 123
6/24/2009 Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen
7/1/2009 Public Enemies
7/15/2009 Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince
8/7/2009 G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra
8/21/2009 Inglorious Basterds
8/28/2009 H2
9/4/2009 Pandorum
It looks like the surprise success of Fast and Furious has saved the theatre at the moment considering that they’ve started to get better bookings. Obsessed is currently playing in the main house with Wolverine coming and Fighting is also playing in the Chinese 6. Fast and Furious meanwhile is still running in FOUR auditoriums.
Siskel and Ebert actually did rethink Mad Max. They would later praise it and compared RoboCop (which got two thumbs up) to the Mad Max films when they reviewed RoboCop.
Also, kudos to Al for bashing Miss March. Let’s also include:
Dragonball Evolution
Street Fighter: The Legend Of Chun-Li
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Bride Wars
The Rocker
Max Payne
The Happening
Meet The Spartans
Babylon A.D.
Jumper
Don’t worry Cinemark, the theatre would probably be an Indy-style adventure itself.
Meanwhile, I would have taken up the 70mm Apocalypse Now showing. I’ve never seen it in a theatre but my parents did a year before getting married. My mother called one of the worst movies she’d even seen (but nowadays she would probably tell the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie was the worst ever, though I strongly disagree with that).
Oh my, I’m babbling.
Also, a 70mm Poltergeist/E.T. Spielberg double bill seems nice.
I’ve been attempting to do a list of films that played here from the 1960’s to the 1990’s, but newspaper strikes in 1963 and 1978 have caused me to halt the 1960’s and 1970’s lists. So instead, I will give you a list of movies that played here in the 1980’s.
Here we go.
-1980 began with a continued run of Kramer vs. Kramer
6/11/1980 Urban Cowboy (8 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
8/8/1980 The Fiendish Plot Of Dr. Fu Manchu (6 weeks)
9/19/1980 Ordinary People (11 weeks)
12/3/1980 The Competition (13 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
3/6/1981 All Night Long (4 weeks, stereo)
4/3/1981 Atlantic City (7 weeks)
5/22/1981 The Four Seasons (11 weeks)
8/7/1981 Heavy Metal (4 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
9/4/1981 Private Lessons (3 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
9/23/1981 Only When I Laugh (8 weeks, stereo)
11/19/1981 Absence Of Malice (12 weeks, stereo)
2/11/1982 One From The Heart (3 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
3/5/1982 I’m Dancing As Fast As I Can (6 weeks)
4/16/1982 Wrong Is Right (6 weeks)
5/28/1982 The Lucky Star (1 week)
6/4/1982 Hanky Panky (3 weeks, stereo)
6/25/1982 Monty Python: Live At The Hollywood Bowl (3 weeks)
7/16/1982 Diner (4 weeks)
8/13/1982 Tempest in 70mm (7 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
10/1/1982 My Favorite Year (3 weeks)
10/22/1982 Monsignor (4 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
11/19/1982 Still Of The Night (4 weeks)
12/17/1982 Tootsie (7 weeks)
2/4/1983 Without A Trace (4 weeks)
¾/1983 Tender Mercies (4 weeks, stereo)
4/1/1983 Man, Woman and Child (5 weeks)
5/6/1983 Flashdance (MO, 7 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
6/22/1983 The Survivors (2 weeks)
7/8/1983 Trading Places (MO, 4 weeks)
8/5/1983 The Star Chamber in 70mm (4 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
9/2/1983 Gandhi in 70mm (RE, 3 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
9/23/1983 Trading Places (RE, 3 weeks)
10/9/1983 Rumble Fish (5 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
11/18/1983 A Christmas Story (4 weeks)
12/14/1983 Silkwood (12 weeks)
3/9/1984 The Hotel New Hampshire (5 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
4/13/1984 Against All Odds (MO, 1 week, Dolby Stereo)
4/20/1984 Champions (1 week, Dolby Stereo)
4/27/1984 Footloose (MO, 1 week, Dolby Stereo)
5/4/1984 Purple Hearts (1 week, Dolby Stereo)
5/11/1984 This Is Spinal Tap (MO, 1 week, Dolby Stereo)
5/18/1984 Moscow On The Hudson (MO, 5 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
6/22/1984 Top Secret (7 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
8/10/1984 Phar Lap (6 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
9/19/1984 Amadeus in 70mm (9 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
11/21/1984 Falling In Love (8 weeks)
1/18/1985 That’s Dancing! (3 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
2/8/1985 Witness (16 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
5/31/1985 Fletch (8 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
7/26/1985 Wetherby (2 weeks, stereo)
8/9/1985 Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (3 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
8/30/1985 Compromising Positions (9 weeks)
11/1/1985 Macaroni (5 weeks)
12/6/1985 closed (2 weeks)
12/18/1985 Out Of Africa in 70mm (14 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
3/28/1986 Ginger and Fred (7 weeks)
5/14/1986 Sweet Liberty (5 weeks)
6/18/1986 Legal Eagles (5 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
7/25/1986 Heartburn (6 weeks)
9/12/1986 ‘night, Mother (3 weeks)
10/3/1986 Children Of A Lesser God (12 weeks)
12/25/1986 Brighton Beach Memoirs (6 weeks)
2/6/1987 Dead Of Winter (4 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
3/6/1987 Angel Heart (5 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
4/10/1987 Making Mr. Right (4 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
5/8/1987 Gardens Of Stone (7 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
6/24/1987 Spaceballs in 70mm (7 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
8/14/1987 No Way Out (5 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
9/18/1987 Fatal Attraction (13 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
12/18/1987 Ironweed (7 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
2/5/1988 The Unbearable Lightness Of Being (7 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
3/25/1988 A New Life (3 weeks)
4/15/1988 The Last Emperor in 70mm (RE, 2 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
4/29/1988 The Last Emperor (RE, 3 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
5/20/1988 Willow in 70mm (8 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
7/15/1988 A Fish Called Wanda (7 weeks)
9/2/1988 Eight Men Out (4 weeks)
9/30/1988 Married To The Mob (MO, 2 weeks, Dolby Stereo SR)
10/14/1988 The Accused (8 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
12/9/1988 Mississippi Burning (16 weeks, Dolby Stereo SR)
3/31/1989 Rain Man (RE, 4 weeks, Dolby Stereo SR)
4/28/1989 Miss Firecracker (1 week, Dolby Stereo)
5/5/1989 Lost Angels (2 weeks, Dolby Stereo SR)
5/19/1989 Heathers (MO, 1 week)
5/26/1989 Criminal Law (MO, 1 week, Dolby Stereo)
6/2/1989 Earth Girls Are Easy (MO, 4 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
6/30/1989 Great Balls Of Fire (2 weeks, Dolby Stereo SR)
7/14/1989 Peter Pan (RE, 4 weeks)
8/9/1989 Honey, I Shrunk The Kids (MO, 1 week, Dolby Stereo)
8/18/1989 Let It Ride (2 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
8/30/1989 Shirley Valentine (6 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
10/13/1989 Crimes and Misdemeanors (17 weeks)
I’ve been looking at old New York Times microfilm and I noticed that this theatre had some rather eclectic fare. For example, in 1982 they played the “Best Of Almi Cinema 5 Festival” and showed films such as Z, The Man Who Fell To Earth and other films not normally shown at multiplexes.
They also got the New Jersey exclusives of various art and foreign films. That is variety. Say in 1982, you could see films like Star Trek II or Blade Runner on one screen while on another screen, you could see Diva or The Long Good Friday.
Too bad nowadays, it’s all playing Fast and Furious on six screens or My Bloody Valentine 3-D on three screens for $15 a ticket. They need variety in these big theatres. Isn’t that why they built them? 30 screens, 30 movies?
Nice photos, Mr. Budnick. I’m guessing that the photos were mainly in Winter and Summer 1988 (since I can tell that posters for Eddie Murphy Raw and The Blob appear in them).
I would have guessed that Night At The Museum would be in the Dome but they probably don’t want to compete with theatres running it in IMAX.
That’s a cute little story.
You could also play Friends episodes when the duck and the chicken appeared.
That’s a pretty strange double bill. A big-budget Coppola film paired with a B-grade martial arts import.
I think people hate Episode III for the “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!” scene.
And the Darth Vader cameo in Night At The Museum 2 looks like a bad ploy to get people to see a sequel that shouldn’t make been made in the first place.
Those seats look very Orwellian.
Also, was the George C. Wolfe that ended the film series the same George C. Wolfe that directed Lackawanna Blues and Nights In Rodanthe?
Six times? That is one long day!
The last two films shown at the Strand (which closed as the RKO Warner Twin): Allan Quarterman and the Lost City Of Gold and Deadtime Stories.
Interesting note about that photo I posted: neither movie played past one week. The next week, Cobra replaced both films and played on both screens. One print was in 70mm.
Cine is short for cinema. And the second pronouncation is correct.
I imagine that the easiest way to do double features is to run two films from the same studio. That way the shipping costs and tracking down the prints won’t be as much of a headache as it would with a double feature with films from two different studios.
Examples Of Such Same Studio Double Features:
Pink Floyd: The Wall and Brainstorm (MGM/Warner Bros.)
Friday and Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle (New Line)
The Muppet Movie and The Dark Crystal (Universal)
Night Of The Creeps and The Monster Squad (Sony)
The Big Lebowski and Blood Simple (Universal)
Wayne’s World and Tommy Boy (Paramount)
Freaked and Idiocracy (Fox)
and so on
I saw this one at the Springfield 8 in Springfield, Missouri near the end of its first run, I believe in DTS.
I saw Episode II at the Palace (in Springfield) in second run in THX and Episode III at the Campbell 16 Cine on opening day in Dolby Digital EX. I also saw the rather infamous Clone Wars movie at the same theatre as Episode III on opening day, but in a small auditorium in Dolby Digital.
I may also be one of the few people who liked The Clone Wars.
They replaced 2001 with Song Of Norway? I bet that they were wanting 2001 back when that one bombed.
Run Half Baked. And Cheech and Chong. Also, Harold and Kumar and the first two Friday movies.
These could be some good summer titles for Cinemark’s resurrected River Oaks:
5/1/2009 Wolverine
5/8/2009 Star Trek
5/21/2009 Terminator Salvation
6/5/2009 Land Of The Lost
6/12/2009 The Taking Of Pelham 123
6/24/2009 Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen
7/1/2009 Public Enemies
7/15/2009 Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince
8/7/2009 G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra
8/21/2009 Inglorious Basterds
8/28/2009 H2
9/4/2009 Pandorum
Another movie that had a long run was Shoah. And due to its running time, it played on both screens and $10 admissions were charged for each part.
It looks like the surprise success of Fast and Furious has saved the theatre at the moment considering that they’ve started to get better bookings. Obsessed is currently playing in the main house with Wolverine coming and Fighting is also playing in the Chinese 6. Fast and Furious meanwhile is still running in FOUR auditoriums.
One for Mountaintop Motel Massacre, please.
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Siskel and Ebert actually did rethink Mad Max. They would later praise it and compared RoboCop (which got two thumbs up) to the Mad Max films when they reviewed RoboCop.
Good thing I’ve got some spare pairs.
Also, kudos to Al for bashing Miss March. Let’s also include:
Dragonball Evolution
Street Fighter: The Legend Of Chun-Li
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Bride Wars
The Rocker
Max Payne
The Happening
Meet The Spartans
Babylon A.D.
Jumper
Metropolis and Pee Wee look about right. The poster for the latter even appears.
A strange double bill.
Don’t worry Cinemark, the theatre would probably be an Indy-style adventure itself.
Meanwhile, I would have taken up the 70mm Apocalypse Now showing. I’ve never seen it in a theatre but my parents did a year before getting married. My mother called one of the worst movies she’d even seen (but nowadays she would probably tell the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie was the worst ever, though I strongly disagree with that).
Oh my, I’m babbling.
Also, a 70mm Poltergeist/E.T. Spielberg double bill seems nice.
I’ve been attempting to do a list of films that played here from the 1960’s to the 1990’s, but newspaper strikes in 1963 and 1978 have caused me to halt the 1960’s and 1970’s lists. So instead, I will give you a list of movies that played here in the 1980’s.
Here we go.
-1980 began with a continued run of Kramer vs. Kramer
6/11/1980 Urban Cowboy (8 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
8/8/1980 The Fiendish Plot Of Dr. Fu Manchu (6 weeks)
9/19/1980 Ordinary People (11 weeks)
12/3/1980 The Competition (13 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
3/6/1981 All Night Long (4 weeks, stereo)
4/3/1981 Atlantic City (7 weeks)
5/22/1981 The Four Seasons (11 weeks)
8/7/1981 Heavy Metal (4 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
9/4/1981 Private Lessons (3 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
9/23/1981 Only When I Laugh (8 weeks, stereo)
11/19/1981 Absence Of Malice (12 weeks, stereo)
2/11/1982 One From The Heart (3 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
3/5/1982 I’m Dancing As Fast As I Can (6 weeks)
4/16/1982 Wrong Is Right (6 weeks)
5/28/1982 The Lucky Star (1 week)
6/4/1982 Hanky Panky (3 weeks, stereo)
6/25/1982 Monty Python: Live At The Hollywood Bowl (3 weeks)
7/16/1982 Diner (4 weeks)
8/13/1982 Tempest in 70mm (7 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
10/1/1982 My Favorite Year (3 weeks)
10/22/1982 Monsignor (4 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
11/19/1982 Still Of The Night (4 weeks)
12/17/1982 Tootsie (7 weeks)
2/4/1983 Without A Trace (4 weeks)
¾/1983 Tender Mercies (4 weeks, stereo)
4/1/1983 Man, Woman and Child (5 weeks)
5/6/1983 Flashdance (MO, 7 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
6/22/1983 The Survivors (2 weeks)
7/8/1983 Trading Places (MO, 4 weeks)
8/5/1983 The Star Chamber in 70mm (4 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
9/2/1983 Gandhi in 70mm (RE, 3 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
9/23/1983 Trading Places (RE, 3 weeks)
10/9/1983 Rumble Fish (5 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
11/18/1983 A Christmas Story (4 weeks)
12/14/1983 Silkwood (12 weeks)
3/9/1984 The Hotel New Hampshire (5 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
4/13/1984 Against All Odds (MO, 1 week, Dolby Stereo)
4/20/1984 Champions (1 week, Dolby Stereo)
4/27/1984 Footloose (MO, 1 week, Dolby Stereo)
5/4/1984 Purple Hearts (1 week, Dolby Stereo)
5/11/1984 This Is Spinal Tap (MO, 1 week, Dolby Stereo)
5/18/1984 Moscow On The Hudson (MO, 5 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
6/22/1984 Top Secret (7 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
8/10/1984 Phar Lap (6 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
9/19/1984 Amadeus in 70mm (9 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
11/21/1984 Falling In Love (8 weeks)
1/18/1985 That’s Dancing! (3 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
2/8/1985 Witness (16 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
5/31/1985 Fletch (8 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
7/26/1985 Wetherby (2 weeks, stereo)
8/9/1985 Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (3 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
8/30/1985 Compromising Positions (9 weeks)
11/1/1985 Macaroni (5 weeks)
12/6/1985 closed (2 weeks)
12/18/1985 Out Of Africa in 70mm (14 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
3/28/1986 Ginger and Fred (7 weeks)
5/14/1986 Sweet Liberty (5 weeks)
6/18/1986 Legal Eagles (5 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
7/25/1986 Heartburn (6 weeks)
9/12/1986 ‘night, Mother (3 weeks)
10/3/1986 Children Of A Lesser God (12 weeks)
12/25/1986 Brighton Beach Memoirs (6 weeks)
2/6/1987 Dead Of Winter (4 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
3/6/1987 Angel Heart (5 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
4/10/1987 Making Mr. Right (4 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
5/8/1987 Gardens Of Stone (7 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
6/24/1987 Spaceballs in 70mm (7 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
8/14/1987 No Way Out (5 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
9/18/1987 Fatal Attraction (13 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
12/18/1987 Ironweed (7 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
2/5/1988 The Unbearable Lightness Of Being (7 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
3/25/1988 A New Life (3 weeks)
4/15/1988 The Last Emperor in 70mm (RE, 2 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
4/29/1988 The Last Emperor (RE, 3 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
5/20/1988 Willow in 70mm (8 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
7/15/1988 A Fish Called Wanda (7 weeks)
9/2/1988 Eight Men Out (4 weeks)
9/30/1988 Married To The Mob (MO, 2 weeks, Dolby Stereo SR)
10/14/1988 The Accused (8 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
12/9/1988 Mississippi Burning (16 weeks, Dolby Stereo SR)
3/31/1989 Rain Man (RE, 4 weeks, Dolby Stereo SR)
4/28/1989 Miss Firecracker (1 week, Dolby Stereo)
5/5/1989 Lost Angels (2 weeks, Dolby Stereo SR)
5/19/1989 Heathers (MO, 1 week)
5/26/1989 Criminal Law (MO, 1 week, Dolby Stereo)
6/2/1989 Earth Girls Are Easy (MO, 4 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
6/30/1989 Great Balls Of Fire (2 weeks, Dolby Stereo SR)
7/14/1989 Peter Pan (RE, 4 weeks)
8/9/1989 Honey, I Shrunk The Kids (MO, 1 week, Dolby Stereo)
8/18/1989 Let It Ride (2 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
8/30/1989 Shirley Valentine (6 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
10/13/1989 Crimes and Misdemeanors (17 weeks)
I’ve been looking at old New York Times microfilm and I noticed that this theatre had some rather eclectic fare. For example, in 1982 they played the “Best Of Almi Cinema 5 Festival” and showed films such as Z, The Man Who Fell To Earth and other films not normally shown at multiplexes.
They also got the New Jersey exclusives of various art and foreign films. That is variety. Say in 1982, you could see films like Star Trek II or Blade Runner on one screen while on another screen, you could see Diva or The Long Good Friday.
Too bad nowadays, it’s all playing Fast and Furious on six screens or My Bloody Valentine 3-D on three screens for $15 a ticket. They need variety in these big theatres. Isn’t that why they built them? 30 screens, 30 movies?
Nice photos, Mr. Budnick. I’m guessing that the photos were mainly in Winter and Summer 1988 (since I can tell that posters for Eddie Murphy Raw and The Blob appear in them).
That’s what the ad says.