Ridgewood Theatre
55-27 Myrtle Avenue,
Ridgewood,
NY
11385
55-27 Myrtle Avenue,
Ridgewood,
NY
11385
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Thanks for the lowdown, JKane.
What about “Dementia 13” as a Coppola “masterpiece” ?
I’ve seen ‘The Playgirls and the Bellboy,’ an awful German import to which FFC added equally awful new scenes, on VHS and you will not get a Coppola laughs out of it, believe me. Both that and his dreadful ‘nudie-cutie’ ‘Tonight for Sure’ are strictly Francis Ford Crapola. You should get a Coppola laughs from his much better ‘You’re a Big Boy Now,’ which, while some bits seem dated, is still pretty funny today.
Thanks for the humor, guys.
Fella’s let us not forget the 1962 comedy flick ‘The Playgirls and the Bellboy’ directed by Francis Ford Coppola. I have not seen it available on DVD. Perhap’s someone has.
“… a Coppola laffs.”
LMAO! Rimshot revoked. Wished I’d thought of that one, Ed!
As beautiful as Morricone’s scores have been (“Once Upon a Time in the West” might be my favorite), I think Coppola did OK on the Godfather films with Nino Rota.
Hey B'klyn Jim… You should have ended that last post “…it got a Coppola laffs.”
Rimshot.
No?
OK.
Fuhgedaboudit.
Thanks, Jim, very good, spoken like a true Neapolitan !
Or is it Sicilian ?
True, how could Eastwood NOT translate, joined at the hip to Morricone as he has been, now going on five decades.
Yes, Coppola can go sleep with the Kraken.
Yeah, 25 Feb 07, Peter.
We watched the awards at a party held at the home of one of SoCal’s noted playrights. Everyone seemed stunned that Clint Eastwood was able to translate Morricone’s acceptance speech. Why? Not odd at all, considering how many spaghetti westerns he made way back when. He hadda order lunch sometime.
When folks asked me how accurate Clint’s translation was, I said that he was cleaning it up for Ennio. What Morricone actually said was: “P-tui on Coppola. He no hire me to score ‘The Godfather.’ He should-a sleep with the calamari!”
Scorcese knew. (Spielberg didn’t.) LOL. Anyway, it got a coupla laffs.
[No PC from dat wiseguy Jimmy from Brook-e-ling!]
Thanks for this info, BklynJim. Was that the most recent Oscar presentation ?
Next : Pino Donaggio for “Carrie”, “The Howling”, etc.
… and when movie composer Ennio Morricone (“The Good, the Bad & the Ugly” + 400 more, including all those linguine westerns, plus his perpetual Italian grammar and diction lessons for his American cumpare, old “No Accent” Clint E. hisself) boldly hoisted his Oscar statuette for Lifetime Achievement, he was heard to exclaim, “Ebay, domani!”
Morte viene dallo spazio, La (1958)
Now THAT’s Italian !
It’s what I got when I typed ‘The Day The Sky Exploded’ into the IMDb.
Ciao, shalom, l'chaim and excelsior.
Forty years ago today at the Ridgewood Theater :
“Hombre”, Paul Newman as the blue-eyed Jewish Indian …
I sometimes have lunch at a restaurant called Spaghetti Western near my place of work in downtown Manhattan NYC …
mikemovies, I’m glad you liked my description. No, I haven’t seen ‘The Day The Sky Exploded’(1958). Reads interesting. Please tell me about it once you’ve seen it. Thanks.
How about Tom Cruise and Clint Eastwood in “Exploding Spaghetti Sky”, directed by Sergio Leone, music by Enio Morricone and Hugh Montenegro ?
NOW PLAYING AT THE RIDGEWOOD THEATER !!!!!
I’ve heard of spaghetti westerns but not spaghetti sci fi, but, hey, why not ?
haha you described the correct movie. The aliens have ping pong ball eye’s. The device used to close Peter Graves chest look similar to welding torch’s without a flame. Very silly by today’s standard. My next DVD order will include ‘The Day The Sky Exploded’ 1958. A spaghetti scifi flick. Has anyone seen this movie.
OK, Gojira (1984) was the original Japanese release of Godzilla 1985 (USA) with Raymond Burr added. History repeats itself.
I think Zacherle got booted off TV for showing his dirty bare feet on camera, or something equally silly. I remember him having a head of cauliflower with wires stuck into it, in a tank, and him saying it was really someone’s brain.
I also remember him hosting “Hercules” cartoons in 1963 (the ones with the centaur named Newton) and introducing a commercial for a toy called “Bop The Beetle” (he called it “a new craze that was sweeping the country”).
Thanks, mikemovies.
I remember “Killers From Space” from Chiller Theater on WPIX, hosted by Zacherle, on in early 1970, and before. The bug-eyed, black-hooded, cumberbunded Marty Feldman-esque aliens are seen underground closing up Peter Graves' chest with what look like electrodes or soldering irons. When they show him an equation, Zacherle interposes a view of a scrap of paper on which is written 2 + 2 = 5.
There is talk of an electron bridge between their world and ours, and a rear projection view of a lizard blown up to dinosaur size. Also some sparking Frankenstein-esque electrodes. These scenes are in the opening title sequence of the original Chiller Theater, along with scenes from “The Cyclops”, “The Gorilla”, “She Demons”, “The Cyclops”, “Plan Nine From Outer Space” and “Attack Of The 50 Foot Woman”.
Enjoy “Killers From Space”, free of MST 3000 kibbitzing. It mocks itself. It doesn’t need MST 3000 to make fun of it.
Thanks for the link to Gojira (1984). Domo arigato, syanara.
Fella’s I scored a copy of ‘Killers from Space’ 1954 starring Peter Graves. He play’s a scientist who die’s in a plane crash but is brought back to life by aliens. The alien’s want Peter Graves to get them nuclear secrets so they can conquer the world. The DVD is released by Alpha video so you know the quality is terrible. Still a cool movie to watch.
PKoch on the IMDB website you can read about Gojira (1984). http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087344/
I’m glad I jogged your memory, Bway. I don’t remember much about the inside. I think it was a triplex, two down and one up, but am not sure.
Peter, I totally forgot about that theater at Lefrak until you mentioned it. I drew a total blank. Then I searched local live.com to try and figure out, and all of a sudden I remembered the theater, I must have passed it literally thousands of times on the LIE. Never set foot inside. I always thought it was bigger than a triplex when passing on the LIE. How was it broken up? Two auditoriums downstairs and the balcony? I guess this conversation should move to the Lefrak theater section….I also just posted an aerial image of it there.
Thanks Bway. All I could think of was Loew’s Corona Plaza, but that’s under the el at Roosevelt Avenue and 103rd St., and was where I saw the Matthew Broderick – Jean Reno female pregnant “Godzilla” right before Memorial Day Weekend 1998.
Here’s the theater you were looking for Peter….
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mikemovies, I’m glad you’ve tolerated the ramblings of a Ritchwoot alter kocker hungeleiter.
Didn’t know there WAS a 1984 version of Gojira. On Labor Day Weekend 1985, I DID see “Godzilla 1985” with a silver-haired Raymond Burr, at a Lefrak City, Queens theater which is no longer there. It may have been a Loew’s. I took the Q-58 “Corona” bus from Ridgewood to Junction Blvd. and Corona Avenue, and walked to the theater, which was in a mini-mall, at 99th Street and some numbered avenue, north of the LIE.
If this theater has a page on this site, and you can direct me to it, I would appreciate it.
After the movie, I walked home to Ridgewood through Glendale past the home of my friends Rich and Kathy Dittus. Rich expressed some amazement then that there was a new Godzilla movie, He’s posted on this site about seeing “E.T.” at the Cinemart in Forest Hills in. Feb. 1983. His younger brother is on this site alot as “Bob D.”
haha very funny. I would be excited myself to see Gojira. Have any of you fella’s seen the 1984 version of Gojira. I have not seen it. Would it be worth trying to score a copy.
Yes, BklynJim, I was a bit excited. Thanks for pointing out I had five in a row. When you’re hot, you’re hot !
It’s also the company I keep on this page, yourself included.
Good comparison between Japanese and American releases of “Gojira / Godzilla”. The former also made more sense in terms of sequels :
“If another of Gojira’s species is still alive …”
“No Cineaste Left Behind,” I say !
I say, too !
Even if it looks / sounds like :
“No Cine Ass Left Behind” or “No Pederast Left Behind”
(with pun intended, of course !)
Sorry, that just slipped out !
But it’s all behind me now !
5 straight posts! A bit excited, are we? LMAO, Peter! ;)–
The ‘54 version was Inoshiro Honda’s vision regarding nuclear peril. Gojira’s food supply had dried up and vanished. The '56 Burr version made him a rampaging beast, but that was the way to sell the film to American kids, hungry for monster movies during that era. (BTW, the quality of the restored print is excellent.)
As far as meeting at the Ridgewood Theater – and/or among the good burghers of Ridgewood itself – all of us will have plenty of time for get-togethers, based on personal schedules. Multiple opportunites. “No Cineaste Left Behind,” I say!