What Was The Hardest Film For You To See? (1 Viewer)

[Sultanofcinema]

During my movie lifetime. I always tried to see a film first day or several days after, knowing the movie might disappear. Risking my life in the 70's at the Plaza, Central and Fabian in Paterson, N.J. to see all of the blaxploitation and Kung Fu films, where could I see The Kremlin Letter, why is no one running Romeo Is Bleeding, seeking out the theaters that were running Hammer Horror in the 60's and haunting The Cinema Village, The Regency, The Thalia and The Film Forum for revivals of international films that barely reached our shores. Good or bad even De Palmas Body Double and Femme Fatale had very limited engagements. What lengths did you go to to find a theater running a film that you badly wanted to see?

 

[FilmCrazy]

Drove 300 miles to Dayton Ohio to the Neon Theater to see ‘This is Cinerama’ in Cinerama. Was definitely worth it.

 

[Sultanofcinema]

Drove 300 miles to Dayton Ohio to the Neon Theater to see ‘This is Cinerama’ in Cinerama. Was definitely worth it.

T do what you did, was worth every mile!

 

[Jim*Tod]

Drove 300 miles to Dayton Ohio to the Neon Theater to see ‘This is Cinerama’ in Cinerama. Was definitely worth it.

I flew to Dayton for the weekend from Richmond, Va to see THIS IS CINERAMA and HOW THE WEST WAS WON. Truly a once in a lifetime experience and also great to be around a group of people who were similarly fascinated by widescreen cinema. However to this day my friends and family cannot fathom why I would travel all that way to see a movie. Oddly enough my interest in Cinerama began when I was a little kid and my late father described the experience of seeing it to me. It took almost two decades after he died to have that experience myself. We have to be grateful to John Harvey for his technical expertise and the equipment to show these films as they were meant to be seen as well as New Neon manager Larry Smith. Harvey is no longer with us but from what I understand Smith now works for the film archive for the Library of Congress which is housed in Culpepper, Va.

 

[FilmCrazy]

I flew to Dayton for the weekend from Richmond, Va to see THIS IS CINERAMA and HOW THE WEST WAS WON. Truly a once in a lifetime experience and also great to be around a group of people who were similarly fascinated by widescreen cinema. However to this day my friends and family cannot fathom why I would travel all that way to see a movie. Oddly enough my interest in Cinerama began when I was a little kid and my late father described the experience of seeing it to me. It took almost two decades after he died to have that experience myself. We have to be grateful to John Harvey for his technical expertise and the equipment to show these films as they were meant to be seen as well as New Neon manager Larry Smith. Harvey is no longer with us but from what I understand Smith now works for the film archive for the Library of Congress which is housed in Culpepper, Va.

I felt very fortunate to have seen that. Also wanted to see HTWWW but it was sold out.