Post by Eddie Love on Dec 7, 2009 20:28:53 GMT -5
Wow, guys -- thanks for airing my verbose musings on your latest show 
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I'd love you to tackle an all Alain show! I got the Delon bug a few years ago and I'm a fanatic now. My favorites include Un Flic and Flic Story -- the latter isn't a great film, but as I asked in the title of my Amazon review: "Who's Cooler: Alain Delon or Alain Delon?" He defines magnetism in that picture. I think Tom said "Stone. Cold. Cool." and that says it all. (Also, in my email I'm afraid I said The Sicilian Job and I meant The Sicilian Clan.)
As to the late great Worldwide, you can call me a conspiracy theorist -- but I'm convinced The Man shuttered it's doors. I think the studios didn't want a cheap movie theater in Manhattan, allowing people to wait out a film's first run. The practice was immortalized in a Matt Scudder book where his girlfriend drags him to see an Adam Sandler movie there as a reward for their not having paid full price to see it.
One of my favorite Worldwide moments was during From Dusk 'til Dawn the young patron in front of me turned and -- crack pipe in hand -- politely asked if I had a light. Ahh, memories...
They later tried to turn the huge multiplex (that I dubbed "Branson's Folly") at the Virgin megastore into a part Indian theater / part half-price, but it didn't take. Similar to your Paranormal Activity experience, I was there to see the Walking Tall remake with The Rock and the picture went on automatically, but the lights never went down. After searching around for someone to turn down the lights and rather than climb three flights to the box office, I went into the projection booth and did it myself.
Also, I said the Paris and Ziegfeld were the only single screens left in Manhattan, but I think there still may be the one at 62nd and B'way.
Also, re: intermissions, I think the last two major films that weren't re-issues to include them were Gandhi and then Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet.
Anyway -- another great show -- and thanks for the shout-out.
. I'd love you to tackle an all Alain show! I got the Delon bug a few years ago and I'm a fanatic now. My favorites include Un Flic and Flic Story -- the latter isn't a great film, but as I asked in the title of my Amazon review: "Who's Cooler: Alain Delon or Alain Delon?" He defines magnetism in that picture. I think Tom said "Stone. Cold. Cool." and that says it all. (Also, in my email I'm afraid I said The Sicilian Job and I meant The Sicilian Clan.)
As to the late great Worldwide, you can call me a conspiracy theorist -- but I'm convinced The Man shuttered it's doors. I think the studios didn't want a cheap movie theater in Manhattan, allowing people to wait out a film's first run. The practice was immortalized in a Matt Scudder book where his girlfriend drags him to see an Adam Sandler movie there as a reward for their not having paid full price to see it.
One of my favorite Worldwide moments was during From Dusk 'til Dawn the young patron in front of me turned and -- crack pipe in hand -- politely asked if I had a light. Ahh, memories...
They later tried to turn the huge multiplex (that I dubbed "Branson's Folly") at the Virgin megastore into a part Indian theater / part half-price, but it didn't take. Similar to your Paranormal Activity experience, I was there to see the Walking Tall remake with The Rock and the picture went on automatically, but the lights never went down. After searching around for someone to turn down the lights and rather than climb three flights to the box office, I went into the projection booth and did it myself.
Also, I said the Paris and Ziegfeld were the only single screens left in Manhattan, but I think there still may be the one at 62nd and B'way.
Also, re: intermissions, I think the last two major films that weren't re-issues to include them were Gandhi and then Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet.
Anyway -- another great show -- and thanks for the shout-out.
