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Author Topic: Summer Film-Tech gathering - sign up! Josh Jones Redhat Posts: 1207 From: Plano, TX Registered: Apr 2000 posted 03-30-2005 11:41 PM                        I vote for the Cinema West Screening Room. The ledge in the booth is to die for......literally. JJ  |  IP: Logged Scott D. Neff Theatre Dork Posts: 919 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Oct 1999 posted 03-31-2005 09:56 PM                        I can go there whenever I want. Though I've yet to see a film there... I wonder if a film has EVER been run there.  |  IP: Logged Aaron Sisemore Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day! Posts: 3061 From: Rockwall TX USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 04-01-2005 01:48 AM                     quote: Scott D. Neff I wonder if a film has EVER been run there. Besides test films and a few odd reels of stuff, the feature 'After The Sunset' has played the CW screening room. More to come, I am sure. -Aaron  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 04-01-2005 04:53 AM                     Wait a minute Aaron. Are you saying that stuff in the Cinema West screening room actually WORKS??? Just yanking your chain. I also vote we have the gathering there in June. Nobody would ever intentionally go to Watseka anyway. Will the concession stand be stocked with Reese's peanut butter cups, or did the projectionist eat them all?  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 04-01-2005 10:59 AM                        Would any British Film-Techers - or even those from mainland Europe - like to try for something similar here? The Bradford film museum on a Saturday when This is Cinerama is showing might be a possibility.  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 04-01-2005 12:12 PM                     Count me in, if it's not in the next couple of months. Money's a bit tight at the moment, after doing New Jersey and Bradford in the same month. Maybe we could fit in a Visit to York as well, it doesn't take that long to get there. Distances are always going to be a problem for the US people, even If you hold it right in the middle of the Country it's going to be a long way from somebody. If Scott Norwood wanted to visit Michael Schaffer he would have to travel almost as far as he would to visit me.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 04-01-2005 03:28 PM                        I'd guess that there are 5-10 Brits who regularly post here. In addition, Jet2 does direct low-budget flights to LBA from France (CDG) and Holland (AMS), which should make it not too expensive for people from mainland Europe to come. How about a Euro-Film Tech gathering on a 'Cinerama' Saturday afternoon towards the back end of the summer, e.g. the August or September screening day? Feedback please...  |  IP: Logged Dick Vaughan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1032 From: Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK Registered: Jul 2000 posted 04-01-2005 04:30 PM                        Aw Leo Appreciate the business but can't we go somewhere more "exotic" I haven't been to York in a while  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 04-01-2005 04:56 PM                     Is Amsterdam exotic enough? If so, I'll join ya guys!  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 04-02-2005 03:53 AM                        quote: Dick Vaughan I haven't been to York in a while That's a good idea. There's a wonderful old building there: It's being used by some religious cult or other at the moment, but I'm sure that if we gutted the place, it would make a great Imax 6-plex... Amsterdam would be possible, too. There are good transport links from all over Europe, though it might be an idea to hold off until the autumn when flights will be a lot cheaper.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 04-02-2005 04:11 AM                     quote: Brad Miller Wait a minute Aaron. Are you saying that stuff in the Cinema West screening room actually WORKS??? ...did anyone notice that extremely rare and absolutely valuable piece of collective work being that "Revenge of the Jedi" one-sheet hanging in his poster case in his hallway? There were only 500 of these one-sheets printed before Lucas pulled the title to become "Return of the Jedi." SUDDENLY, a rare collector's item. That one-sheet alone could build him a new screening room/house. -Monte  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 04-02-2005 04:59 AM                     I was thinking of a visit to the York Picture House; there aren't too many cinemas that have upgraded to 70mm in recent times. Also, probably quite a few of us probably haven't had a chance to look at a DLP setup yet. On a similar theme, and going back to the NJ/Loews Jersey thing, how about an East Coast get-together sometime next year to pay them a visit when they have their 'new' DP-70s up and running? I've seen them in pieces on the floor of the lobby, and they seem to be in good condition. We should support people who are doing this sort of thing. There's still a lot of work to be done there; I doubt that I will see it finished in my lifetime, but at least they are putting on shows, and the future of the building now looks secure. Also, not to far away is the lafayette in Suffern NY. It's only a few hundred metres out of New Jersey. A very nice theatre, and equipped to run 3-D. Is there any chance of a smaller version of the 3-D festival which took place last year on the other side of the Country being brought East? For both events I would come over if I could arrange time off work, which would probably need a few weeks notice. quote: Leo Enticknap It's being used by some religious cult or other at the moment, but I'm sure that if we gutted the place, it would make a great Imax 6-plex... Well, there are plenty of former cinemas which have been converted into churches. There's an interesting building in London. It was built as a fairly early cinema, in the style of a Mosque. It eventually closed as a cinema, and had various other uses for a while, before being abandoned and boarded up. A few years ago it was restored and re-opened as, guess what, a mosque. I wonder how many people who see it for the first time today realise what its origins were.  |  IP: Logged Dick Vaughan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1032 From: Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK Registered: Jul 2000 posted 04-02-2005 01:27 PM                        Amsterdam . Mmm? ladies of easy virtue and a new IMAX MPX installation. What more could you want  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 04-02-2005 01:45 PM                     My sentiments exactly! When I was there last October my friend Marko got my friend and I a tour of the Tuchinski Theater in downtown Amsterdam, it was pretty nice to see. I'll have to email the pics to brad sometime.  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 04-02-2005 03:19 PM                     Tuschinski Theatre, Amsterdam  |  IP: Logged

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