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  1. Thomas T

    Memorable movie theatre moments

    Seeing How The West Was Won in Cinerama in a theatre is one of my Holy Grails. It's shown every now and then at the Cinerama Dome in Los Angeles but it always sells out almost immediately. One of these days :(
  2. Thomas T

    Memorable movie theatre moments

    If Willard had been a William Castle production I would have been suspicious ;)
  3. Thomas T

    Memorable movie theatre moments

    I had the exact same experience the very first time I saw Citizen Kane (no, not the original 1941 release, I'm not that old!). This was when I was in college in San Francisco and a revival art house was showing CK on the big screen. I had never seen it and its reputation preceded it so the small...
  4. Thomas T

    Memorable movie theatre moments

    My own Return Of The Jedi story: a friend and I worked in the same office for the federal government in 1983. We both wanted to see Jedi opening day which was a work day (a Friday if I recollect). So several days before we both told our supervisor (separately) that we had doctor appointments on...
  5. Thomas T

    Memorable movie theatre moments

    Another indelible movie going experience for me was seeing Abel Gance's Napoleon (1928) at the Shrine auditorium in Los Angeles with a live symphony orchestra accompanying it. When the three panel triptych finale was revealed, the audience went crazy! The applause was deafening! That moment...
  6. Thomas T

    Memorable movie theatre moments

    In another thread over at the blu ray and UHD section, I was disheartened to see posts where some said they were pretty much over the theatrical experience since the closing of cinemas because of the pandemic and had no intention of "going back" and that their home theater set ups were good...
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