Ed just like you I was addicted to those sections including Travel. Now I find it all just about unreadable. Smug overly assured just like that guy in the commercial"It’s the when where to to how to"-pretty annoying.
The French curve marquee was so great I hate to see part or all of it covered up.
Anybody have a list of VistaVision films that played at the Paramount?
Yes, Warren above points out that no one would have dared to protest the destruction of the Paramount due to the power of the Times, a paper whose smug biases make the NY Post and the Village Voice seem like gentlemanly journals of measured good sense and reason.
The New York Times was a great champion of the destruction of Times Square.
The great liberal compassionate paper wields its power like a mercenary tyrant.
Its interesting that a lot of people today are not fans of movie musicals as when the talkies started in was the movie musical that pretty much launched them like a rocket. I’ve always found music and great camerawork exhilarating(think Lubitsch and The Merry Widow) or just sit it down and record Astaire and Rogers/Charisse.
Howard I thought your comment about Chicago was interesting. I find movie musicals of today unwatchable due to the loss of any skill in staging, photographing, and editing musical sequences(don’t like the music much either.) Yet Chicago is considered a great success for today’s audiences. So you I guess you didn’t like it?
Interestingly this theater was a classy first run roadshow house in the late twenties and by the early thirties it was grinding out double features at pop prices. The same thing with the Gaity which was roadshowing in the early 30’s and then by the mid was presenting burlesque.
I thought this only happened in the late 60’s when the theaters that were showing top Hollywood roadshow product in only one or two short years would be showing porno and exploitation films.
I am completely baffled that somebody like Scorsese who as one of the most esteemed and powerful men in the film industry and who has a passionate interest in classic films and 70mm has shown no interest and done absolutely nothing to promote its proper presentation in the New York City area.
Bringing Up Baby is a good choice but it is played to death on TCM.
How about a big movie palace movie like Jumbo(though recently shown it would benefit from a big screen,) National Velvet(they could magnascope the screen for the race-just joking,) and King Kong which I have never seen on screen. Guess I’m still waiting for the Music Hall to show it.
Au Hasard Balthazar would of course be perfect but its about the saddest most depressing movie you will ever see in your life.
A lot of people criticize it because it dumps a lot of the Broadway detritus-eg the lame satirical stuff, the filler songs(An English Teacher, Fine Upstanding American Boy, What Did I ever See In Him) etc. But I don’t know anybody who calls it dull. Maybe you need to see it on a screen. Margaret is great as well in How Lovely to be a Woman and Lot of Livin to Do.
I may also be the only one on the planet who likes The Rose Adagio on amphetamines. When I was a boy the classical segments on Ed Sullivan used to drive me crazy and I couldn’t wait for them to end. So I find it pretty funny when the dancers end up throwing the roses at the conductor.
While I happen to like Best in Show which is probably the best of the Guest it certainly is not the kind of film that needs a movie palace to set it off. I wonder if it will bring in many people on a Friday night.
I have found that the Loews does best when they show big old fashioned entertainments the kind that people went to movie palaces for. Like Martin and Lewis, Abbott and Costello and Ben Hur.
I’m still waiting for my Saturday night tribute to the beloved Ann Margaret- Bye Bye Birdie and Viva Las Vegas. If they can get a pristine eye popping early 60’s technicolor print of Birdie I tell you it is the ultimate movie trip. And those Johnny Green arrangements in stereo!
I don’t know if any of you noticed my post above but I already stated on the info given to me by Clearview that My Fair Lady will be in 35mm. When a theater known for its 70mm capability shows a film with which it had an enormous success for its 70mm presentation of said film it is especially frustrating that nobody went the extra yard to insure a print for this showing. Otherwise it is just like seeing it in any other theater and a great opportunity is lost. I know that the MOMA has a print and don’t museums always lend works of art to other museums? How often do they show this film?
Very, very, rarely. Besides as I noted above their screen is too small to do 70mm justice. Clearview could have advertised that the print was from the MOMA.
Well I’ll be there for Ben Hur and WSS, which I have never seen in 70mm as they have not been shown as such in Manhattan since their Palace and Rivoli engagments in the 60’s.
Just spoke with Clearview and Fair Lady will not be in 70mm. Bummer. So what genuine 70mm films still exist in that format? And will we ever see them again in New York?
I guess we were lucky to see the prints that still existed in the 70’s.
I still hope the MOMA print or the Music Hall print from their Warner Brothers festival can be used.
By the way when the Ziegeld held the 93 restoration it was only for 9 days. Would this print then be available? Or would 27 showings wear down a 70mm print?
Why would anybody junk a 70mm print of My Fair Lady? It would be like tearing down Penn Station all over again. I believe the Moma might have one. I saw it there a few years ago(screen was too small to do it justice.) Does it still exist?
By the way the nadir of the 60’s holiday films was A Boy Named Charlie Brown or was it The Impossible Years(or That Darn Cat or Father Goose or Moon Pilot or The Singing Nun or …)
Oh my god. So there is a programmer out there who knows what he’s doing?
Please, please, please, let Ben Hur, WSS and MFL be in genuine 70mm!!!
How can we find out?
BOB,
Was Serenade a terrible movie or was it just unsuitable for the Easter show? In the program photo Lanza’s face looks very puffy despite the fact that he might have been in his mid 30’s.
The Music Hall seems to have had at this point a run of bad Easter films starting with Rose Marie. I assume Green Mansions was the nadir of the 50’s holiday shows Christmas and Easter(July 4th, Thanksgiving…)
Ed just like you I was addicted to those sections including Travel. Now I find it all just about unreadable. Smug overly assured just like that guy in the commercial"It’s the when where to to how to"-pretty annoying.
The French curve marquee was so great I hate to see part or all of it covered up.
Anybody have a list of VistaVision films that played at the Paramount?
Yes, Warren above points out that no one would have dared to protest the destruction of the Paramount due to the power of the Times, a paper whose smug biases make the NY Post and the Village Voice seem like gentlemanly journals of measured good sense and reason.
The New York Times was a great champion of the destruction of Times Square.
The great liberal compassionate paper wields its power like a mercenary tyrant.
I believe the last line of Rodgers and Hart’s ‘Zip’ is
“Who the hell is Margie Haaaart?"
So who the hell was she?
Its interesting that a lot of people today are not fans of movie musicals as when the talkies started in was the movie musical that pretty much launched them like a rocket. I’ve always found music and great camerawork exhilarating(think Lubitsch and The Merry Widow) or just sit it down and record Astaire and Rogers/Charisse.
Howard I thought your comment about Chicago was interesting. I find movie musicals of today unwatchable due to the loss of any skill in staging, photographing, and editing musical sequences(don’t like the music much either.) Yet Chicago is considered a great success for today’s audiences. So you I guess you didn’t like it?
Interestingly this theater was a classy first run roadshow house in the late twenties and by the early thirties it was grinding out double features at pop prices. The same thing with the Gaity which was roadshowing in the early 30’s and then by the mid was presenting burlesque.
I thought this only happened in the late 60’s when the theaters that were showing top Hollywood roadshow product in only one or two short years would be showing porno and exploitation films.
Howard that sounds wonderful.
Unfortunately I couldn’t open your page.
When will this be?
I am completely baffled that somebody like Scorsese who as one of the most esteemed and powerful men in the film industry and who has a passionate interest in classic films and 70mm has shown no interest and done absolutely nothing to promote its proper presentation in the New York City area.
Bringing Up Baby is a good choice but it is played to death on TCM.
How about a big movie palace movie like Jumbo(though recently shown it would benefit from a big screen,) National Velvet(they could magnascope the screen for the race-just joking,) and King Kong which I have never seen on screen. Guess I’m still waiting for the Music Hall to show it.
Au Hasard Balthazar would of course be perfect but its about the saddest most depressing movie you will ever see in your life.
A lot of people criticize it because it dumps a lot of the Broadway detritus-eg the lame satirical stuff, the filler songs(An English Teacher, Fine Upstanding American Boy, What Did I ever See In Him) etc. But I don’t know anybody who calls it dull. Maybe you need to see it on a screen. Margaret is great as well in How Lovely to be a Woman and Lot of Livin to Do.
I may also be the only one on the planet who likes The Rose Adagio on amphetamines. When I was a boy the classical segments on Ed Sullivan used to drive me crazy and I couldn’t wait for them to end. So I find it pretty funny when the dancers end up throwing the roses at the conductor.
While I happen to like Best in Show which is probably the best of the Guest it certainly is not the kind of film that needs a movie palace to set it off. I wonder if it will bring in many people on a Friday night.
I have found that the Loews does best when they show big old fashioned entertainments the kind that people went to movie palaces for. Like Martin and Lewis, Abbott and Costello and Ben Hur.
I’m still waiting for my Saturday night tribute to the beloved Ann Margaret- Bye Bye Birdie and Viva Las Vegas. If they can get a pristine eye popping early 60’s technicolor print of Birdie I tell you it is the ultimate movie trip. And those Johnny Green arrangements in stereo!
I don’t know if any of you noticed my post above but I already stated on the info given to me by Clearview that My Fair Lady will be in 35mm. When a theater known for its 70mm capability shows a film with which it had an enormous success for its 70mm presentation of said film it is especially frustrating that nobody went the extra yard to insure a print for this showing. Otherwise it is just like seeing it in any other theater and a great opportunity is lost. I know that the MOMA has a print and don’t museums always lend works of art to other museums? How often do they show this film?
Very, very, rarely. Besides as I noted above their screen is too small to do 70mm justice. Clearview could have advertised that the print was from the MOMA.
Well I’ll be there for Ben Hur and WSS, which I have never seen in 70mm as they have not been shown as such in Manhattan since their Palace and Rivoli engagments in the 60’s.
Just spoke with Clearview and Fair Lady will not be in 70mm. Bummer. So what genuine 70mm films still exist in that format? And will we ever see them again in New York?
And early Cinemascope is wider than Panavision.
I guess we were lucky to see the prints that still existed in the 70’s.
I still hope the MOMA print or the Music Hall print from their Warner Brothers festival can be used.
By the way when the Ziegeld held the 93 restoration it was only for 9 days. Would this print then be available? Or would 27 showings wear down a 70mm print?
Why would anybody junk a 70mm print of My Fair Lady? It would be like tearing down Penn Station all over again. I believe the Moma might have one. I saw it there a few years ago(screen was too small to do it justice.) Does it still exist?
So does this mean we’ll never see 70mm again?
By the way the nadir of the 60’s holiday films was A Boy Named Charlie Brown or was it The Impossible Years(or That Darn Cat or Father Goose or Moon Pilot or The Singing Nun or …)
Oh my god. So there is a programmer out there who knows what he’s doing?
Please, please, please, let Ben Hur, WSS and MFL be in genuine 70mm!!!
How can we find out?
BOB,
Was Serenade a terrible movie or was it just unsuitable for the Easter show? In the program photo Lanza’s face looks very puffy despite the fact that he might have been in his mid 30’s.
The Music Hall seems to have had at this point a run of bad Easter films starting with Rose Marie. I assume Green Mansions was the nadir of the 50’s holiday shows Christmas and Easter(July 4th, Thanksgiving…)
Movieguy 718,
What’s this about revivals?
Where did you read about this?
Any details?
I wonder as well about Ted Turner. How would he like a restored honest to god movie theater in Times Square named after him?
So what is in the uncensored version that was then cut? Is something going on with Bo Peep and Jack?