Baltimore’s nearly 150 theaters spanned a wide range of sizes, architectural styles, and audiences.  Many are no longer standing, some have been renovated and adaptively reused, and a few are still operating as theaters. Please join us for a talk by Mr. Wally Coberg, an award winning designer and filmmaker by trade and an avid Baltimore theater researcher by inclination, as he discusses the city’s historic theaters, their history and their future.

Date:   October 22, 2009
Time:   7:00 PM
Place:   Baltimore School for the Arts, 712 Cathedral Street, Baltimore, MD 21201.  Please Use the Cathedral Street entrance under the marquee.
Cost:   Free
RSVP:   410-332-9992

JERSEY CIY, NJ --

Get In The Mood For Halloween
With
Landmark Horror
On the BIG Screen
At The
Landmark Loew’s Jersey Theatre
54 Journal Square, Jersey City, NJ 07306
Tel: (201) 798-6055 Fax: (201) 798-4020 Email: loewsjersey@gmail.com Web: www.loewsjersey.org
A Not-For-Profit Arts Center In A Historic Movie Palace

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WILDWOOD, NJ — Oct 29-31st at the Sea Theater on Pacific Ave. in Wildwood.

Triple Feature - The classic Lon Chaney film “Phantom of the Opera”, the amazing drive in film “Dracula vd. Frankenstein”, and Andy Warhol’s “Flesh of Frankenstein” tickets are $8 per film or pay 15 for all 3. Classic trailers and prizes!

PLEASANT HILL, CA — The 15th Annual Contra Costa International Jewish Film Festival will be on (February 20- February, 26, 2010). I hope you all attend this wonderful event it will be located at Cine Arts. I have been a member since 2007 and I underwritten two films in honor of my Dad. If you want to be a sponsor whether it is a Corporate Sponsor or Individuals going in as a Group, we have different types of Sponsorships.

Please contact Riva Gambert at (510)318-6453(direct work line) (925) 895-3605 Cell or email riva@jfed.org

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WINTER GARDEN, FL —  The Garden Theatre begins its second complete season on Friday, Oct. 9, with “Forever Plaid,” produced by Theatre Works Florida. It will play on Friday/Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoons through October 25. “Plaid” is a guaranteed smash with a series of well-loved songs and right-on patter that keeps audiences laughing as they hum along to some of the great nostalgic pop hits of the 50s and 60s. Tickets are currently on sale through the boxoffice, which can be reached at 407-877-4736.

The Garden Theatre, located at 160 W. Plant Street, is a restored 1935 Mediterranean Revival style movie house, now in use for live productions as well as films. It has helped to spark a remarkable renaissance in downtown Winter Garden’s historic district.

MARION, OH — Sunday, October 25 at 3 p.m. the Palace’s mighty Wurlitzer organ fills the theatre as world renowned organist Dennis James accompanies the classic silent film “The Cat and the Canary.”

Patrons have the opportunity to step back in time and be entertained just as many were when the Palace Theatre first opened its doors in 1928.

Just in time for Halloween, this spooky film takes place at the old mansion of deceased millionaire Cyrus West. Exactly twenty years after his death, West’s will is being read and relatives from across the nation have been invited.

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LOS ANGELES, CA --Saturday, 9/26, - Free Tours of the Million Dollar and Morosco (Club 740) Theatres

Broadway Theatre History Review
Program begins at 11 am, Million Dollar Theatre (3rd & Broadway)

The Los Angeles Historic Theatre Foundation (www.lahtf.org) celebrates the first year of our popular All About… theatre docu-tours on Saturday, September 26, 11am, at the Million Dollar Theatre at 3rd & Broadway. Admission is free and the public is invited. 

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In spite of all the buzz about digital projection, with many predicting the imminent demise of traditional film projection, this year’s Charlotte Film Festival will be deliberately emphasizing 35mm film to provide attendees with what this article in the Charlotte Observer calls “a different viewing experience:”

Let’s say that with emphasis: It’s showing films. Not digital entries that can be tossed up onto any screen, but 35mm pictures that have to be projected in traditional movie theaters.

Partnerships were the key to this quantum leap forward.

The film festival convinced EpiCentre Theaters and Regal’s Park Terrace Cinemas to provide a different viewing experience. The festival strengthened its bond with Queens University of Charlotte, which hosts eight workshops

Read more in the Charlotte Observer.

GRASS VALLEY, CA — The Del Oro Theater is currently running a series of classic films to raise funds to complete the creation of wall murals reflecting the town’s mining history. The theater was built in 1940.

Getz said he is confident the money will be raised to complete the project, which has been in the works since the design was unveiled in March 2007.

In the last week, the mural’s artist, John Pugh, has added another strip of the painting. Pugh has been working in bursts and during the night to get the project done, but there is no estimated date of completion, Getz said.

Read more in in The Union and at the theater’s website.

BROOKLINE, MA — The Coolidge Corner Theatre kicks off a brand-new season of its popular Science on Screen series on Monday, Sep. 21 at 7 pm with a presentation of the Boston-based medical thriller “Coma” and a pre-screening talk by special guest Robin Cook, MD, author of the best-selling novel of the same name.

Something is not quite right at Boston Memorial Hospital. When her best friend falls into a coma after a routine operation, surgical resident Susan Wheeler (Geneviève Bujold) does some digging, and discovers that many other patients, all young and relatively healthy, have met the same fate.  She digs deeper, but her obsession with finding answers only antagonizes her superiors and alienates her ambitious boyfriend, Dr. Mark Bellows (Michael Douglas), who is reluctant to believe her suspicions of foul play.  The tension builds as Dr. Wheeler’s investigation leads her to a mysterious facility where she witnesses comatose bodies suspended on wires in a computer-controlled environment – and uncovers a chilling link to the black-market trade in human organs.

Before the film, Dr. Cook will discuss some of the medical and ethical issues portrayed in “Coma” and how those issues still resonate today.  Widely credited as the master of the medical thriller, Dr. Cook continues to dominate the category he helped create.  Since the publication of “Coma” in 1977, he has successfully combined medical fact with fiction to produce a succession of 27 New York Times bestsellers that have been translated into 40 languages. In addition to “Coma”, numerous feature films, television movies, and mini-series have been made from his work. 

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