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Events

CHICAGO, IL — “You’ll put your eye out!”

This familiar warning gets a fresh demonstration this summer in THE VIKINGS, the awesome widescreen adventure featuring a one-eyed Kirk Douglas. It’s one of several lessons to be gleaned from the Northwest Chicago Film Society’s latest calendar. Film Society habitués will also learn what it takes to survive as a gay black hustler in pre-Stonewall New York, what constitutes proper etiquette at a Beacon Hill dinner party, and how to make the crippled walk again! Who says learning can’t be fun?

The Northwest Chicago Film Society is proud to announce its eighth, extra-educational season, which will run from May 1 to August 28 at the historic, newly renovated Portage Theater. Building upon its specialty of screening strange films in beautiful 35mm prints (and, occasionally, beautiful films in strange prints), the Northwest Chicago Film Society’s summer season will span more than six decades of cinema history—from 1929’s sci-fi pacifist paean HIGH TREASON to Jim Jarmusch’s laconic post-acid, post-Western DEAD MAN (1995). You’ll get something different every week—and, with our newly expanded calendar, you can even get something different twice a week!

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Commentary

HAPPY 30TH, “RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK”
CELEBRATING THE ACTION-ADVENTURE CLASSIC ON ITS 30TH ANNIVERSARY

Compiled by Michael Coate

“The thing to keep in mind about RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK is that it is only a movie. It takes all the license of an exotic entertainment that aims to thrill and scare and strike one with a sense of wonder.” — Steven Spielberg

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Events

TORONTO, ONTARIO , CANADA — A special presentation of a cinematic masterpiece presented in breathtaking 70mm format, a most visually spectacular widescreen process!

“A rare and epic experience! This is picture quality you have to see to believe!”

“An epic drama of adventure and exploration!”

A movie you may not understand the first time you see it, so see it again and again!

Worth seeing just for the music!

The brand new TIFF Bell Lightbox, home of the Toronto International Film Festival just opened September 12, 2010. Of the 5 Cinemas, Cinema 1 which seats 549 can show 70mm films and as far as I know 2001 is the first 70mm film.

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Memories

[b]HAPPY 35TH, “JAWS"
REMEMBERING THE ORIGINAL SUMMER BLOCKBUSTER ON ITS 35TH ANNIVERSARY

Compiled by Michael Coate[/b]

Dedicated to:
Robert Shaw (“Quint”), 1927-1978
Charlsie Bryant (Script Supervisor), 1917-1978
John R. Carter (Sound), 1907-1982
Verna Fields (Film Editor), 1918-1982
Howard Sackler (Screenwriter), 1929-1982
Murray Hamilton (“Vaughn”), 1923-1986
Roger Heman, Jr. (Sound), 1932-1989
Manfred Zendar (Technical Advisor), 1907-1990
Chris Rebello (“Michael Brody”), 1963-2000
Lew Wasserman (Universal Chairman), 1913-2002
Peter Benchley (Screenwriter), 1940-2006
Roy Scheider (“Brody”), 1932-2008
Shari Rhodes (Location Casting), 1938-2009
Ned Tanen (Universal Executive), 1931-2009
David Brown (Producer), 1916-2010

June 20, 1975…the day the modern summer blockbuster was born. (Or so goes the legend.)

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Events

SUFFERN, NY — We’re announcing the Spring 2008 season – our 6th year! – of Big Screen Classics Saturday morning matinees at the historic Lafayette Theatre. These are movies, the way they were meant to be seen!

The Spring Season begins March 8 at 11:30 am – doors open at 11:00am for pre-show music with Jeff Barker on the Mighty Wurlitzer! All tickets – $7.00

March 8 – Alfred Hitchco*ck’s NORTH BY NORTHWEST, Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint – in Technicolor

March 15 – KING KONG, Robert Armstrong, Fay Wray – 75th Anniversary!

March 22 – GRAND HOTEL, John Barrymore, Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford

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Events

March 2, 1933 was a milestone date in movie history! That was the day that the legendary RKO motion picture, KING KONG, made its New York City premiere at Radio City Music Hall and it’s sister theater, The Roxy. It was a giant box office succes, despite being released in the midst of the Great Depression, when money for movies, even at 10 cents a ticket, was scarce. Over the past 75 years, King Kong has become one of the most, if not the most, iconic movie figure in history.

Now, while I cannot claim to be any kind of King Kong expert or geek/freak, here are some fun facts you may find interesting about this film:

• The story for King Kong was influence by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Lost World”
• Willis O'Brien’s ground-breaking stop-motion animation would later influence Steven Spielberg’s “Jurassic Park”
• It is ranked at #41 of the AFI’s list of best American Films.
• For subsequent theatrical re-releases throughout the 20th Century, the film featured several edits enforced by the Hays Office, in accordance with stiffer decency rules. These scenes included Kong peeling the clothes off of Ann Darrow and dropping a New York woman to her death from her apartment window.
• It was sold to television in 1956 and was the premiere TV airing for the WOR-TV Channel 9 “Million Dollar Movie”. It was aired many times inside of one week for repeated viewings.
• It was remade by John Guillermin in 1976 and Peter Jackson in 2005.

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Memories

“We Are Not Alone”

Here’s my “Close Encounters” 30th anniversary tribute…better late than never! (Had I not had a falling out with Bill Kallay, this probably would have appeared on the From Script To DVD website. And had I not been traveling extensively during November and December, I would have posted this closer to the film’s actual anniversary date.)

Anyway, enjoy the flashback! And please share your memories of seeing this classic movie.

RELEASED NOVEMBER 16, 1977
New York: Ziegfeld 70mm Six-Track Dolby Stereo

RELEASED NOVEMBER 18, 1977
Los Angeles: Cinerama Dome 70mm Six-Track Dolby Stereo

For the film’s general release, which began during the week of December 14, 1977, Columbia Pictures targeted 269 theaters primarily in major markets. Another 301 bookings began one week later. The majority of these original, December-initiated engagements are noted in the list below. (Please keep in mind that the small-market bookings, move-overs, second-run, international, etc. that began/took place during the early and middle months of 1978 have not been included.)

ALABAMA
Anniston: Plaza Cinemas III
Birmingham: Roebuck Plaza Dolby Stereo
Huntsville: Trans-Lux Twin
Mobile: Capri
Montgomery: Eastmont 1 & 2
Tuscaloosa: Fox 1 & 2

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