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Free showing of "My Fair Lady," Monday Jan. 10, 2005, 7:00pm, Wang Center (ex-Metropolitan Theatre, Music Hall), 270 Tremont St., Boston. www.wangcenter.org

THS Northeast Director Bob Stinson from Arlington MA will be there and is gauging interest in getting together with other THS members for Dutch treat dinner before the show. Contact him at mastbaum1929@hotmail.com or
801/391-8381.

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Boston-area folks can go out & critically appraise the whole shebang. Crash the THSA dinner, they'll likely be looking for more folks to split the tip.

Find your way around the theater with this handy guide.
 

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Posted by Steve Kraus (Member # 476) on 12-03-2004, 11:08 AM:
 
In 70mm or not? Eliza deserves at least that much of a bang from your Wang.
 

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Posted by Bill Gabel (Member # 1105) on 12-03-2004, 11:26 AM:
 
The only thing on the site is that the running time is TBD.

70MM is the only way to see it. But the last time I saw it in 35mm was at the Art-Deco Paramount Theatre in Oakland, California. A classic showing a classic.
 

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Posted by Dan Lyons (Member # 1454) on 12-03-2004, 01:27 PM:
 
I saw that in 70mm at Graumans Egyptian few years back, someone who worked on the restoration was there talking. Anyway, it had several black lines!!

I showed an original IBtech print in 35mm a few months back; I expected a newer print, it was a happy surprise. Looked pretty nice for its age.

btw... this thread tricked me.. i thought it was going to be about a double feature with "MFL" and Phil's fave movie, "flesh gordon".
 

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Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 12-03-2004, 01:40 PM:
 
Hopefully it will be in 70mm. I've only seen the film twice, both times in 70mm. Coolidge Corner had a near-mint 70mm print of it from Kit Parker in the late '90s (1997?) and the Senator in Baltimore showed a very nice-looking (but different) 70mm print in the spring of 2000. I don't think I really want to see it in 35mm.

As far as I know, there have been no public screenings of anything in 70mm in the Boston area since I ran three 70mm prints (Ghostbusters, the Abyss, and Starman) in a hotel ballroom at a sci-fi convention back in early September.

Cinestudio in Hartford, CT. has a 70mm engagement of Baraka coming up in a week or two, although it's somewhat questionable whether or not Hartford qualifies as being in the "Boston area" or not (it's 90 minutes away by car).

Edit: I should add here that the Wang always puts on a good show (though they weren't using the curtain for Ben-Hur...shame! shame!) and that anyone in the area should try to check out their film series. Unfortunately, the people who answer the phones there do not seem to know much about film, and questions like "is it 70mm" seem to be met with the aural equivalent of a blank stare. Fortunately, whoever does their booking does seem to be clueful and they do seem to get very nice prints.
 

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Posted by Tao Yue (Member # 836) on 12-12-2004, 12:47 AM:
 
Ever since the Wang's film series became sponsored and free, they haven't shown 70mm because of the additional expense. Not for West Side Story or Ben-Hur, not to mention a blowup like Bridge on the River Kwai.
 

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Posted by Thomas Hauerslev (Member # 566) on 12-13-2004, 02:04 AM:
 
Please send me info about all 70mm screenings you know about and I will add them to the list

Cheers, Thomas
www.in70mm.com
 

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Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 01-10-2005, 05:49 PM:
 
This wasn't 70mm. It wasn't 35mm, either. It was cancelled for reasons unknown (or, at least, unannounced).
 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 01-10-2005, 08:04 PM:
 
Now I know why Michael Schaffer was confused about Mad Mad World and why we all like that film so dam much.... In Germany all they show in 70mm are very serious, old, boring, faded Russian film... "Liberation" ("The Great Battle"). Now there are umpteen showings of that film scheduled on Thomas's 70mm web site but nothing else..... and nothing else even remotely funny. Thats way to dam serious of a film to be showing... they need to lighten up a bit and show something umpteen times that would make the German population laugh!!

Mark
 

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Posted by Gunnar Johansson (Member # 1661) on 01-11-2005, 09:10 AM:
 
Thomas: Upcoming in Gothenburg is El Cid on 12/4 through Swedish film institutes Cinematek (www.sfi.se). It´s at Draken so I´m sure Ari will be showing it?? Maybe I can come by and say Hi??

I´m going to see it, but I have no idea how much I´ll laugh. I´m not sure it´s a comedy as such...

//Gunnar
 

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Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 02-14-2005, 02:47 AM:
 

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This wasn't 70mm. It wasn't 35mm, either. It was cancelled for reasons unknown (or, at least, unannounced). [Razz]

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Was there any more info on what happened?
broke?

I see the Wang has more movies on Mondays.

Shakespeare in Love, Dirty Dancing, Guys & Dolls; are these 35mm, or something else?

Great lordamighty, we lose Stroheim's original cut of Greed, but Dirty Dancing survives.
 

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Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 02-14-2005, 07:55 AM:
 
All films are 35mm. They have run 70mm in the past, but not recently. They do this film series every year, although the titles are usually better than the ones scheduled for this year. Lately, admission has been free and the series has been sponsored by some business or another.

They put on a nice show at the Wang and the venue is beautiful. I don't know what went wrong with the MFL screening.
 

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Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 02-14-2005, 01:50 PM:
 
Okey - have to brag here: I ran the re-release of MFL back in 1971 in a "second-run" house (at that time, no discount, "buck" houses).

It was a new IB 35mm optical print, 10 reels long, shown through a pair of Simplex E-7's, Strong Mogul lamps running 9mm carbons, soundheads being the old fabric belt driven Western Electric 206 soundheads that had no scanner drum, just a "soundgate" where the film slid through, big ol' photocell of the size of a baseball, and to top it off - Pantar Anamorphics for Scope lenses (had to change out the backups first, then hang on the Pantars..)

Two years later, that house burnt down to the ground, having wood floors and a sputtery coal furnace. Everything was destroyed in that theatre - and the theatre JUST changed over to 6k reels, xenon, and with a goofy sort of automation/changeover type.

I was booted out of that theatre when the conversion came to being. Yet, I had to laugh when that house went down, for after booting me out, their operations went downhill, big time. Thus the attendence went down as well.

It was said the fire was caused by the furnace being not up to code. We knew it was arson, but could never prove it.

MFL looked beautiful on that theatre's big screen, which was a 16'/38' screen. Why the big screen for this theatre also had Motiongraph magnetic sound, for I found the mag penthouses.

-Monte
 

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