anyone know if the Village is getting any upgrades or improvements of any kind in the next week? Clicking on showtimes for the Village on their website doesn’t list anything for June 16 – June 26 (and here it is, June 15 and Mission Impossible III is STILL playing there. They could have put DVC in but put it in the National instead, and Nacho Libre will play at the Bruin).
But then on June 27 Superman Returns opens at 10:00 PM.
It looks like the Village will be dark for over a week. Anyone know why?
The larger auditoriums were THX. I never visited this theater, but I heard once that Tomlinson Holman rated the presentation quality at the Galaxy very high. Does anyone know if that is true? I know the two theaters that he personally THX’d himself were the AVCO over in Westwood, and the Northpark theater in Dallas, TX.
a number of people have said that the Dome has the finest presentation of any theater in L.A. I don’t see how you can possibly say that. According to the Arclight website the screen is 86 feet by 32 feet.
86/32 = 2.69. This is ok, I guess, for those tiny handful of Cinerama movies that were ever made, but for all first run films in 2.40 or 1.85 the image gets badly distorted on the sides. In the center area of the screen the geometry is ok, but out towards the sides it is stretched and looks awful. In Revenge of the Sith for example, there is a shot of a planet in space a little off center. The part of the planet in the middle of the picture looked circular, but the part towards the side looked elliptical, and the planet looked like an egg.
And its so deeply curved (and not louvered) that it reflects on itself and can look washed out if something bright is on one side and something dark is on the other side.
And there are still sound imaging problems caused by sound reflections off the domed shape of the ceiling, even thought they covered it with acoustic panels during the remodel a few years ago.
Pacific/Arclight probably has the best projection and sound equipment money can buy in the Dome, but unfortunately for showing regular first run films, the auditorium suffers from really serious design flaws. Best presentation of any theater in L.A.? LOL! Far from it!
anyone know if the Village is getting any upgrades or improvements of any kind in the next week? Clicking on showtimes for the Village on their website doesn’t list anything for June 16 – June 26 (and here it is, June 15 and Mission Impossible III is STILL playing there. They could have put DVC in but put it in the National instead, and Nacho Libre will play at the Bruin).
But then on June 27 Superman Returns opens at 10:00 PM.
It looks like the Village will be dark for over a week. Anyone know why?
any chance that an occasional film will screen in there?
David Young, thanks for posting the photos of the auditorium. How wide a movie screen can fit on that stage?
The larger auditoriums were THX. I never visited this theater, but I heard once that Tomlinson Holman rated the presentation quality at the Galaxy very high. Does anyone know if that is true? I know the two theaters that he personally THX’d himself were the AVCO over in Westwood, and the Northpark theater in Dallas, TX.
does anyone know how wide the original screen was back before those columns of the proscenium were demolished to make way for the D-150 screen?
a number of people have said that the Dome has the finest presentation of any theater in L.A. I don’t see how you can possibly say that. According to the Arclight website the screen is 86 feet by 32 feet.
86/32 = 2.69. This is ok, I guess, for those tiny handful of Cinerama movies that were ever made, but for all first run films in 2.40 or 1.85 the image gets badly distorted on the sides. In the center area of the screen the geometry is ok, but out towards the sides it is stretched and looks awful. In Revenge of the Sith for example, there is a shot of a planet in space a little off center. The part of the planet in the middle of the picture looked circular, but the part towards the side looked elliptical, and the planet looked like an egg.
And its so deeply curved (and not louvered) that it reflects on itself and can look washed out if something bright is on one side and something dark is on the other side.
And there are still sound imaging problems caused by sound reflections off the domed shape of the ceiling, even thought they covered it with acoustic panels during the remodel a few years ago.
Pacific/Arclight probably has the best projection and sound equipment money can buy in the Dome, but unfortunately for showing regular first run films, the auditorium suffers from really serious design flaws. Best presentation of any theater in L.A.? LOL! Far from it!