Cinerama Hollywood
6360 Sunset Boulevard,
Los Angeles,
CA
90028
6360 Sunset Boulevard,
Los Angeles,
CA
90028
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Thanks for the link, CWalczak. Here’s wishing that there was a theatre here in the Boston area that could/would show 70mm Classic films. I’d go in a heartbeat, if you all know what I mean! :)
It is: http://www.in70mm.com/now_showing/index.htm
Do you have a direct link to the in70mm.com webiste? I’m not seeing it. Thanks.
Hi, JSA. Thanks for the info.
The in70mm site has posted the dates of Sep 8 & 10 for the Cinerama presentations of “How the West was Won” & “This is Cinerama”.
JSA
Ya know….it would be neat if they had something like the Dome or the Arclight here in the Boston area. One thing that’s occurring more and more to me is that part of the reason that so many movie palace theatres have closed is that in the last few administrations, funding for the Arts, in general, has been decimated considerably (as have other things), helping to go towards our invasion of foreign countries with impunity. It’s quite sad, indeed.
J.Sittig:Thanks for the information. Hopefully 3-strip Cinerama will return to the Dome!
Manwithnoname: Yes, I’m aware that the Dome is capable to show 70 MM format. But there is a difference in quality between the prints that the studios will allow to be presented in a platter vs reel to reel. From my understanding the “2001” print shown last year at the Dome was run in a platter. Not a bad show, (actually a terrific show) but nevertheless there were some visible and audible issues. In contrast, the 70 MM “2001” print screened at the Academy a few months later was in pristine condition.
JSA
Here is a 1980 photo from the LAPL:
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics50/00059853.jpg
The print we are playing on August 24 is 177 minutes including the 15 minute police call intermission. Its the same version we played in October 2003. MGM screened the print last week and found it to be in “fabulous” condition. We are playing it with original sound mix of 5 stage channels and mono surround (although its DTS now instead of mag) and using an Ultra Panavision lens courtesy of Panavision Inc.
There is also a very good chance of playing This Is Cinerama and How The West Was Won right after labor day in three-strip Cinerama and
one 70mm (magenta prints)double feature of THE GOLDEN HEAD and HOLIDAY IN SPAIN. Confirmed information will be available around August 15.
Well, I believe that the 192 min. version is the so-called “uncut” roadshow version. If so, then is this a restored version? Or a work in progress? Or a faded/scratched print?
I was left with the impression that reel-to-reel presentations at the Dome were a thing of the past, thus effectively killing the possibility of screening quality 70 MM prints…
Anyway, did not mean to sound negative: I’ll be there regardless!
JSA
Renewing link.
Good to see IAMMMMW back at the Dome again. I’ve already seen it there and had an awesome time. I’m holding my breath for “This Is Cinerama” since I haven’t seen that yet.
“Lawrence” would be nice for the September downtime, too.
On Monday August 24, ArcLight Hollywood will have one showing of Stanley Kramer’s “IT’S A MAD, MAD MAD, MAD WORLD” in 70mm Ultra Panavison in the theatre that premiered that film 46 years ago, The Cinerama Dome. Tickets are now on sale at the theatre boxoffice or on line at arclightcinemas.com
I saw it (1st show midnight Tuesday the 23rd)…
It was digital and it was LOOOONNGGG.
Looked great (except the subtitles at the bottom were either a) almost cut off in the center or b) showcased the geometry problems with the screen where the text appeared straight instead of following the curve of the screen).
It looked great, though, and it sounded amazing (one of the best I’ve heard in there). Michael Bay was there to introduce the show.
I hope they’re showing it on their 2k DLP rather than projecting a blurry washed out print like the one I saw in theater #3. Why wasn’t it digital?
Anybody seen Transformers 2 at the Dome yet?
I saw Star Trek at the Dome on Friday.
I’ve also seen it on IMAX.
The Dome was Better.
oh wait a minute. Maybe that’s the answer. NATM 2 will push Star Trek off all the IMAX screens this weekend. Star Trek geeks who would have been willing to go across town to see it on an IMAX screen somewhere this weekend could still go to the Dome and see it on the big Cinerama screen instead.
but Star Trek was also in IMAX.
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.
Star Trek will still be playing in The Dome this weekend. Its much better reviewed and critically acclaimed than the big Memorial Day openers, but from a business standpoint why keep it in the biggest auditorium? Terminator Salvation and Night at The Museum 2 will probably gross twice as much this weekend.
A first: Arclight AND Chinese both booking Terminator Salvation.
I apologize for offending the Village. It is indeed one of the best remaining single screen palaces and deserves a visit every once in a while when something worth seeing is playing on it’s screen.
Premiere night, 1965, from the LAPL:
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics28/00063855.jpg
I think the Village in Westwood has the best overall presentation quality of the few remaining first run movie palaces in southern CA. And at 1300+ seats I believe it also has the largest seating capacity of any first run movie auditorium in So Cal.
On the cinematreasures page for the Village they are saying that Mann will likely not renew the leases on the Village and Bruin when they expire in a couple of years.