Mark Brack… Happy New Year! You mentioned in an earlier comment the 70mm prints that you guys played at Manor East. How many of your three screens were equipped to play 70mm? I ask because of the titles you cited, “2010” and “Dune” were released only a week apart as were “Star Trek III” and “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.” Did you play these simultaneously or were some of them booked second-run?
I managed to ascertain the desired playdate details regarding “Amadeus” and, just as I suspected, it was a subsequent run commencing several months after the initial San Diego exclusive first-run at the Cinerama. This hdtv267 dude, consumed by his snarky attitude, no doubt thought the answer September 19th 1984 (because, you know, that’s what a five-second internet search yields when you misunderstand the question). Anyway, it appears the Chula Vista run commenced December 21st 1984 in 35mm with a mid-run switch to 70mm on January 25th 1985. If I did the math correctly, the run played 18 weeks in total.
The original “Star Wars” played here 30 weeks. That’s a lengthy run by any measure but nowhere near the year-and-a-half duration claimed by raylearchive on June 29, 2015. (The longest run of “Star Wars” in North Carolina was a 64-week run at Janus in Greensboro.)
I don’t see any evidence “Pink Floyd: The Wall” was promoted as a 70mm presentation during its September/October 1982 first-run engagement. What evidence do you possess, kucharsk, to suggest the advertising was faulty? Or is this nothing more than a case of misremembering?
Fifty years ago today the National held its invitational premiere grand opening. It’s disappointing the venue isn’t still with us to celebrate the milestone.
Do any Clevelanders know if the original Severance could run 70mm prints? (I know the 1980s expansion could; I’m asking about the original screen during the 1960s.)
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Can anyone familiar with Dallas confirm/recall if “The Hunt for Red October” (1990) played here first run? If it didn’t play this venue, which Dallas theater(s) had it? Any in 70mm?
bigjoe59: Regarding the New York roadshow houses you have been citing here and elsewhere, is there a reason you haven’t been including the Royale (Gigi), Sutton (The Blue Max), Coronet (The Taming of the Shrew), Fine Arts (The Charge of the Light Brigade), 57th Street Lincoln Art (The Lion in Winter), Ziegfeld (Marooned), or the Columbia (Young Winston)?
5TH AVENUE (Cinema Treasures Database Entry #2447)
The Ten Commandments
El Cid
Lawrence of Arabia
The Sound of Music
The Bible
Doctor Dolittle
Star!
Hello, Dolly!
BLUE MOUSE (#18183)
Oklahoma!
Around the World in 80 Days
South Pacific
The Big Fisherman
Ben-Hur
Exodus
King of Kings
Mutiny on the Bounty
Hawaii
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
CINERAMA (#360)
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
How the West Was Won
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
The Greatest Story Ever Told
The Hallelujah Trail
Battle of the Bulge
Russian Adventure
Khartoum
Grand Prix
Thoroughly Modern Millie
2001: A Space Odyssey
Ice Station Zebra
Song of Norway
MUSIC BOX (#2457)
Gigi
Spartacus
West Side Story
My Fair Lady
Doctor Zhivago
Camelot
Finian’s Rainbow
The Lion in Winter
Paint Your Wagon
PARAMOUNT (#237)
This is Cinerama
Cinerama Holiday
Seven Wonders of the World
Windjammer
The Diary of Anne Frank
Can-Can
Holiday in Spain
The Longest Day
Mediterranean Holiday
Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines
The Agony and the Ecstasy
The Blue Max
The Sand Pebbles
Gone with the Wind (’67 re-issue)
The Shoes of the Fisherman
Ben-Hur (’69 re-issue)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Sweet Charity
Patton
“Patton” premiered here at the Criterion 50 years ago today. And here is a new retro article celebrating the film which includes (North American) roadshow chronology and historian Q&A.
Here is the link to a new “Hello, Dolly!” 50th anniversary retro article featuring a historian Q&A and roadshow chronology (which includes mention of its North American record-length run at the Glenwood).
Here is the link to a new “Hello, Dolly!” 50th anniversary retro article featuring a historian Q&A and roadshow chronology (which, of course, includes mention of its lengthy run at the Chinese).
Fifty years ago today, George Lucas’s directorial debut, “THX 1138,” opened here (and Loews Cine).
Fifty years ago today, George Lucas’s directorial debut, “THX 1138,” opened here (and Loews Cine and State 2 in New York).
What was the surprise preview screened during the Syosset’s grand opening?
In what year did Factoria expand from five to eight screens?
Mark Brack… Happy New Year! You mentioned in an earlier comment the 70mm prints that you guys played at Manor East. How many of your three screens were equipped to play 70mm? I ask because of the titles you cited, “2010” and “Dune” were released only a week apart as were “Star Trek III” and “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.” Did you play these simultaneously or were some of them booked second-run?
I managed to ascertain the desired playdate details regarding “Amadeus” and, just as I suspected, it was a subsequent run commencing several months after the initial San Diego exclusive first-run at the Cinerama. This hdtv267 dude, consumed by his snarky attitude, no doubt thought the answer September 19th 1984 (because, you know, that’s what a five-second internet search yields when you misunderstand the question). Anyway, it appears the Chula Vista run commenced December 21st 1984 in 35mm with a mid-run switch to 70mm on January 25th 1985. If I did the math correctly, the run played 18 weeks in total.
The original “Star Wars” played here 30 weeks. That’s a lengthy run by any measure but nowhere near the year-and-a-half duration claimed by raylearchive on June 29, 2015. (The longest run of “Star Wars” in North Carolina was a 64-week run at Janus in Greensboro.)
I don’t see any evidence “Pink Floyd: The Wall” was promoted as a 70mm presentation during its September/October 1982 first-run engagement. What evidence do you possess, kucharsk, to suggest the advertising was faulty? Or is this nothing more than a case of misremembering?
Anyway, the reason I wish to sort this out is so the movie in question can be accurately included/excluded from my 70mm Presentations in Milwaukee and Pink Floyd: The 70mm Engagements articles.
Corrections are welcome, of course, but please be prepared to provide some reasonable evidence.
MrMarin and hdtv267: The theater depicted in the news report was the Coronet.
Hitchcock’s “Psycho” opened here (and the Baronet) sixty years ago today.
On a related note, here’s the link to a new 60th anniversary retrospective article which, of course, includes mention of a bunch of cinemas in which the film played.
According to local newspaper coverage, the Summit-Pandora’s June 1977 revival run of Kubrick’s “2001” actually played four weeks (not one).
When did “Amadeus” play here in 70mm? (It’s mentioned sans playdates in overview.)
When did “Pink Floyd: The Wall” play here in 70mm? (It’s mentioned sans playdates in overview.)
Fifty years ago today the National held its invitational premiere grand opening. It’s disappointing the venue isn’t still with us to celebrate the milestone.
Do any Clevelanders know if the original Severance could run 70mm prints? (I know the 1980s expansion could; I’m asking about the original screen during the 1960s.)
“Airport” opened its world premiere engagement here fifty years ago this month.
A 20-week run is considered short?
Can anyone familiar with Dallas confirm/recall if “The Hunt for Red October” (1990) played here first run? If it didn’t play this venue, which Dallas theater(s) had it? Any in 70mm?
Correct opening year is 1966 (not 1975).
The correct opening date is September 28th 1966.
bigjoe59: Regarding the New York roadshow houses you have been citing here and elsewhere, is there a reason you haven’t been including the Royale (Gigi), Sutton (The Blue Max), Coronet (The Taming of the Shrew), Fine Arts (The Charge of the Light Brigade), 57th Street Lincoln Art (The Lion in Winter), Ziegfeld (Marooned), or the Columbia (Young Winston)?
bigjoe59:
5TH AVENUE (Cinema Treasures Database Entry #2447)
The Ten Commandments
El Cid
Lawrence of Arabia
The Sound of Music
The Bible
Doctor Dolittle
Star!
Hello, Dolly!
BLUE MOUSE (#18183)
Oklahoma!
Around the World in 80 Days
South Pacific
The Big Fisherman
Ben-Hur
Exodus
King of Kings
Mutiny on the Bounty
Hawaii
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
BROADWAY (#11447)
Ulysses
BURIEN (#20408)
Ulysses
CINERAMA (#360)
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
How the West Was Won
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
The Greatest Story Ever Told
The Hallelujah Trail
Battle of the Bulge
Russian Adventure
Khartoum
Grand Prix
Thoroughly Modern Millie
2001: A Space Odyssey
Ice Station Zebra
Song of Norway
MAGNOLIA (#11358)
Oliver!
MUSIC BOX (#2457)
Gigi
Spartacus
West Side Story
My Fair Lady
Doctor Zhivago
Camelot
Finian’s Rainbow
The Lion in Winter
Paint Your Wagon
PARAMOUNT (#237)
This is Cinerama
Cinerama Holiday
Seven Wonders of the World
Windjammer
The Diary of Anne Frank
Can-Can
Holiday in Spain
The Longest Day
Mediterranean Holiday
Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines
The Agony and the Ecstasy
The Blue Max
The Sand Pebbles
Gone with the Wind (’67 re-issue)
The Shoes of the Fisherman
Ben-Hur (’69 re-issue)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Sweet Charity
Patton
RIDGEMONT (#2474)
Ulysses
UPTOWN (#3765)
Funny Girl
Fiddler on the Roof
Man of La Mancha
Last Tango in Paris
“Patton” premiered here at the Criterion 50 years ago today. And here is a new retro article celebrating the film which includes (North American) roadshow chronology and historian Q&A.
Here is the link to a new “Hello, Dolly!” 50th anniversary retro article featuring a historian Q&A and roadshow chronology (which includes mention of its North American record-length run at the Glenwood).
Here is the link to a new “Hello, Dolly!” 50th anniversary retro article featuring a historian Q&A and roadshow chronology (which, of course, includes mention of its lengthy run at the Chinese).