Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on Jul 6, 2014 18:34:21 GMT -6
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From Long, Long Ago, Georgia’s Oldest Theater Gets Oldest ‘Star Wars’ For Anniversary Screening
In something of a new hope for an old theater, Atlanta’s Plaza, the state’s oldest continuously operating film palace, will open celebrations of its 75th anniversary on July 18 with an extremely rare screening of Star Wars: Episode IV, the first of the six films (for the moment) in the much beloved sci-fi movie cycle. That original Star Wars film came out in 1977, then underwent a substantial cleanup of its VFX and more during the Special Edition version that came out on the film’s 20th anniversary. Disney officials confirmed that the digital print being provided the Plaza will be based on the Special Edition version.
A few years ago, during a special event spotlighting Star Wars’ visual effects at the American Cinematheque in Los Angeles, writer-director George Lucas said that he would never want to re-release the film’s original version featuring the old (though then ground-breaking) VFX, because the technological progress made in the ensuing decades allowed him to come closer to actually creating the movie that he saw in his own head. Whatever the version on screen, the original Star Wars hasn’t had a lot of runs in theaters in quite a while. But then again, when the movie came out, it stayed out, setting box office records and running in some theaters for more than a year (76 weeks(!) at one Beaverton, Ore., theater alone) as part of more than 6,000 engagements in the United States and hundreds more overseas.
The Plaza shows an eclectic mix of indie, arthouse and revival films alongside the occasional first-run screening, said theater manager Brandon Delaney. Its current offerings include the original Godzilla, Alien, Mad Max and the just re-released first Beatles film A Hard Day’s Night, which is celebrating its own noteworthy birthday, No. 50. The theater’s 75th anniversary screenings will include a batch of great 1939 films including Stagecoach, Wuthering Heights, The Little Princess, Of Mice and Men, The Flying Deuces, Four Feathers, Rules of the Game and Ninotchka. The theater also will show a digital restoration of the film retrospective That’s Entertainment, and another little film known for its Douglas Trumbull visual effects, 2001: A Space Odyssey, along with Rebel Without a Cause and that more recent classic about a very different rebel, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Tickets to the gala featuring That’s Entertainment are selling for $12 to $75.
From Long, Long Ago, Georgia’s Oldest Theater Gets Oldest ‘Star Wars’ For Anniversary Screening
In something of a new hope for an old theater, Atlanta’s Plaza, the state’s oldest continuously operating film palace, will open celebrations of its 75th anniversary on July 18 with an extremely rare screening of Star Wars: Episode IV, the first of the six films (for the moment) in the much beloved sci-fi movie cycle. That original Star Wars film came out in 1977, then underwent a substantial cleanup of its VFX and more during the Special Edition version that came out on the film’s 20th anniversary. Disney officials confirmed that the digital print being provided the Plaza will be based on the Special Edition version.
A few years ago, during a special event spotlighting Star Wars’ visual effects at the American Cinematheque in Los Angeles, writer-director George Lucas said that he would never want to re-release the film’s original version featuring the old (though then ground-breaking) VFX, because the technological progress made in the ensuing decades allowed him to come closer to actually creating the movie that he saw in his own head. Whatever the version on screen, the original Star Wars hasn’t had a lot of runs in theaters in quite a while. But then again, when the movie came out, it stayed out, setting box office records and running in some theaters for more than a year (76 weeks(!) at one Beaverton, Ore., theater alone) as part of more than 6,000 engagements in the United States and hundreds more overseas.
The Plaza shows an eclectic mix of indie, arthouse and revival films alongside the occasional first-run screening, said theater manager Brandon Delaney. Its current offerings include the original Godzilla, Alien, Mad Max and the just re-released first Beatles film A Hard Day’s Night, which is celebrating its own noteworthy birthday, No. 50. The theater’s 75th anniversary screenings will include a batch of great 1939 films including Stagecoach, Wuthering Heights, The Little Princess, Of Mice and Men, The Flying Deuces, Four Feathers, Rules of the Game and Ninotchka. The theater also will show a digital restoration of the film retrospective That’s Entertainment, and another little film known for its Douglas Trumbull visual effects, 2001: A Space Odyssey, along with Rebel Without a Cause and that more recent classic about a very different rebel, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Tickets to the gala featuring That’s Entertainment are selling for $12 to $75.