I saw it both the second and third nights at The Uptown in DC, which I recall was the 7th theater to show AN. Handout programs and no credits. 70mm with the new Dolby. The most awesome film I’d ever seen, which is why I returned the next night. Also to write down the titles of the books on Kurtz' table, which seemed to be key information, as indeed they turned out to be: Goethe’s Faust, The Golden Bough, From Ritual to Romance, and of course Kurtz' reading of The Hollow Men from Eliot’s Four Quartets. I left the theater stunned, just a “Wow” experience. But after 35 subsequent viewings on VHS and then DVD (and a couple college theses), I’d really like to see it again in 70mm. Seems to me that I also saw a retro big screen viewing in the late 1980’s in Boston, but maybe it was something else.
I saw it both the second and third nights at The Uptown in DC, which I recall was the 7th theater to show AN. Handout programs and no credits. 70mm with the new Dolby. The most awesome film I’d ever seen, which is why I returned the next night. Also to write down the titles of the books on Kurtz' table, which seemed to be key information, as indeed they turned out to be: Goethe’s Faust, The Golden Bough, From Ritual to Romance, and of course Kurtz' reading of The Hollow Men from Eliot’s Four Quartets. I left the theater stunned, just a “Wow” experience. But after 35 subsequent viewings on VHS and then DVD (and a couple college theses), I’d really like to see it again in 70mm. Seems to me that I also saw a retro big screen viewing in the late 1980’s in Boston, but maybe it was something else.