Regency Village Theatre
961 Broxton Avenue,
Los Angeles,
CA
90024
961 Broxton Avenue,
Los Angeles,
CA
90024
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Not sure. So far there having only been Midnight pre-sales for May 21.
Just got ‘em. Can’t wait! What do you think the chances are of them pulling an Iron Man and adding an 8pm showing?
In case anyone is interested, On the Mann Theatres site the Village is now pre-selling INDIANA JONES tickets for the May 22 debut.
I agree, the 70’s were the best years for contemporary cinema. I’d love to go back in time and see some of the films that played at the Village.
As a projectionist of almost 33 years, some of these titles bring back memories. I remember running many of the above titles as a “co-feature” in some of the “dollar houses” I started out in. Great movie line-up above Mike, and a great time in the movie industry as well. Wish I could go back in time.
VILLAGE: The 1970s
National General Corporation (NGC): 1970-73
Mann Theatres: 1973-79
RE = Re-Issue/Return Engagement
MO = Move-over (i.e. continuation of an engagement from another theater)
RPE = Reserved-Performance “Roadshow†Engagement
02.06.1970 … THE HAPPY ENDING (4 weeks)
03.04.1970 … THE KREMLIN LETTER (5 weeks)
04.10.1970 … HALLS OF ANGER (2 weeks)
04.24.1970 … TELL THEM WILLIE BOY IS HERE (6 weeks)
06.03.1970 … THE LANDLORD (7 weeks)
07.22.1970 … COTTON COMES TO HARLEM (4 weeks)
08.19.1970 … LOVERS AND OTHER STRANGERS (17 weeks)
12.16.1970 … HUSBANDS (1 week for Oscar consideration)
12.25.1970 … LOVE STORY (26 weeks)
06.23.1971 … PLAZA SUITE (6 weeks)
08.04.1971 … THE LAST RUN (6 weeks)
09.15.1971 … JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN (5 weeks)
10.20.1971 … T.R. BASKIN (8 weeks)
12.15.1971 … MACBETH (1 week for Oscar consideration)
12.22.1971 … HAROLD AND MAUDE (3 weeks)
01.12.1972 … SUCH GOOD FRIENDS (4 weeks)
02.10.1972 … MADE FOR EACH OTHER (6 weeks)
03.22.1972 … THE GODFATHER (16 weeks)
07.12.1972 … PORTNOY’S COMPLAINT (6 weeks)
08.23.1972 … THE HERO (1 week)
09.01.1972 … ULYSSES (RE, 2 weeks)
09.13.1972 … THE GODFATHER (RE, 1 week)
09.20.1972 … THE GODFATHER / THE BOSTON STRANGLER (RE, 1 week)
09.27.1972 … THE FRENCH CONNECTION / MAS*H (RE, 1 week)
10.04.1972 … HICKEY & BOGGS / RETURN OF SABATA (1 week)
10.11.1972 … CANCEL MY RESERVATION (1 week)
10.18.1972 … HEAT (4 weeks)
11.15.1972 … RAINBOW BRIDGE (3 weeks)
12.06.1972 … THE LEGEND OF BOGGY CREEK (2 weeks)
12.22.1972 … AVANTI! (7 weeks)
02.07.1973 … STEELYARD BLUES (4 weeks)
03.07.1973 … THE LONG GOODBYE (3 weeks)
03.28.1973 … BAXTER (2 weeks)
04.11.1973 … THE EMIGRANTS (1 week)
04.18.1973 … THEATRE OF BLOOD (2 weeks)
05.02.1973 … CABARET / THE BOY FRIEND (RE, 1 week)
05.09.1973 … MAN OF LA MANCHA / CACTUS IN THE SNOW (1 week)
05.16.1973 … PETE ‘N’ TILLIE / FRENZY (1 week)
05.23.1973 … HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER / YOU’LL LIKE MY MOTHER (1 week)
06.01.1973 … WHAT’S UP, DOC? / PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM (RE, 1 week)
06.06.1973 … BILLY JACK / BANANAS (1 week)
06.13.1973 … PAPER MOON (10 weeks)
08.22.1973 … ROMEO & JULIET (RE, 7 weeks)
10.10.1973 … FANTASIA (RE, 3 weeks)
10.31.1973 … JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL (7 weeks)
12.18.1973 … SERPICO (10 weeks)
02.27.1974 … MAN ON A SWING (4 weeks)
03.29.1974 … BADLANDS (3 weeks)
04.19.1974 … BLAZING SADDLES (MO, 5 weeks)
05.24.1974 … THE BLACK WINDMILL (4 weeks)
06.19.1974 … THE TERMINAL MAN (5 weeks)
07.24.1974 … THE WHITE DAWN (3 weeks)
08.14.1974 … CHINATOWN (MO, 2 weeks)
08.28.1974 … 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (RE, 6 weeks, 70mm-Stereo)
10.09.1974 … THE GAMBLER (9 weeks)
12.12.1974 … BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE (2 weeks for Oscar consideration)
12.25.1974 … FREEBIE AND THE BEAN (7 weeks)
02.12.1975 … THE STEPFORD WIVES (6 weeks)
03.26.1975 … SHEILA LEVINE IS DEAD AND LIVING IN NEW YORK (6 weeks)
05.07.1975 … THE DAY OF THE LOCUST (8 weeks)
07.02.1975 … NASHVILLE (13 weeks, Stereo)
10.01.1975 … 3 DAYS OF THE CONDOR (11 weeks)
12.19.1975 … THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING (8 weeks)
02.15.1976 … THE KILLING OF A CHINESE BOOKIE (4 weeks)
03.10.1976 … THE MAN IN THE GLASS BOOTH / CALIFORNIA REICH (1 week)
03.17.1976 … THE MAN IN THE GLASS BOOTH (1 week)
03.24.1976 … THE DUCHESS AND THE DIRTWATER FOX (6 weeks)
05.05.1976 … END OF THE GAME (3 weeks)
05.26.1976 … WON TON TON (3 weeks)
06.16.1976 … LIFEGUARD (1 week)
06.25.1976 … THE OMEN (15 weeks)
10.08.1976 … MARATHON MAN (10 weeks)
12.19.1976 … A STAR IS BORN (9 weeks, 70mm-Dolby Stereo)
02.18.1977 … THIEVES (6 weeks)
04.01.1977 … BLACK SUNDAY (11 weeks)
06.17.1977 … EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC (4 weeks)
07.13.1977 … ORCA (1 week)
07.20.1977 … GREASED LIGHTNING (2 weeks)
08.03.1977 … ONE ON ONE (6 weeks)
09.16.1977 … THX 1138 (RE, 5 weeks)
10.19.1977 … LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR (8 weeks)
12.16.1977 … SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (13 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
03.15.1978 … THE FURY (7 weeks)
05.03.1978 … METAMORPHOSES (3 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
05.26.1978 … AMERICAN GRAFFITI (RE, 3 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
06.16.1978 … GREASE (15 weeks, Dolby Stereo, 70mm-Dolby Stereo from 10th week)
09.29.1978 … DEATH ON THE NILE (10 weeks)
12.08.1978 … THE BRINK’S JOB (1 week for Oscar consideration)
12.15.1978 … OLIVER’S STORY (4 weeks)
01.12.1979 … DAYS OF HEAVEN (MO, 6 weeks, 70mm-Dolby Stereo)
02.23.1979 … THE DEER HUNTER (RPE, 15 weeks, 70mm-Dolby Stereo)
06.08.1979 … PLAYERS (3 weeks)
06.29.1979 … BLOODLINE (3 weeks)
07.20.1979 … RUST NEVER SLEEPS (2 weeks, Dolby Stereo & Rust-O-Vision)
08.03.1979 … NORTH DALLAS FORTY (9 weeks)
10.05.1979 … “10†(10 weeks)
12.14.1979 … THE JERK (8 weeks)
Days of Heaven originally played at the Bruin in the Fall of 1978, it was later booked into the Village as a filler in early 1979 when Oliver’s Story died a quick death.
Charlie, I went to Westchester High… long time ago..
I wanted to retrack and say i didn’t mean to imply Days of Heaven was panned by critics. I remember liking it a lot. Wasn’t it Richard Gere’s film just before “American Gigolo”?. I just dont remember Days of Heaven being a blockbuster, hence the question why it moved from the Bruin to the Village after it’s first run.
Thanks for the correction, Michael. I saw Days of Heaven at the Village based entirely on the outstanding review it received contemporaneously in the L.A. Times; I had always assumed that was the film’s opening engagement.
well i know how you feel aerick,im only 25 and its bringing back memories for me too.i almost forgot all about the tower in westwood,but i did find a business card of thiers,and rhino(orig location) in my desk drawer.i was more of a record person than a theatre person,now thats changed though.any of you local guys go to uni (university high school)?
charlie
yes, the Tower did have 2 stories and I remember the little classical music annex as well. Those stores were narrow if I remember, certainly not the size of the Sunset one.
Thanks Michael. I still am not sure which theatre I must have seen “Days of Heaven”. I am curious why they would “re release” it at a larger theatre such as the Village, I dont' remember thinking it did too well. Didn’t Cimino’s ‘Heavens Gate’ open soon after ‘Days of Heaven’?
this thread brings back memories of moving viewing in LA during my teen years. I remember being 16 or so but into maturer films. I must look up to see if the Laemelle (sp?) theatre is still in westwood around the block, I remember seeing Woody Allen’s “Interiors” there and “Being There” (if I remember correctly). I wonder which theatre I would have seen Bertolucci’s “La Luna” with Jill Clayburgh? Oh how I wish I could remember.
stevebob & Aerick:
“Days Of Heaven” didn’t play the VILLAGE until early 1979. The film opened initially at the BRUIN in September 1978.
Tower was definitely on Westwood through the 1990s- about the middle of the first block south of the UCLA campus (Westwood and Le Conte[?]). They had something called the “Classical Annex” a door or two down but that was gone by 1995.
Glendon was a block east of Westwood, but Tower did have an entrance on Glendon, behind the Plaza.
LeComte! thats the street i couldnt think off,but yea its on the east side of the street.im pretty sure its a resturant now though.
I think Tower was on Glendon, on the east side of the street. about a half block before LeComte.
from my memory tower was south of the ucla entracne on westwood,i want to say the street was laconte,but im not sure.it had 2 stories,i had sumer school at ucla in 97 and it was still in business.if you were heading to ucla it was on the right hand of the street.
Days of Heaven definitely opened at the Village in 1978.
Where was Tower Records located? In the mid-70s, the Wherehouse at the corner of Broxton and Kinross was Westwood’s major record store; the nearest Tower was the original location on the Sunset Strip.
well i can say for sure the tower records closed in the late 90s,its now a italian garden.bullocks left in the early 90s…..
I used to take the bus up from Westchester to Westwood in the late 70s to go this theatre, and others in westwood. I LOVED the big screen viewing. I was probably 15 or 16 (but looked older). I remember seeing “10” here and The Shining and definately “Christiane F” because it was a late showing. Remember that well. I do believe Christiane F was the last film I saw there as I moved to San Francisco for school in summer of 1982. I never returned to see films in LA since then. It was a great theatre. I was trying to figure out where I saw “Days of Heaven”. Somewhere in Westwood.
sad to hear if Westwood has declined. it was such a great place to hang out and walk around the streets in 1979/81. I remember Tower Records, Champs, the little Bullocks a few blocks away..
I just remembered that I saw The Day of the Locust here one afternoon in 1975 — a grand setting for a quintessential slice-of-lowlife from L.A.’s golden age. And in that trove of bizarre characters, was any more louche than little Adore Loomis, the child of ambiguous gender whose provocative taunting of Donald Sutherland’s “Homer Simpson” character leads to the bizarre and unforgettable climactic event of the film?
The trigger for my memory of this long-ago moviegoing event was bizarre, too: I was watching Little Children (2006) on television, and one of the characters — a convicted sex offender who’s being harassed by his neighbors — seemed so compellingly odd that I had to look up the actor on IMDB. His name, Jackie Earle Haley, didn’t ring a bell with me, so I checked out his filmography. It was Adore, all growed up and Oscar-nominated, too!
Not having read Nathaniel West’s novella, I had thought that Adore was a homely and spiteful little girl with a deluded mother trying to groom her into the next Shirley Temple. I’m still recovering from the frisson that this startling sequence of events gave me.
Twist my arm..but I know you are working on the Bruin and Plaza…..
Mark… Instead of the BRUIN or PLAZA, would you settle for the AVCO or a DOME update?
i remember sneaking in through the emergency exit to see fight club.i was still in high school and 3 of my friends worked there so it was ok(in my head at least).the house was pretty empty,maybe about 20 in total.but it does it crowded on friday nights.
It is amazing looking back at what has played at the Village. They had some great films and quite a few ‘fillers’ that make you go huh?
Thanks Michael, How do you know all of this? (bruin bruin bruin (whisper) plaza plaza plaza)