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Author Topic: Finding Classics on the Big Screen Scott Jentsch Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1061 From: New Berlin, WI, USA Registered: Apr 2003 posted 04-06-2010 08:37 PM                        Robert, I've re-activated the Capitol so that we're showing it in our listings again: http://www.bigscreen.com/Marquee.php?theater=2880 so please make sure to send your movie schedule to Cinema Source using the information we have on the following page: http://www.bigscreen.com/extranet/submitschedule.php This will get those showtimes into the data feed I receive from them. Since these are classic films, make sure to specify the movie with year and director, so that the correct movie is tagged as playing at your theater. I've been running into lots of issues where a movie with a common title is mistakenly tagged with the incorrect choice, which creates confusion. I've also added a photo from the Capitol's web site, so there's some eye candy for people to enjoy. I look forward to seeing your showtimes!  |  IP: Logged Mitchell Dvoskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1869 From: West Milford, NJ, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 04-21-2010 10:00 AM                     This coming weekend of April 23rd and 24th, The Landmark Loews Jersey Theatre located on Journal Square in Jersey City, New Jersey, continues its 80th Birthday Jubilee and 10th consecutive year of classic films. This season, we are saluting the decades that the Landmark Loews Jersey has been entertaining us. This month, we will be presenting some great classic films from the 1960’s. Located directly across from the PATH subway station connecting Manhattan with Jersey City, it is also easy to reach from most area highways. Secure discounted parking is located directly behind the theatre. Have your parking ticket validated at the theatre’s boxoffice. All Show Are Presented In 35mm With Genuine Carbon Arc Projection On Our Giant 50 Foot Wide Screen. Friday April 23rd at 8:00pm – To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) Starring Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Philip Alford, Robert Duvall. Directed by Robert Mulligan. Music by Elmer Bernstein. (129mins., B&W.) A wonderful story of a precocious young tomboy and her brother being raised in rural Georgia of the 1930s by their widowed and highly principled father who, as an attorney, takes on the then-impossible mission of defending a black man accused of raping a white woman. Based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Harper Lee, the movie melds the routines, small triumphs and travails of children growing up with the harsh reality of segregation and prejudice. Lee's work has become a rite of passage for generations of school children. The movie is among the most successfully realized film interpretations of a novel ever made, and one of the most quietly affecting works ever shown on the screen -- comedic, dramatic, insightful, tragic, uplifting -- and thoroughly engrossing. Gregory Peck won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Saturday April 24th at 6:00pm – A Hard Days Night (1964) Starring The Beatles, Wilfrid Brambell, Norman Rossington. Directed by Richard Lester. (85min., B&W.) The wild, all-encompassing popularity of The Beatles that exploded across America in late 1963 and '64 changed virtually everything about music and pop culture. A Hard Day's Night was a first attempt to channel some of The Beatles' popularity toward movie theatre box offices. Remarkably, though the production was decidedly rushed, Director Lester and screenwriter Alun Owen created a musical-comedy-fantasy that managed to perfectly capture the good-naturedly sardonic personas of each of The Beatles while fairly accurately depicting the manic zaniness of the early Beatlemania. The Beatles themselves were very pleased with the results. Of course, the soundtrack rings with some of the Fab Four's most popular early songs, including "Can't Buy Me Love," "And I Love Her," "I Should Have Known Better," and the title tune, which was reportedly written overnight by John Lennon and Paul McCartney in response to a plea from the director for a song to match the movie's title. Saturday April 24th at 8:15pm – The Graduate (1967) Starring Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross. Directed by Mike Nichols. (105mins., Color & Panavision) This is one of a handful of films that managed to speak directly to the baby-boom generation as it was coming of age, and as such contributed several very notable references to our collective popular culture -- including the line that summed up the future in one word -- "plastic." But more than forty years after it was made, the movie remains as poignant and funny as ever -- greatly entertaining to audiences that came before and after the boomers. In his first major film role, Dustin Hoffman plays a very naive college graduate who is seduced by a middle-aged woman, and then falls in love with her daughter. Contributing immeasurably to the success of the film is the score, much of which was provided by the legendary folk-rock team of Simon and Garfunkel. Their song "Mrs. Robinson," which refers to Anne Bancroft's character, is one of the most familiar pieces of the decade, was first heard (in an abbreviated form) in this movie. Visit The Landmark Loews Jersey web site for details.  |  IP: Logged John Stewart Film Handler Posts: 67 From: Austin, TX, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 04-28-2010 02:23 PM                     May 20th starts our summer season at the Paramount theater in Austin, Tx. As always, we start with CASABLANCA and a 2nd Bogart film. This year THE MALTESE FALCON is the second feature. Here is the summer list: http://www.austintheatre.org/site/PageNavigator/shows_events/films John  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 04-28-2010 04:10 PM                     John That looks fantastic. A great line-up of films.Well done to all involved. Now, if only The Paramount were a little closer...  |  IP: Logged John Stewart Film Handler Posts: 67 From: Austin, TX, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 04-29-2010 07:45 PM                     Our booker knows his films and watches out for new prints of recently restored films. He does a great job every year. There are a few titles that comes back every summer. LAWRENCE in 70mm is one for sure. John  |  IP: Logged Mark Lensenmayer Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1605 From: Upper Arlington, OH Registered: Sep 1999 posted 04-29-2010 09:18 PM                     Ohio Theatre in Columbus Ohio announces its 40th Summer Movie Series: Rear Window (1954) Friday, June 4, 7:30 pm Sunday, June 6, 2 pm & 7:30 pm It Happened One Night (1934) Wednesday & Thursday, June 9 & 10, 7:30 pm daily FRIGHT NITE FRIDAY! DOUBLE FEATURE! Friday, June 11, 7:30 pm Frankenstein (1931) The Wolf Man (1941) Singin’ in the Rain (1952) Saturday, June 12, 7:30 pm Sunday, June 13, 2 pm & 7:30 pm Rio Bravo (1959) Wednesday & Thursday, June 16 & 17, 7:30 pm daily CHICK FLICK FRIDAY! Pretty Woman (1990) (Rated R) Friday, June 18, 7:30 pm Cartoon Capers Saturday, June 19, 10 am Some Like It Hot (1959) Saturday, June 19, 7:30 pm Sunday, June 20, 2 pm & 7:30 pm The Goonies (1985) Wednesday, June 23, 7:30 pm SILENT FILM! BUSTER KEATON DOUBLE FEATURE! Thursday & Friday, June 24 & 25, 7:30 pm daily Both films will be accompanied live by Clark Wilson on the Ohio Theatre’s prized “Mighty Morton” organ! Sherlock Jr. (1924) Seven Chances (1925)! Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) Friday, June 25, 11 pm Carousel (1956) Saturday, June 26, 7:30 pm Sunday, June 27, 2 pm & 7:30 pm My Man Godfrey (1936) Wednesday & Thursday, June 30 & July 1, 7:30 pm daily All About Eve (1950) Wednesday & Thursday, July 7 & 8, 7:30 pm daily How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998) (Rated R) Friday, July 9, 7:30 pm The Music Man (1962) Saturday, July 10, 7:30 pm Sunday, July 11, 2 pm & 7:30 pm Strangers on a Train (1951) Wednesday-Friday, July 14-16, 7:30 pm daily Cartoon Capers Saturday, July 17, 10 am Patton (1970) Saturday, July 17, 7:30 pm Sunday, July 18, 2 pm & 7:30 pm Double Indemnity (1944) Wednesday-Friday, July 21-23, 7:30 pm daily The Omen (1976) (RATED R) Friday, July 23, 11 pm My Fair Lady (1964) Saturday, July 24, 7:30 pm Sunday, July 25, 2 pm  |  IP: Logged Mitchell Dvoskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1869 From: West Milford, NJ, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 05-16-2010 06:23 PM                     The Landmark Loews Jersey – The Wonder Theatre Of New Jersey This coming weekend of May 21st and 22nd, The Landmark Loews Jersey Theatre located on Journal Square in Jersey City, New Jersey, continues its 80th Birthday Jubilee and 10th consecutive year of classic films. This season, we are saluting the decades that the Landmark Loews Jersey has been entertaining us. This month, we will be presenting some great classic films from the 1970’s. Located directly across from the PATH subway station connecting Manhattan with Jersey City, it is also easy to reach from most area highways. Secure discounted parking is located directly behind the theatre. Have your parking ticket validated at the theatre’s boxoffice. All Show Are Presented In 35mm With Genuine Carbon Arc Projection On Our Giant 50 Foot Wide Screen. Friday May 21st at 8:00pm – Taxi Driver (1976) Starring Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd, Jodie Foster, Peter Boyle, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel. Directed by Martin Scorsese. (113mins, Rated R) "I'm God's lonely man," says Travis Bickle, played by Robert De Niro in one of his finest and most memorable performances. He's an insomniac, ex-Marine and chronic loner who, even when he tries, can’t seem to relate to the world around him. He drives a cab at night in the decaying New York City of the mid-1970s, which director Martin Scorsese and screenwriter Paul Schrader depict as a grimly stylized hell on Earth, where noise, filth, directionless rage, and dirty sex (both morally and literally) surround him at all turns. Lost in this toxic milieu, chronically isolated and potentially volatile, Bickle is a bomb waiting to explode, like the proverbial gun which, when produced in the first act, must go off in the third. After an encounter with a malevolent fare (played by Scorsese), the increasingly paranoid Bickle begins to condition (and arm) himself for his imagined destiny, a mission that mutates from assassinating a Presidential candidate to violently "saving" a teenage hooker (played by Jodie Foster) from her pimp. The film features Bernard Herrmann's final score, reported to be finished the day he died. Saturday May 22nd at 6:15pm – Blazing Saddles (1974) Starring Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Slim Pickens, Harvey Korman, Mel Brooks. Written & Directed by Mel Brooks. (93mins, Rated R) Blazing Saddles is vulgar, crude and sometimes scandalous – and is one of the funniest and most successful film spoofs of all time. It is also writer-director Mel Brooks at his ribald best, with further outrageous hilarity added by co-writer Richard Pryor. Cleavon Little plays the first African-American sheriff of a stunned Western town scheduled for demolition by an encroaching railroad. If that plot sounds, at least in part, like a throw-back to the movies of an earlier time, it’s because Brooks was, in his own manic way, a central figure in revising classic film genres to reflect the 70s' values and attitudes – an effort more often associated with such directors as Robert Altman and Peter Bogdanovich. Blazing Saddles is a work that truly could have only been made in the '70s – the idiom of the classic American western hijacked into an over-the-top comedy that purposely and relentlessly shredded the popular conception of “good taste” while making merciless fun of everyone, regardless of skin color or religious persuasion. If blacks came off as stereotypical, whites were shown as just plain stupid and ignorant. The result was one of the funniest films of all time – which, ironically, could probably not be made today in our more politically correct time. Beyond its over-the-top humor, Blazing Saddles boasts some great performances: Little and Gene Wilder have great chemistry; Madeline Kahn is wonderful as a chanteuse modeled on Marlene Dietrich; and Slim Pickens, Harvey Korman and even Brooks himself turn in great supporting roles. Saturday May 22nd at 8:40pm – Saturday Night Fever (1977) Starring John Travolta, Karen Gorney, Barry Miller, Joseph Cali, Paul Pope. Directed by John Badham. (119mins, Rated R) From the moment John Travolta sauntered down a Brooklyn street to the Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive" at the beginning of Saturday Night Fever, music, movies and all of pop culture were irrevocably changed, and the 1970s gained what is perhaps the decade's single most recognizable celluloid imagery. Travolta plays Tony Manero, a Brooklyn paint-store clerk who's trapped in a dead-end existence – except at night on the disco dance floor, where, when he struts his stuff amid the flashing lights and sweaty, undulating bodies, he’s a king. Part of the film’s success owes to how astutely it balanced a gritty sense of the 70s' economic and social malaise with galvanizing dance numbers. But of course, the hallmark of the film is Travolata’s star-making performance – especially the scenes in his iconic white suit – and the Bee Gees soundtrack. During the first half of 1978, the movie's disco songs saturated the singles charts, occupying up to four positions at a time, prompting more and more people to see the movie – just as, in turn, the movie's vast popularity prompted more and more record sales. This powerful marketing synergy between movies and music set a new standard, with the film eventually grossing over $100 million and the soundtrack becoming one of the best-selling albums of all time. For many young people at the time, the movie marked their generation's coming of age and was an indelible movie-going experience. By any measure, Saturday Night Fever is the definitive evocation of the Disco Era, and affirmation of Disco's dominance of the pop culture scene at the time. Visit The Landmark Loews Jersey web site for details.  |  IP: Logged Mitchell Dvoskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1869 From: West Milford, NJ, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 06-01-2010 11:23 AM                     This coming weekend of June 4th and 5th, The Landmark Loews Jersey Theatre located on Journal Square in Jersey City, New Jersey, concludes its 80th Birthday Jubilee and 10th consecutive year of classic films. All this season, we have been saluting the decades that the Landmark Loews Jersey has been entertaining us. For June, we will be presenting some great classic films from the 1980’s. Located directly across from the PATH subway station connecting Manhattan with Jersey City, it is also easy to reach from most area highways. Secure discounted parking is located directly behind the theatre. Have your parking ticket validated at the theatre’s boxoffice. All Show Are Presented In 35mm With Genuine Carbon Arc Projection On Our Giant 50 Foot Wide Screen. Friday June 4th at 8:00pm – Raging Bull (1980) Starring Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent, Nicholas Colasanto. Directed by Martin Scorsese. (128mins., Rated: R) Martin Scorsese's brutal character study incisively portrays the rise, fall and redemption of real-life middleweight boxer Jake La Motta, a violent man in and out of the ring who seemed to thrive on his ability and willingness to take a beating. Opening with the spectacle of the over-the-hill La Motta (Robert De Niro) practicing his 1960s night-club act, the film flashes back to 1940s New York when Jake's career is on the rise. But Scorsese and De Niro eschew uplifting, "Rocky"-like, boxing movie conventions to make an unflinching portrait of an unlikable man and his ruthless profession. Their Jake is relentlessly cruel and self-destructive, a person whose inner demons cannot be exorcised even by acclaim and success. The physical brutality that makes Jake a champion in the boxing ring cripples his relationships with his wives, his business associates, and his brother. Saturday June 5th at 6:00pm – Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (1985) Starring Paul Reubens, Elizabeth Daily, Mark Holton, Diane Salinger. Directed by Tim Burton. (90mins, Rated: PG) Tim Burton made his feature-length directorial debut with this film, and immediately established what would become his trademark quirky style. The film has a look reminiscent of German expressionist movies of the 1920s, filtered through a pop-art sensibility of cartoons, horror serials and Gothic fairy tales. The result is a surreal, mystical world, yet one very close to our own – that perfectly fits the absurdist humor. And the score by Danny Elfman is terrific. In all, Pee wee's Big Adventure is a delightful film, enjoyable for children as well as adults. Saturday June 5th at 8:15pm – The Blues Brothers (1980) Starring John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, James Brown, Ray Charles, Cab Calloway, Aretha Franklin, Carrie Fisher, John Candy, Henry Gibson. Directed by John Landis. (133mins., Rated: R.) This movie is also an unapologetic homage to rhythm-and-blues in all its popular derivatives, from Cab Calloway to James Brown to Aretha Franklin, all of whom appear in lovingly realized musical scenes. And there is great fun in spotting the other members of the film’s legion of guest stars, including John Candy, Carrie Fisher, Steve Lawrence, Twiggy, Paul Reubens (aka Pee-Wee Herman), Frank Oz and Steven Spielberg. And topping it all off, the streets, highways and police department of Chicago are laid to waste in what is, if not the most spectacular, then without doubt the funniest and coolest car chase scenes ever filmed. The Blues Brothers is filled with great fun and great music from beginning to end, and is the essence of entertainment. Visit The Landmark Loews Jersey web site for details.  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 06-02-2010 07:56 AM                     quote: Mitchell Dvoskin Directed by John Badham. Related somehow, brother I think, to Mary Badham who played Jean Louise (Scout) in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' which you ran a few weeks ago.  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Jorgenson Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1002 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: Feb 2005 posted 06-06-2010 04:03 PM                        I just watched a 35mm print of Murder by Death (1976) at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago last night ... well, technically it was this morning. They usually run an older movie at midnight on Fridays and Saturday (next week is Demolition Man (1993)). They're also running Metropolis (1927) all this week, but as that's a reissue, I guess it doesn't really count for this thread.  |  IP: Logged Victor Liorentas Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 800 From: london ontario canada Registered: May 2009 posted 06-06-2010 06:56 PM                     Was Murder By Death a 35mm print and how did it look? I love that movie!  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Jorgenson Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1002 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: Feb 2005 posted 06-07-2010 03:45 AM                        quote: Jeremy Jorgenson I just watched a 35mm print of Murder by Death (1976) Dust on & off throughout, but I didn't notice any missing footage, and only a couple scratches at some of the reel changes, so all & all a good print.  |  IP: Logged Galen Murphy-Fahlgren Master Film Handler Posts: 405 From: Canton, MI, USA Registered: Oct 2007 posted 06-08-2010 02:52 PM                     Does anyone know what format the lost print of Metropolis is playing in? It is scheduled the next two weekends at the Detroit Film Theatre, "projected in a high-definition format." I left a message on their machine inquiring as to whether that meant 70mm or what, and received a message on my voicemail saying that it was playing in a high definition digital format, but what exactly that meant was not specified. I would imagine 2k, but I was not aware of this particular venue having installed a 2k or 4k, just a tabletop DLP from which they present slides of museum corporate sponsors.  |  IP: Logged Mitchell Dvoskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1869 From: West Milford, NJ, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 06-08-2010 06:16 PM                     The new version of Metropolis is only available digitally. Not sure if it is DVD/BlueRay, or actual 2K, as we have no video capability at The Landmark Loews Jersey so we did not pursue it. As of yet, no film prints have been struck.  |  IP: Logged Galen Murphy-Fahlgren Master Film Handler Posts: 405 From: Canton, MI, USA Registered: Oct 2007 posted 06-08-2010 07:21 PM                     Thanks for the info. This is quite a quandary, because I am not sure if it is worth it to drive to Detroit and spend all that money for DVD projection. I once accidentally saw a DVD projection of Fritz Lang's "M" at the Michigan Theater, which normally has unsurpassed projection quality, and was quite disappointed. I really wish that places that sometimes resort to DVD projection would explicitly denote that on their website or program. If that is the only way they can show it, I may still be interested, but it leaves a bitter taste in my mouth to show up expecting a real print, and get home video on a screen too large for that medium instead.  |  IP: Logged

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