24 hour movie marathon at the Grand Cinema
04-14-13, 07:49 PM
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24 hour movie marathon at the Grand Cinema
The grand cinema is a art house non profit theater that is trying to raise funds to go digital.
Anyways they agree having a movie marathon this up coming weekend. The grand is located in Tacoma Washington
http://www.grandcinema.com/page.php?id=247
Anyways they agree having a movie marathon this up coming weekend. The grand is located in Tacoma Washington
http://www.grandcinema.com/page.php?id=247
04-14-13, 10:16 PM
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04-14-13, 10:21 PM
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Re: 24 hour movie marathon at the Grand Cinema
so are these movies in 35mm ... 
??
here in DC, the Avalon Theater is presenting a screening of 'Side by Side' (the doc about director's shooting with digital cameras) followed by a post film Q&A with Washington Post film review Ann Hornaday to fund the theater's transition to digital projection.
??here in DC, the Avalon Theater is presenting a screening of 'Side by Side' (the doc about director's shooting with digital cameras) followed by a post film Q&A with Washington Post film review Ann Hornaday to fund the theater's transition to digital projection.
04-14-13, 11:12 PM
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Sigh. I wish that they wouldn't be trying to go digital, but of course they probably won't survive if they don't. Our generation probably won't get much chance to see film projected.
04-15-13, 12:33 PM
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Re: 24 hour movie marathon at the Grand Cinema
I love repertory houses, and I suffered the loss of my local rep house last year, but I have to wonder if they are worth saving when the prints available to them are so limited. Every rep house in the country plays a revolving program of the same classics, many of which are highlighted on that poster. Monty Python, Some Like it Hot, Treasure of Sierra Madre, Cabaret, Blazing Saddles, it got so old I stopped going years ago.
The studios don't make enough titles available and audiences have very limited tastes, even audiences for reportory screenings. That's what's killing rep houses, not the conversion to digital.
The studios don't make enough titles available and audiences have very limited tastes, even audiences for reportory screenings. That's what's killing rep houses, not the conversion to digital.
04-15-13, 12:41 PM
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Re: 24 hour movie marathon at the Grand Cinema
I love repertory houses, and I suffered the loss of my local rep house last year, but I have to wonder if they are worth saving when the prints available to them are so limited. Every rep house in the country plays a revolving program of the same classics, many of which are highlighted on that poster. Monty Python, Some Like it Hot, Treasure of Sierra Madre, Cabaret, Blazing Saddles, it got so old I stopped going years ago.
The studios don't make enough titles available and audiences have very limited tastes, even audiences for reportory screenings. That's what's killing rep houses, not the conversion to digital.
The studios don't make enough titles available and audiences have very limited tastes, even audiences for reportory screenings. That's what's killing rep houses, not the conversion to digital.
'Hands on a Hard Body' sounds kind of pervy...
04-15-13, 01:11 PM
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Here's a pretty in-depth article. I'll provide some choice quotes:
http://www.laweekly.com/2012-04-12/f...ollywood/full/
Already there are films [Hadrian Belove of Cinefamily] couldn't show for lack of a DCP-compliant projector. He couldn't get a print of A New Leaf from Paramount for an Elaine May retrospective he wanted to do. Ditto for Saul Bass' Phase IV for a Bass retrospective, and Andrzej Zulawski's The Important Thing Is to Love for a Zulawski retrospective. Studio Canal in France would supply only a DCP.
...Instead of a 35mm print, the studio offered Belove either a DCP or a DVD of Breakfast at Tiffany's.
...Instead of a 35mm print, the studio offered Belove either a DCP or a DVD of Breakfast at Tiffany's.
http://articles.marketwatch.com/2012...eater-owners/2
“We have a film appreciation class, and this year we can’t find prints,” said Long. “Paramount has quite a library and we sent them a list. All of the films we asked for were a 3 or 3.5 [4 being the worst quality]. They were scratched or broken, just a mess. Each year has gotten worse and worse. Next year, it won’t be a film series.”
04-15-13, 03:23 PM
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Re: 24 hour movie marathon at the Grand Cinema
I love repertory houses, and I suffered the loss of my local rep house last year, but I have to wonder if they are worth saving when the prints available to them are so limited. Every rep house in the country plays a revolving program of the same classics, many of which are highlighted on that poster. Monty Python, Some Like it Hot, Treasure of Sierra Madre, Cabaret, Blazing Saddles, it got so old I stopped going years ago.
The studios don't make enough titles available and audiences have very limited tastes, even audiences for reportory screenings. That's what's killing rep houses, not the conversion to digital.
The studios don't make enough titles available and audiences have very limited tastes, even audiences for reportory screenings. That's what's killing rep houses, not the conversion to digital.
