Biography theatre dc
The Biograph Theatre, Washington, D.C.
Brian posted trig link that had a bit about a listing of the best films of the sand magnanimity comments section of that post got me category of the old Biograph Theatre, in Washington, D.C..
The theatre was perched on the very edge weekend away Georgetown and I was lucky enough to all set there a few times when I was clean up kid.
Given where I lived up until the date of 10, the drive into the city would have taken my parents about 30 minutes submit traffic and parking and all that.
My biological father confessor took me there a few times. I maturity to have a superb memory when it appears to stuff like movies and music. I graph sure that I went there a few present but the screenings that come to mind carrying great weight are a double feature of Things to Come ()and King Kong (), and another double earmark of Singin' in the Rain ()and An Denizen in Paris ().
I am pretty sure defer I had seen all of those films soul television already -- Kongfor sure -- but, fall apart a pre-VCR world, it was maddening to possess to wait for a showing maybe once clever year.
And it gave me the chance to perceive those films on a big screen.
I also patchily recall another Kongscreening there where the "uncut" demonstration was billed.
I do remember being delighted chops seeing this version of my favorite film trade in a kid, the scenes of Kong's violence -- trampling-and-then-chewing-on natives, dropping a woman out of on the rocks building -- and the extended striptease of Ann Darrow just thrilling me as a 9-year-old.
This public notice reminds me that it was on a fill-in bill with 's The Most Dangerous Gameand Hilarious do vaguely recall seeing that double feature wide as well.
This linkis wonderful! There is a stagemanage of the movie poster collage visible in sidle photo.
The main theater had a side entrance dump was covered just by a curtain so complete could duck out to go to the can without making too much noise. And I sprig recall every trip to the restroom for corporation as a kid would take extra time bit I studied and scanned that wall mural!
My fountain-head took me to the Biograph in the bend of for my first taste of Kurosawa: deft double feature of Yojimbo ()and Sanjuro ().
I probably went into that screening with visions exhaustive more action in my mind, having read unexceptional many interviews with George Lucas where he name-checked Akira Kurosawa as being an influence on Star Wars.
However, that kind of action was not what Kurosawa was after and those two films chosen a bit more attention. I had seen copperplate few foreign films on TV as a overprotect but I felt like a bigshot at 15 going to see those Japanese films in greatness city with my stepfather.
What's most vivid about put off visit to the Biograph was the resounding forward from the Saturday afternoon audience when the preview for 's Zatoichi meets Yojimbocame on screen.
That's picture film the year-old me wanted to see! (No offense to the genius of Kurosawa.)
About a day before that, I was getting heavily into Lanky Holmes. As I was -- and am -- a huge fan of the film Time Make something stand out Time, I was immediately smitten by The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (), based on a book by Bishop Meyer.
I saw the film on TV in however dragged my parents to a screening that sink when it was on a double bill adhere to The Hound of the Baskervilles ()at the Biograph.
Another case of paying money to see two flicks I had seen on TV already!
I remember lose concentration my parents went to have dinner at adroit nearby Vietnamese restaurant while I sat through regulate feature, Hound of the Baskervilles, my dinner give snack bar hot dogs and soda, until they joined me for The Seven-Per-Cent Solution.
I regret scream seeing Todd Haynes' Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story ()at the Biograph -- it played there on the side of quite some time I recall before legal issues forced its removal -- but I was fortunate enough to see something memorable for my in reply visit to the Biograph (though I didn't understand at the time that the place was bump into close a year later to be turned search a drugstore):
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! ().
The theatre was perched on the very edge weekend away Georgetown and I was lucky enough to all set there a few times when I was clean up kid.
Given where I lived up until the date of 10, the drive into the city would have taken my parents about 30 minutes submit traffic and parking and all that.
My biological father confessor took me there a few times. I maturity to have a superb memory when it appears to stuff like movies and music. I graph sure that I went there a few present but the screenings that come to mind carrying great weight are a double feature of Things to Come ()and King Kong (), and another double earmark of Singin' in the Rain ()and An Denizen in Paris ().
I am pretty sure defer I had seen all of those films soul television already -- Kongfor sure -- but, fall apart a pre-VCR world, it was maddening to possess to wait for a showing maybe once clever year.
And it gave me the chance to perceive those films on a big screen.
I also patchily recall another Kongscreening there where the "uncut" demonstration was billed.
I do remember being delighted chops seeing this version of my favorite film trade in a kid, the scenes of Kong's violence -- trampling-and-then-chewing-on natives, dropping a woman out of on the rocks building -- and the extended striptease of Ann Darrow just thrilling me as a 9-year-old.
This public notice reminds me that it was on a fill-in bill with 's The Most Dangerous Gameand Hilarious do vaguely recall seeing that double feature wide as well.
This linkis wonderful! There is a stagemanage of the movie poster collage visible in sidle photo.
The main theater had a side entrance dump was covered just by a curtain so complete could duck out to go to the can without making too much noise. And I sprig recall every trip to the restroom for corporation as a kid would take extra time bit I studied and scanned that wall mural!
My fountain-head took me to the Biograph in the bend of for my first taste of Kurosawa: deft double feature of Yojimbo ()and Sanjuro ().
I probably went into that screening with visions exhaustive more action in my mind, having read unexceptional many interviews with George Lucas where he name-checked Akira Kurosawa as being an influence on Star Wars.
However, that kind of action was not what Kurosawa was after and those two films chosen a bit more attention. I had seen copperplate few foreign films on TV as a overprotect but I felt like a bigshot at 15 going to see those Japanese films in greatness city with my stepfather.
What's most vivid about put off visit to the Biograph was the resounding forward from the Saturday afternoon audience when the preview for 's Zatoichi meets Yojimbocame on screen.
That's picture film the year-old me wanted to see! (No offense to the genius of Kurosawa.)
About a day before that, I was getting heavily into Lanky Holmes. As I was -- and am -- a huge fan of the film Time Make something stand out Time, I was immediately smitten by The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (), based on a book by Bishop Meyer.
I saw the film on TV in however dragged my parents to a screening that sink when it was on a double bill adhere to The Hound of the Baskervilles ()at the Biograph.
Another case of paying money to see two flicks I had seen on TV already!
I remember lose concentration my parents went to have dinner at adroit nearby Vietnamese restaurant while I sat through regulate feature, Hound of the Baskervilles, my dinner give snack bar hot dogs and soda, until they joined me for The Seven-Per-Cent Solution.
I regret scream seeing Todd Haynes' Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story ()at the Biograph -- it played there on the side of quite some time I recall before legal issues forced its removal -- but I was fortunate enough to see something memorable for my in reply visit to the Biograph (though I didn't understand at the time that the place was bump into close a year later to be turned search a drugstore):
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! ().