This is exactly what I was afraid of. And I feel responsible.
Dear Webmasters: Since you quickly granted Howard’s request to remove Vito’s post, I’d like to ask you for a favor too – to do and say whatever you can to settle this problem very soon.
Howard: sure there are movie blogs, all over the place, but none of them had any reviews of that particular movie, including the one you gave a link to. I’m sure today there are reviews everywhere, but before today there were none and Vito’s was the first I’d seen, at 10 AM this morning. It was a true Cinema Treasures exclusive, a scoop if you will, and didn’t deserve to be erased.
It’s funny – the kind of personal posts LuisV describes clutter up the Ridgewood page, too many to even deal with. And yet this morning, an actual movie business professional posts the very first opinion I’ve been able to find on the Internet (and believe me, I’ve been looking) of an eagerly awaited major motion picture – albeit a negative opinion – and in a matter of minutes it’s wiped off the page like it never existed.
Howard, you don’t happen to be an executive at 20th Century-Fox, do you? :)
But there are always exceptions, right? I gave the reason up above as to why Vito posted what he did on this page. As far as I’m concerned, guys like Vito and REndres are HUMAN cinema treasures, and anything they have to say is something I’d want to hear.
To cite the worst example of what Jeff is referring to, the page for the Ridgewood Theater in Queens has literally hundreds of off-topic posts, many of them nothing to do with movies at all. I don’t think any of them have ever been deleted.
Was it something I said that caused the last few posts to be removed? That never happened to me before on CT and I feel bad about it. Please let me know what I did so I won’t do it again.
This past Sunday, my 79-year-old mom saw her first Radio City Christmas show since the one that accompanied MGM’s “Kim” in 1950-51. She loved every minute of it. What a great holiday tradition – long may it continue!
I haven’t seen one since 1970 myself (with “A Boy Named Charlie Brown”). Maybe I should go too.
After listening to the commentary and watching the documentary, it seems like more future filmmakers were inspired to enter the business after seeing “The 7th Voyage of Sinbad” than from any other movie since “Citizen Kane”.
The Blu-Ray image is so beautiful, I’d say it hasn’t looked that good since it played the Roxy (without actually having seen it at the Roxy, unfortunately).
I just finished watching “The 7th Voyage of Sinbad” on Blu-Ray, and am listening to the audio commentary right now. It may have been a low-budget swashbuckler, but it’s still one of the most wonderful movies ever made. Everything about it is memorable, most especially Ray Harryhausen’s visual effects and Bernard Herrmann’s music. It’s been dearly loved and remembered for 50 years now, long after many expensive A-pictures of its time (like “Rally Round the Flag Boys”) have been almost completely forgotten.
The Montreal hype entries certainly outdo most of the ones they came up with in the United States. They really “got” Cinerama up there! My favorite: “Thanks to Cinerama you have three eyes and seven ears”.
Funny how “2001” played in Montreal for only 24 weeks (“only” – a relative term), while it played in Toronto for more than two years.
I don’t care how many Oscars the 1997 Cameron version won or how much money it made: “A Night to Remember” is the best-ever cinematic telling of the story of the Titanic. Even James Cameron knows this is true. Thanks for the ad, Warren – a very distinctive one, too, befitting the movie.
Gerald, I think you’re right. At least that’s the only film with that title I could find on the Internet Movie Database. As for “Birth of Triplets”, that didn’t show up on there at all!
The “Never on Sunday” ad in “61 also has an Adult tag (… "PLEASE! Don’t Bring Children!”)
I’d say they were being exploitative. The Adults Only tag sure looks enticing and probably lured many people into the theater, especially back in 1961. I’m surprised the ad for “La Dolce Vita” at the Bellevue didn’t use it also.
Talking about exploitative: check out this one for “Birth of Triplets” in 1969:
Notice how two live productions of “Half a Sixpence” were playing in the same area at the same time. Fans of the play and movie “The Boys in the Band” will recognize Kenneth Nelson in the Paper Mill ad – he played Michael in “Boys” and had the biggest role.
I finally saw the side wall of the Queen Anne today, after all these years.
When it was still an art house in 1969, two days before Apollo XI landed on the moon, the Queen Anne was showing this Oscar-winning class act. I don’t think I agree with what it says in the small print on the bottom, though:
WOW! It sure didn’t look like that when I saw Rodney Dangerfield in “Easy Money” there in 1983. The fourplexing looked like a lot of sheetrock put up inside the shell of the theater, covering up the glorious interior which I’m seeing for the first time in this photo.
What were they thinking back then? Anyway, we should just be grateful that the theater has been restored. If they ever show movies again, I’m there.
When the Ziegfeld in NY showed “Goldfinger” in digital last year, I sat in the front row and was pleasantly surprised at how good it looked. I was expecting to see pixelation all over the place, and there was none. Since Justin had a problem, I guess it depends on the theater and the equipment.
This is exactly what I was afraid of. And I feel responsible.
Dear Webmasters: Since you quickly granted Howard’s request to remove Vito’s post, I’d like to ask you for a favor too – to do and say whatever you can to settle this problem very soon.
We can’t lose Vito!
Howard: sure there are movie blogs, all over the place, but none of them had any reviews of that particular movie, including the one you gave a link to. I’m sure today there are reviews everywhere, but before today there were none and Vito’s was the first I’d seen, at 10 AM this morning. It was a true Cinema Treasures exclusive, a scoop if you will, and didn’t deserve to be erased.
It’s funny – the kind of personal posts LuisV describes clutter up the Ridgewood page, too many to even deal with. And yet this morning, an actual movie business professional posts the very first opinion I’ve been able to find on the Internet (and believe me, I’ve been looking) of an eagerly awaited major motion picture – albeit a negative opinion – and in a matter of minutes it’s wiped off the page like it never existed.
Howard, you don’t happen to be an executive at 20th Century-Fox, do you? :)
But there are always exceptions, right? I gave the reason up above as to why Vito posted what he did on this page. As far as I’m concerned, guys like Vito and REndres are HUMAN cinema treasures, and anything they have to say is something I’d want to hear.
To cite the worst example of what Jeff is referring to, the page for the Ridgewood Theater in Queens has literally hundreds of off-topic posts, many of them nothing to do with movies at all. I don’t think any of them have ever been deleted.
Oh wait … to make sure my post about the new “Cleopatra” doesn’t get deleted, I hope it plays at the Ziegfeld.
Sorry … couldn’t resist :)
I hear Soderbergh’s next project will be a remake of “Cleopatra”! I guess he’s been bitten by the extremely-long-movie bug.
In fairness to Vito, I started all this by posting this here last month:
I hope “The Day the Earth Stood Still ” is the Christmas attraction at the Ziegfeld. Maybe I’ll find out tomorrow.
posted by Bill Huelbig on Nov 19, 2008 at 7:43am
… which is why Vito posted his opinion of the movie on this page.
Vito: After I see the movie on Friday at Lincoln Square, I’ll post my opinion of it there and we’ll see if I agree with you :)
Vito: if you e-mail me at the above address I’ll let you know what happened. Sorry about all this non-Ziegfeld stuff.
Was it something I said that caused the last few posts to be removed? That never happened to me before on CT and I feel bad about it. Please let me know what I did so I won’t do it again.
Thanks.
This past Sunday, my 79-year-old mom saw her first Radio City Christmas show since the one that accompanied MGM’s “Kim” in 1950-51. She loved every minute of it. What a great holiday tradition – long may it continue!
I haven’t seen one since 1970 myself (with “A Boy Named Charlie Brown”). Maybe I should go too.
After listening to the commentary and watching the documentary, it seems like more future filmmakers were inspired to enter the business after seeing “The 7th Voyage of Sinbad” than from any other movie since “Citizen Kane”.
The Blu-Ray image is so beautiful, I’d say it hasn’t looked that good since it played the Roxy (without actually having seen it at the Roxy, unfortunately).
I just finished watching “The 7th Voyage of Sinbad” on Blu-Ray, and am listening to the audio commentary right now. It may have been a low-budget swashbuckler, but it’s still one of the most wonderful movies ever made. Everything about it is memorable, most especially Ray Harryhausen’s visual effects and Bernard Herrmann’s music. It’s been dearly loved and remembered for 50 years now, long after many expensive A-pictures of its time (like “Rally Round the Flag Boys”) have been almost completely forgotten.
The Montreal hype entries certainly outdo most of the ones they came up with in the United States. They really “got” Cinerama up there! My favorite: “Thanks to Cinerama you have three eyes and seven ears”.
Funny how “2001” played in Montreal for only 24 weeks (“only” – a relative term), while it played in Toronto for more than two years.
I don’t care how many Oscars the 1997 Cameron version won or how much money it made: “A Night to Remember” is the best-ever cinematic telling of the story of the Titanic. Even James Cameron knows this is true. Thanks for the ad, Warren – a very distinctive one, too, befitting the movie.
“You’ll Gasp – You’ll Wince – You’ll Shudder” – what a great sleazy ad!
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Notice it’s playing only in drive-ins, where any kid in a passing car could see the gasp-inducing shock scenes if they pass at the right time :)
Gerald, I think you’re right. At least that’s the only film with that title I could find on the Internet Movie Database. As for “Birth of Triplets”, that didn’t show up on there at all!
The “Never on Sunday” ad in “61 also has an Adult tag (… "PLEASE! Don’t Bring Children!”)
I’d say they were being exploitative. The Adults Only tag sure looks enticing and probably lured many people into the theater, especially back in 1961. I’m surprised the ad for “La Dolce Vita” at the Bellevue didn’t use it also.
Talking about exploitative: check out this one for “Birth of Triplets” in 1969:
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“You’ll Gasp – You’ll Wince – You’ll Shudder”. I can’t tell ya how much I miss movie ads like this.
Even back in 1961, the Queen Anne showed Adults Only fare:
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Was this theater known as UA Cinema in 1967? If so, here are two ads for it:
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Notice how two live productions of “Half a Sixpence” were playing in the same area at the same time. Fans of the play and movie “The Boys in the Band” will recognize Kenneth Nelson in the Paper Mill ad – he played Michael in “Boys” and had the biggest role.
1967: an exciting announcement for Palace Theater patrons:
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I finally saw the side wall of the Queen Anne today, after all these years.
When it was still an art house in 1969, two days before Apollo XI landed on the moon, the Queen Anne was showing this Oscar-winning class act. I don’t think I agree with what it says in the small print on the bottom, though:
View link
WOW! It sure didn’t look like that when I saw Rodney Dangerfield in “Easy Money” there in 1983. The fourplexing looked like a lot of sheetrock put up inside the shell of the theater, covering up the glorious interior which I’m seeing for the first time in this photo.
What were they thinking back then? Anyway, we should just be grateful that the theater has been restored. If they ever show movies again, I’m there.
Correction: that “Goldfinger” show was in April of this year, 2008. Time is going by so fast …
When the Ziegfeld in NY showed “Goldfinger” in digital last year, I sat in the front row and was pleasantly surprised at how good it looked. I was expecting to see pixelation all over the place, and there was none. Since Justin had a problem, I guess it depends on the theater and the equipment.