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bigjoe59 commented about AMC Lincoln Square 13 on Dec 27, 2018 at 3:47 pm

Hello-

to markp thanks for your reply other day. a two part follow up.

*during the 70MM engagement of Phantom Thread where were the brochures placed?

*also do you know of a website that will mention whatever became of a film that was never came out? as an example the Fall Movie section in a Sunday NYT this past Sept. listed films which never opened. in fact they were listed again in the Holiday Movie section the first Sunday in Nov. and gain never opened.

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bigjoe59 commented about AMC Lincoln Square 13 on Dec 25, 2018 at 3:24 pm

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first off Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all. okay here goes- how long did the rather nicely done brochure passed out at the 70MM engagement of Phantom Thread last? when I saw If Beale Street Could Talk opening day at the Angelika Film Center they were passing out a beautifully done brochure for the film that was so beautifully designed and printed they could have sold it has a souvenir program.

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bigjoe59 commented about Embassy 1,2,3 Theatre on Dec 25, 2018 at 3:16 pm

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a question pertaining to the ad on photo pg.1 for the continuous performance engagement of Oklahoma. was the film shot with a Todd-AO camera side by side with a Cinemascope camera? or was the film shot once in Todd-AO and then reshot in Cinemascope?

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bigjoe59 commented about AMC Lincoln Square 13 on Dec 16, 2018 at 5:08 pm

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this past weekend If Beale Street Could Talk opened here and at the Angelika. the Angelika was passing out a freebie brochure that was so well done it amounted to a souvenir program. did this theater pass it out as well?

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bigjoe59 commented about AMC Lincoln Square 13 on Dec 10, 2018 at 6:47 pm

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thanks to Peter A. for his reply. I greatly enjoyed the film but saw it at the Loews 19 St. so watching it on Blu-ray the switching wasn’t of putting just odd. to which why wasn’t the entire film shot in IMAX?

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bigjoe59 commented about AMC Lincoln Square 13 on Dec 10, 2018 at 6:47 pm

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thanks to Peter A. for his reply. I greatly enjoyed the film but saw it at the Loews 19 St. so watching it on Blu-ray the switching wasn’t of putting just odd. to which why wasn’t the entire film shot in IMAX?

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bigjoe59 commented about AMC Lincoln Square 13 on Dec 10, 2018 at 4:45 pm

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a question for people who saw Mission Impossible:Fallout at this theater’s IMAX auditorium this past summer. i just watched the blu-ray disc released last week and something odd happened that i had never seen before on a blu-ray disc. thru out the course of the film’s 2hrs. 27mins. the aspect ratio kept changing. it switched from the 2.35.1 ratio to filling the entire screen of my 39" 1080p LED t.v.. was that the way it was shown here?

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bigjoe59 commented about Paris Theater on Dec 9, 2018 at 6:01 pm

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it was more convenient for me to see MQOS at the Amgelika Film Center yesterday Sat. 12/8. they were passing out a rather nicely done brochure for the film. did this theater have it as well?

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bigjoe59 commented about AMC Lincoln Square 13 on Nov 5, 2018 at 2:27 pm

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I greatly enjoyed the recent remake of IT but the bells and whistles and added cost of Union Square’s 4DX theater weren’t really necessary to fully enjoy the film. also why can’t regular auditoriums have perfect projection ad sound? isn’t that what the patrons are paying for?

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bigjoe59 commented about AMC Lincoln Square 13 on Nov 5, 2018 at 1:17 pm

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I think its simply more bells and whistles that doesn’t really improve your appreciation of the film. case in point. when IT opened last year I decided to go to the Regal Union Square to see it. the screening I chose happened to be in the 4DX auditorium. it was expensive but I paid anyway. the 4DX bells and whistles didn’t make me enjoy the film any more than if I had seen it on a regular screen.

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bigjoe59 commented about AMC Lincoln Square 13 on Nov 5, 2018 at 12:25 pm

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this may be a silly question to asks at this point but what exactly was the point of turning the Loew’s auditorium into a Dolby Cinema other than to extract more $$$ from the public?

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bigjoe59 commented about Balboa Theatre on Nov 4, 2018 at 5:10 pm

Hello from NYC-

when The Sound of Music moved to this theater after its roadshow at the United Artist and after Doctor Zhivago moved here after its roadshow run at the Orpheum were they the original roadshow prints? in NYC when a film went to neighborhood theaters following roadshow runs they were often tweaked.

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bigjoe59 commented about AMC Lincoln Square 13 on Oct 27, 2018 at 11:40 am

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what does Lincoln Square’s new Dolby Theater have in comparison to Regal’s Union Square 4DX Theater to justify the high price increase?

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bigjoe59 commented about AMC Lincoln Square 13 on Oct 26, 2018 at 4:34 pm

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a recent post mentions that the price for a ticket for the new Dolby Theater is $3 more than at Empire 42 St. is the extra $$$ really worth it?

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bigjoe59 commented about Parkside Theatre on Oct 23, 2018 at 3:54 pm

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thanks to MSC77 for the info. I did in fact mean the time period of the Sept. 1952 roadshow engagement of This Is Cinerama to the Dec. 1972 roadshow engagement of Man of La Mancha. now this theater only held three that you are aware of but there were countless other roadshow engagements in S.F. as there were in Manhattan. so what theaters were used on a regular basis for roadshow engagements in S.F. during the approx. 20 year period noted. thanks in advance.

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bigjoe59 commented about Parkside Theatre on Oct 21, 2018 at 3:35 pm

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during the heyday of roadshow engagements how many did this
theater have?

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bigjoe59 commented about Plaza Grill & Cinema on Oct 19, 2018 at 5:00 pm

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if the cinema didn’t open till 1907 how can it be deemed the oldest operating purpose built cinema? the building wasn’t purpose built as a cinema. said cinema was built within a pre-existing structure.

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bigjoe59 commented about AMC Lincoln Square 13 on Oct 18, 2018 at 5:26 pm

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i hope my fellow moviegoers can help with a question. when the Harvey Weinstein scandal hit just a year ago whatever Weinstein Company Oscar Bait films that were set to open between then and Dec. 31 never opened. and have apparently vanished into thin air. i was especially looking forward to The Current War with Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Shannon and Nicholas Hoult. the film was originally set to open Nov. 2017 but has yet to appear. where are all the Weinstein Company films that were going to be released last fall 201? have they vanished into thin air never to be seen again? thanks for any info.

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bigjoe59 commented about Sutton Theater on Oct 15, 2018 at 3:08 pm

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to NYer thanks for the info.

also the Sutton wasn’t the only East Side “art house”
to host a roadshow engagement. the Coronet had The Taming
of the Shrew and the Fine Arts has three-A Man for All
Seasons, The Charge of the Light Brigade and The Trojan
Women.

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bigjoe59 commented about Sutton Theater on Oct 14, 2018 at 4:52 pm

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the last several years of the theater’s life it ran as a twin. to which- what was the last film to play it as a single screen theater?

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bigjoe59 commented about AMC Lincoln Square 13 on Oct 8, 2018 at 5:13 pm

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I would appreciate it if someone could explain something to me. Venom got very mixed reviews at leas the reviews I read yet it had a decent opening weekend. now Green Lantern and the Fantastic 4 reboot got rather mixed reviews and the box office was accordingly not very impressive. I assume this occurred because even people who were looking forward to the films paid attention to the reviews and decided not to go. so why would Venom which got equally mixed reviews have a decent opening weekend?

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bigjoe59 commented about AMC Lincoln Square 13 on Oct 7, 2018 at 6:07 pm

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I thank xbs2034 for their reply but it doesn’t answer my question- how can an warts and all bio pic of Mercury and Queen be any good or one might say truthful with a PG-13 rating?

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bigjoe59 commented about AMC Lincoln Square 13 on Oct 7, 2018 at 3:01 pm

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has anyone heard anything about Bohemian Rhapsody? the reason i ask is simple. i saw the trailer this past weekend and no way can a warts and all bio pic about Mercury and the founding of Queen be any good with a PG-13 rating.

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bigjoe59 commented about Cinerama Hollywood on Sep 19, 2018 at 4:21 pm

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thanks to Peter A. again for his reply. as you state HTWWW
has been available on home video(vhs,dvd,blu-ray) since the dawn of the home video market. now the only time TWWOTBG has ever been issued on home video is a vhs from MGM Home Video at the advent of the home video revolution which has been long been out f print. so what would they have used to strike(if that’s the correct term)the vhs from approx. 30? years ago if
as you say the original camera negative has water damage.

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bigjoe59 commented about Cinerama Hollywood on Sep 18, 2018 at 3:46 pm

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thanks to Peter A. for his reply. if I understand your reply correctly Warner Bros. Hone Video which has home video rights to all of MGM’s roadshow epics wouldn’t want to spend the necessary $$$ to restore Grimm. but didn’t they do an extensive restoration/remastering of HTWWW before they released the Blu-ray disc Oct. 2008?