My 2 cents worth on “Brothers Grimm” (1 Viewer)

[Jim*Tod]

The Seattle Cinerama is officially closed? So that leaves only Bradford as a venue for Cinerama?

 

[Stephen_J_H]

The Seattle Cinerama is officially closed? So that leaves only Bradford as a venue for Cinerama?

I'm on the Seattle Cinerama's mailing list, and they've been indicating for several months they they are closed "indefinitely." The most recent emails I've received have been all about refunds. Check out the homepage: https://cinerama.com/

 

[RichMurphy]

With the passing of its founder, Paul Allen, Vulcan was moving away from its support of Allen's pet projects, of which the Seattle Cinerama was one.

https://www.seattletimes.com/entert...which-includes-cinerama-and-seattle-art-fair/

 

[RolandL]

Movie fans launch petition to save Cinerama dome

ArcLight locations include the iconic Pacific Cinerama Dome on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood and five other LA-area locations. Pacific Theaters had six locations in the Los Angeles area.

www.dailynews.com

 

[haineshisway]

Movie fans launch petition to save Cinerama dome

ArcLight locations include the iconic Pacific Cinerama Dome on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood and five other LA-area locations. Pacific Theaters had six locations in the Los Angeles area.

www.dailynews.com

Those endless change.org petitions are pointless - they've never "changed" a single thing.

 

[Josh Steinberg]

I think the first point worth mentioning is that the source article for all of the closings sites that it’s most likely a negotiation tactic for the leases - the landlords apparently don’t want to budge on back rent they couldn’t pay when they were legally required to be closed, and the chain sounds like they’re almost daring the landlord to find another tenant that could do better sooner, which seems very unlikely. Another chain isn’t likely to want to take over the locations and demolishing the buildings to convert the land into something else takes a long time, and there’s never a guarantee that a new business would do any better than the old one.

The second point is that the Dome itself is apparently a registered landmark which means it can’t just be demolished. If that’s true, the worst case may simply be that someone else buys it and runs it.

 

[DigniT@DigniT!]

I think the first point worth mentioning is that the source article for all of the closings sites that it’s most likely a negotiation tactic for the leases - the landlords apparently don’t want to budge on back rent they couldn’t pay when they were legally required to be closed, and the chain sounds like they’re almost daring the landlord to find another tenant that could do better sooner, which seems very unlikely. Another chain isn’t likely to want to take over the locations and demolishing the buildings to convert the land into something else takes a long time, and there’s never a guarantee that a new business would do any better than the old one.

The second point is that the Dome itself is apparently a registered landmark which means it can’t just be demolished. If that’s true, the worst case may simply be that someone else buys it and runs it.

My hope is that it is annexed by the Academy or the complex is bought by Netflix or another company, in the way that the Paris theatre in NYC has been... only time will tell...

 

[usrunnr]

I also thought the Dome was a National Historic Landmark, or something to that effect. If that is true, I assume it could not be torn down. But are we not getting ahead of ourselves here, as Josh implied?

It is sad to think of the Dome not being there. I do remember the Aquarius theater next door, formerly home of "Queen For a Day". Wallach's Music City across the street. And more. It's a historic area.

My Spanish class attended "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World at the Dome's premiere. Many movies after that. Memories dim, but I remember "Grand Prix", "Battle of the Bulge", "Close Encounters", "Barry Lyndon", "Apocalypse Now", "Tommy", "Young Frankenstein(?)", and, of course revivals of "2001: A Space Odyssey", "How the West Was Won", and many Cinerama travel films.

It is, indeed, a sad day.

 

[Paul Penna]

The second point is that the Dome itself is apparently a registered landmark which means it can’t just be demolished.

Not the case, I'm afraid.

https://www.thisoldcity.com/why-national-historical-landmarks-arent-safe-from-getting-torn-down/

 

[Neil S. Bulk]

The second point is that the Dome itself is apparently a registered landmark which means it can’t just be demolished. If that’s true, the worst case may simply be that someone else buys it and runs it.

"Someone else" would not be the ArcLight staff, and I worry that if the Dome opens under new management, it won't be the same. Going to an ArcLight was special. They didn't show ads. They didn't show more than three trailers. They had a host introduce each movie. And they did all sorts of special screenings. I may have seen more repertory films in the Dome than new films.

 

[Josh Steinberg]

I saw Ghostbusters there during its reissue a few years ago - really nice place, and I sincerely hope it remains a classy and above average experience. I’ve never been able to get the timing right but I’ve long wanted to attend actual Cinerama films there.

 

[haineshisway]

I also thought the Dome was a National Historic Landmark, or something to that effect. If that is true, I assume it could not be torn down. But are we not getting ahead of ourselves here, as Josh implied?

It is sad to think of the Dome not being there. I do remember the Aquarius theater next door, formerly home of "Queen For a Day". Wallach's Music City across the street. And more. It's a historic area.

My Spanish class attended "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World at the Dome's premiere. Many movies after that. Memories dim, but I remember "Grand Prix", "Battle of the Bulge", "Close Encounters", "Barry Lyndon", "Apocalypse Now", "Tommy", "Young Frankenstein(?)", and, of course revivals of "2001: A Space Odyssey", "How the West Was Won", and many Cinerama travel films.

It is, indeed, a sad day.

Just to be completely LA accurate The Aquarius wasn't the Aquarius for Queen of the Day, it was Frank Sennes' Moulin Rouge and it wasn't exactly next door to the Dome, it was three or four blocks east of there. Wallichs with an "i" and no apostrophe was two blocks from the Dome on the northwest corner of Sunset and Vine. It was incredible back then. I went to the Moulin Rouge several times - my best two memories are seeing The Three Stooges in person there in 1959 and being taken backstage before the show and having my photo taken with them (oh, if I only had that now), and then seeing West Side Story, a production riding on the successful coattails of the movie - very cheaply done, but having many original cast members, like Tony Mordente, Chita Rivera, Tucker Smith, David Winters, etc - Maria was Carla Alberghetti sister of Anna Maria.

 

[titch]

The Cinerama Dome has always been a theatre for prestigious premieres for the film companies. Even people, such as myself, who have never been to LA, have read about it.

Quentin Tarantino Blasts Disney On Howard Stern Show As ‘Force Awakens’ Pushes ‘The Hateful Eight’ Out Of Cinerama Dome

Quentin Tarantino went on the Howard Stern Sirius radio show and spoke about how Disney is strong-arming Arclight Cinemas to push the director’s 70MM presentation of his eighth film The Hatef…

deadline.com

The main question nobody will be able to answer today, is what the future of cinema going will be.

 

[cinemiracle]

The closing of the Dome is but one of thousands of famous cinemas around the world that have closed.. In the city where I was born there is only one out of a dozen city cinemas in the sixties, that is still standing and open. Almost all those great cinemas that screened large format films have been demolished. The famous Capitol in NYC (my all time favourite cinema),The Rivoli and Warner Cinerama also both in NYC were always the places to see movies on their large curved screens. Sadly there is now no cinema in the world that one can experience the thrill of seeing a Cinerama film as they are meant to be seen. Bradford may still show cinerama films but there is no real cinerama experience with their small screen not protruding out into the audience.

 

[TravisR]

The Cinerama Dome has always been a theatre for prestigious premieres for the film companies. Even people, such as myself, who have never been to LA, have read about it.

Quentin Tarantino Blasts Disney On Howard Stern Show As ‘Force Awakens’ Pushes ‘The Hateful Eight’ Out Of Cinerama Dome

Quentin Tarantino went on the Howard Stern Sirius radio show and spoke about how Disney is strong-arming Arclight Cinemas to push the director’s 70MM presentation of his eighth film The Hatef…

deadline.com

The main question nobody will be able to answer today, is what the future of cinema going will be.

QT even featured the Cinerama Dome (Krakatoa East of Java was playing) in a wonderful montage in Once Upon A TIme... In Hollywood.

 

[cinemel1]

The closing of the Dome is but one of thousands of famous cinemas around the world that have closed.. In the city where I was born there is only one out of a dozen city cinemas in the sixties, that is still standing and open. Almost all those great cinemas that screened large format films have been demolished. The famous Capitol in NYC (my all time favourite cinema),The Rivoli and Warner Cinerama also both in NYC were always the places to see movies on their large curved screens. Sadly there is now no cinema in the world that one can experience the thrill of seeing a Cinerama film as they are meant to be seen. Bradford may still show cinerama films but there is no real cinerama experience with their small screen not protruding out into the audience.

Loved going to the NY theatres mentioned. When I visited LA in the 1970s I made it my business to get to the Cinerama dome. Unfortunate, the film playing was the original Rollerball. It didn’t show off the great screen and sound very well.

 

[mark brown]

Rollerball in 70mm looked and sounded great at the Continental in OKC!

 

[Neil S. Bulk]

QT even featured the Cinerama Dome (Krakatoa East of Java was playing) in a wonderful montage in Once Upon A TIme... In Hollywood.

And the audience I saw it with in the Dome went crazy when that happened.

 

[RolandL]

Don’t Worry, the Cinerama Dome Won’t Get Demolished (Probably)

There was a plan in 1998 to demolish the Dome - https://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/CA-01-037-0069

 

[TravisR]

And the audience I saw it with in the Dome went crazy when that happened.

I bet! That's the kind of experience you don't get when you see the movie in suburban Philadelphia.