The seats were very steeply tiered and there was not much leg room. The screen was very large an the curtain was beautiful. The 70mm did not get much use in the late 1970’s and 1980’s but the big 70mm event I attended was the first session of the first day of the release of the first Star Wars movie. That was a good day.
This was one of the best of the “modern” cinemas in Brisbane. A large screen, stalls and dress circle and many 70mm released. It never recovered from being twinned. That was vandalism.
The destruction of the Regent is an absolute disgrace. As someone who has a memories of regular cinema attendance in Brisbane and Sydney sin 1960 (when I saw Cinerama Holiday in Cinerama at the Sydney Plaza) many cinemas were not the crash hot – small screens bad design (I certainly would not put the Plaza in that category – that cinema was stunning) . Clearly the Regent was a treasure but it seems that South Australia considered it too modern. Funny since it was also designed for live performances we destroy it and yet we have a shortage of live venue space in the city (Her Majesties will be out of action for a long time) .Would be great if the Regent could be resurrected especially with big film format films such as Dunkirk, Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile being released.
Whatever happened to the 70mm projector .could still use it with the recent “Murder on the Orient Express” and next year’s “Death on the Nile”. Would have loved for the original single screen theatre to still be there.
The seats were very steeply tiered and there was not much leg room. The screen was very large an the curtain was beautiful. The 70mm did not get much use in the late 1970’s and 1980’s but the big 70mm event I attended was the first session of the first day of the release of the first Star Wars movie. That was a good day.
This was one of the best of the “modern” cinemas in Brisbane. A large screen, stalls and dress circle and many 70mm released. It never recovered from being twinned. That was vandalism.
The destruction of the Regent is an absolute disgrace. As someone who has a memories of regular cinema attendance in Brisbane and Sydney sin 1960 (when I saw Cinerama Holiday in Cinerama at the Sydney Plaza) many cinemas were not the crash hot – small screens bad design (I certainly would not put the Plaza in that category – that cinema was stunning) . Clearly the Regent was a treasure but it seems that South Australia considered it too modern. Funny since it was also designed for live performances we destroy it and yet we have a shortage of live venue space in the city (Her Majesties will be out of action for a long time) .Would be great if the Regent could be resurrected especially with big film format films such as Dunkirk, Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile being released.
Does anyone know how big the screen was. In theo ry it should have been large as it was build especially for a 70mm release.
Whatever happened to the 70mm projector .could still use it with the recent “Murder on the Orient Express” and next year’s “Death on the Nile”. Would have loved for the original single screen theatre to still be there.