Exactly, William. And with studios wanting to shorten even further the window between theatrical and DVD release, the days of the exclusive run are over. By making everything a saturation release, they’ve diluted the value of the product.
While I don’t know of any current standard installations using dual-digital projection, I do know that Radio City used a temporary setup of two stacked DLP units when they ran a preview showing for an HBO film a few years ago. The two projectors were aligned together on the screen to boost the brightness.
While I don’t know of any current standard installations using dual-digital projection, I do know that Radio City used a temporary setup of two stacked DLP units when they ran a preview showing for an HBO film a few years ago. The two projectors were aligned together on the screen to boost the brightness (as an aside, the show ended up being cancelled in progress when the digital server went down and they had no backup).
What is “traditional anaglyph 3D”? Aside from those two awful Robert Rodriguez films – Spy Kids and Shark Girl – and a couple of one-off oddballs and two Universal reissues, all theatrical 3-D releases have been polarized. I realize it’s marketing department double-speak, but it’s annoyingly inaccurate.
Thanks, Bill. According to that info, the Rivoli’s curved screen was 50-feet wide (66' along the arc). When I last walked off the Ziegfeld’s screen, it was between 45-50'.
That’s quite a bit more that it was getting as a theatre – it was asking around $15,000-$20,000 a month plus taxes, IIRC, which was still way too much for it to survive.
The season opens this Saturday – March 10 – at 11:30am with Shirley Temple in The Little Princess, presented in 35mm dye-transfer IB Technicolor!
Here is the complete schedule for the spring:
March 10 – The Little Princess starring Shirley Temple, in Technicolor
March 17 – High Sierra starring Humphrey Bogart & Ida Lupino
March 24 – Sullivan’s Travels starring Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake
March 31 – Boy’s Town starring Spencer Tracey & Mickey Rooney
April 7 – The Wizard of Oz, starring Judy Garland, presented in Technicolor
April 14 – A Night to Remember starring Kenneth More & Honor Blackman
April 21 – White Heat starring James Cagney & Edmund O'Brien
April 28 – The Thief of Bagdad starring Conrad Veidt & Sabu
May 5 – The Cameraman starring Buster Keaton, this silent comedy classic will have live Pipe Organ accompaniment by Jeff Barker
May 12 – Follow the Fleet starring Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers
May 19 – Howard Hawks' Scarface (1932) starring Paul Muni, George Raft, & Ann Dvorak
May 26 – Monkey Business starring The Four Marx Brothers
June 2 – Alfred Hitchcock’s Saboteur starring Robert Cummings & Priscilla Lane
June 9 – Mister Roberts starring Henry Fonda, Jack Lemmon, James Cagney, William Powell, presented in CinemaScope
June 16 – The Looney Tunes & Comedy Festival featuring classic cartoons & other comic delights…
Regarding your 1/5/07 posting about Beatlemania. It opened theatrically in late-July 1981 in the New York area (don’t know how many theatres, but it wasn’t very many). I saw it at the tiny Rockaway Inner 6 in Rockaway, New Jersey. The Sylvester Stallone film “Victory” was playing in the auditorium next to it and I could sporadically hear portions of that film through the paper-thin walls.
Even if the Rockaway 16 had 70mm it would do no good as there are no new films being made or presented in that process. Michael’s articles about 70mm in New York are fascinatiing reading for anyone who grew up in this area.
No. When the RKO Twin in Wayne first opened in the early 70s, several engagements were the same film on both sides, with start times every hour (or as running time permitted). I remember being confused as a kid by it, thinking that the movie they were showing was only an hour long :)
Yes, Vito. Kubrick made sure that the premiere engagements of Barry Lyndon were projected in 1.66 – that and various other exhibition stories are recounted in some of the biogrpahies about him.
O'Neal is excellent in Barry Lyndon, which is still underrated as one of the greatest films of the 1970s. I’d love to see a new print of that one someday.
It’s a matter of what the studio sends. I’ve played GWTW twice at the Lafayette and, even though my booking was confirmed to receive an A+ special reel-to-reel only print, we received a less-desirable normal print from the 1999 re-issue. There are newer prints out there, I would imagine the LJ team is requesting the best print that Warner’s has of the movie. I’m sure that Mitchell/MBD will update as to the condition when they get it in.
When we were at the Paradise last spring I seem to remember that the proscenium measured out at about 50-55 feet, pretty much the same as the Jersey’s.
The Senator has considerable financial troubles. As has the Ziegfeld.
Exactly, William. And with studios wanting to shorten even further the window between theatrical and DVD release, the days of the exclusive run are over. By making everything a saturation release, they’ve diluted the value of the product.
It’s a good caption – we’ve been using it for 5 years at the Lafayette Theatre’s Big Screen Classics shows.
Exactly – so he saw the film in the future? :)
chersfan –
The Sparta Theatre has been closed since last May. Perhaps you saw Zodiac in another city?
Vito:
While I don’t know of any current standard installations using dual-digital projection, I do know that Radio City used a temporary setup of two stacked DLP units when they ran a preview showing for an HBO film a few years ago. The two projectors were aligned together on the screen to boost the brightness.
Vito:
While I don’t know of any current standard installations using dual-digital projection, I do know that Radio City used a temporary setup of two stacked DLP units when they ran a preview showing for an HBO film a few years ago. The two projectors were aligned together on the screen to boost the brightness (as an aside, the show ended up being cancelled in progress when the digital server went down and they had no backup).
Cinema 12 in Parsippany is down almost 40% and Cinema 10 in Succasunna is down almost 25% since Rockaway opened.
I’ll check it out to satisfy my curiosity over the Real-D format. I wasn’t impressed with Chicken Little, so I’m hoping they’ve improved it.
What is “traditional anaglyph 3D”? Aside from those two awful Robert Rodriguez films – Spy Kids and Shark Girl – and a couple of one-off oddballs and two Universal reissues, all theatrical 3-D releases have been polarized. I realize it’s marketing department double-speak, but it’s annoyingly inaccurate.
Thanks, Bill. According to that info, the Rivoli’s curved screen was 50-feet wide (66' along the arc). When I last walked off the Ziegfeld’s screen, it was between 45-50'.
How’d they “fix” the Warner and Rivoli? I was never in them, so I don’t know how they enlarged their prosceniums.
That’s quite a bit more that it was getting as a theatre – it was asking around $15,000-$20,000 a month plus taxes, IIRC, which was still way too much for it to survive.
The season opens this Saturday – March 10 – at 11:30am with Shirley Temple in The Little Princess, presented in 35mm dye-transfer IB Technicolor!
Here is the complete schedule for the spring:
March 10 – The Little Princess starring Shirley Temple, in Technicolor
March 17 – High Sierra starring Humphrey Bogart & Ida Lupino
March 24 – Sullivan’s Travels starring Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake
March 31 – Boy’s Town starring Spencer Tracey & Mickey Rooney
April 7 – The Wizard of Oz, starring Judy Garland, presented in Technicolor
April 14 – A Night to Remember starring Kenneth More & Honor Blackman
April 21 – White Heat starring James Cagney & Edmund O'Brien
April 28 – The Thief of Bagdad starring Conrad Veidt & Sabu
May 5 – The Cameraman starring Buster Keaton, this silent comedy classic will have live Pipe Organ accompaniment by Jeff Barker
May 12 – Follow the Fleet starring Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers
May 19 – Howard Hawks' Scarface (1932) starring Paul Muni, George Raft, & Ann Dvorak
May 26 – Monkey Business starring The Four Marx Brothers
June 2 – Alfred Hitchcock’s Saboteur starring Robert Cummings & Priscilla Lane
June 9 – Mister Roberts starring Henry Fonda, Jack Lemmon, James Cagney, William Powell, presented in CinemaScope
June 16 – The Looney Tunes & Comedy Festival featuring classic cartoons & other comic delights…
G. Feret:
Regarding your 1/5/07 posting about Beatlemania. It opened theatrically in late-July 1981 in the New York area (don’t know how many theatres, but it wasn’t very many). I saw it at the tiny Rockaway Inner 6 in Rockaway, New Jersey. The Sylvester Stallone film “Victory” was playing in the auditorium next to it and I could sporadically hear portions of that film through the paper-thin walls.
Justin –
Even if the Rockaway 16 had 70mm it would do no good as there are no new films being made or presented in that process. Michael’s articles about 70mm in New York are fascinatiing reading for anyone who grew up in this area.
35 millimeters :)
Seriously, 70mm offered a much larger film area than 35mm and looked stunning on a large screen. Go to www.widescreenmuseum.com and read up on it.
No. When the RKO Twin in Wayne first opened in the early 70s, several engagements were the same film on both sides, with start times every hour (or as running time permitted). I remember being confused as a kid by it, thinking that the movie they were showing was only an hour long :)
My favorite Jane Russell/French Line ad tag: “She’ll knock BOTH your eyes out!”
Yes, Vito. Kubrick made sure that the premiere engagements of Barry Lyndon were projected in 1.66 – that and various other exhibition stories are recounted in some of the biogrpahies about him.
Correct, no question about it, Ryan O'Neal is excellent in Barry Lyndon.
Maybe this “O'Neil” fellow you speak of is no good, but I don’t remember him in the film :)
O'Neal is excellent in Barry Lyndon, which is still underrated as one of the greatest films of the 1970s. I’d love to see a new print of that one someday.
It’s a matter of what the studio sends. I’ve played GWTW twice at the Lafayette and, even though my booking was confirmed to receive an A+ special reel-to-reel only print, we received a less-desirable normal print from the 1999 re-issue. There are newer prints out there, I would imagine the LJ team is requesting the best print that Warner’s has of the movie. I’m sure that Mitchell/MBD will update as to the condition when they get it in.
Bob –
When we were at the Paradise last spring I seem to remember that the proscenium measured out at about 50-55 feet, pretty much the same as the Jersey’s.
The two organs are being uninstalled and should eventually find new homes.