Coming to the big screen. I haven't seen it bore. I'm pretty excited.
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I did sixty in five minutes once...
Nothing like bumping an old thread but if you live near a theater that revives movies like this you are waaayyy lucky.
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I'll say. We have two theaters in town that plays retro stuff. This particular theater was built in 1922. Anyway, Charade was great.
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I did sixty in five minutes once...
If you ever get a chance to see (and you actually go to) Lawrence of Arabia in your theater, please post again and give your impressions. Of all of the widely discussed movies here and on played on TCM, that's the one I'd most like to see as big as possible.
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They did show Lawrence of Arabia! It has been four or five years but I did see it at that theater. It was absolutely incredible. I don't think I could see it on a television screen.
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I did sixty in five minutes once...
Very nice. I have a 42" tv and it's just not big enough for that movie, most of David Lean's movies, actually, and some of the great westerns from the 1950's.
shareWhen they did the Lawrence restoration 25 years ago, it played at the Ziegfeld in NYC - the city's best movie theatre with a screen the size of Texas and the finest sound system anywhere. Can't describe the experience as anything other than extraordinary.
Until VCR's became commonplace in the 80s, NYC had about 8 thriving revival houses. It was glorious to see classic films in a theatre with an audience (and it being NYC, the houses were well attended).
There were also a number of theatres then, like today, that specialized in foreign films. As a student at Columbia, my mates & I never missed the latest & best of international cinema.
Live in San Francisco now, but God, I miss the old days in New York...
I know exactly what you mean, although I'm still in New Jersey and New York is better now in most ways than it was then. I remember when I was about 10 or 11 staying over with my aunt in Rego Park. She brought me into the city and we went into a theater with a super ornate lobby, red velvet everywhere, and a thickly carpeted curving staircase up into a balcony, where we watched the movie, the title of which I unfortunately forget. It seemed boring at the time, but I'd love to be able to do it now. I can still see that lobby in my head.
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