I think it WAS the Little Carnegie!! God those were wonderful places!
Hey-- any of you New Yawkuz got a 500-a-month closet to rent out for a
desparately culturally deprived (one can take only SO much Zydeco!) Big
Easy-ian who'd like to resume Big Apple-ing??
Joe
--- On Fri, 6/19/09, Richard Del Belso <rdel...@msn.com> wrote:
From: Richard Del Belso <rdel...@msn.com>
Subject: Re: [MOPO] New York Revival Houses
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Date: Friday, June 19, 2009, 11:44 AM
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Are you referring to the Little Carnegie cinema?
funny story!
Richard Del Belso
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:41:07 -0700
From: joebom...@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: [MOPO] New York Revival Houses
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
I discovered these wonderful revival theatres in 1964 when I moved to NYC and
lived in the West Side YMCA for a year (my rent-- $15.00 a WEEK!!!).
One of them was on 57th Street, I believe, not too far from Carnegie Hall (NOT
the CH Cinema.) They played the usual repertory fare.
One week the theatre held a Nelson Eddy/Jeanette MacDonald Festival and it was
indeed a hoot! The place was packed one night for a double bill. During one
moment, Jeanette's character was asked what she thought of Vienna.
Her reply, "Oh....very gay...very gay."
The shriek could be heard all the way to Columbus Circle!!!
And when the tumult died down, one unctious type snarled to the crowd, "You
bitches just have NO RESPECT!!"
That brought down the house again!
Those were the days!!!!!!
Joe B in NOLA-- but sincerely wishing he were living back in expensive,
fabulous New York!!!!!
--- On Fri, 6/19/09, Franc <fdav...@verizon.net> wrote:
From: Franc <fdav...@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: [MOPO] New York Revival Houses
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Date: Friday, June 19, 2009, 9:05 AM
Oh, was that you moving away? FRANC
-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Hershenson [mailto:brucehershen...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 10:04 AM
To: Franc
Cc: MoPo-L@listserv.american.edu
Subject: Re: [MOPO] New York Revival Houses
I don't know what years you went to college, but when I was going to the Elgin
(in the late 1960s and early 1970s, it wasn't just a "bit of a dive", it was a
COMPLETE dive! There were plenty of bums sleeping there (cheaper than any
hotel) and lots of drugs were being done. I never sat near anyone else, and
when someone would sit near me, I would move.
But they had cool movies you couldn't see anywhere else!
Bruce
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 6:18 AM, Franc <fdav...@verizon.net> wrote:
I used to make out in the Elgin when I went to college. IT was a bit of a dive.
The Elgin is still around. It was bought by the Elliot Feld Ballet Company and
is now called the Joyce Theater. It is devoted exclusively to live dance
performance. It's a great space. FRANC
-----Original Message-----
From: MoPo List [mailto:mop...@listserv.american.edu] On Behalf Of Bruce
Hershenson
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 6:31 AM
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Subject: Re: [MOPO] New York Revival Houses
I am surprised you guys haven't mentioned the Elgin.
I was a regular at all those from 1967 to 1972 when I left for Vegas. Those
theaters are where I saw the best foreign films, Fellini and Bergman, and all
the rest.
When I lived in Philadelphia from 1982 to 1989, there was a great theater
called Theater of the Living Arts (TLA) that showed two different classic
movies every single day on a big screen, with appreciative audiences.I didn't
know anyone there the first couple of years I lived there and I just lived a
few blocks from that theater, so it was heaven for me. But video did them in as
well.
I had always heard how great Trouble in Paradise was, and I saw it listed on
TLA's calendar, and thought few others would have heard of it, but I was wrong,
for the theater was packed full, and the audience (and I) loved this wonderful
movie. No better way to see a great comedy than with a packed theater of movie
buffs with a true "big screen". I would like to see "Some Like It Hot" that way.
I had a great experience one day in 1967 or so. I went to Manhattan not knowing
what was playing, and one of the theaters had a sign that said they were
showing a group of "experimental" films. I went in and sat down and at that
exact moment on the large screen was the scene from Un Chien Andalou where the
man cuts the woman's eye with a straight razor in extreme close-up!
That really freaked me out, and I had bad dreams for weeks after that.
Bruce
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Richard Del Belso <rdel...@msn.com> wrote:
I was a regular at the Bleecker Street between 1959 and 1971...saw many
wonderful films there, as well as at the Art Theater, the Waverly, and the 8th
Street.
Richard Del Belso
> Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:40:55 -0400
> From: r...@nostalgia.com
> Subject: [MOPO] New York Revival Houses
> To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
>
> And what about The Bleecker Street Cinema, which Marshall Lewis and I
> programmed for 4 years ( after leaving Dan Talbot's New Yorker where we
> ran a Monday night film society.) The site of the Bleecker is now a
> chain drugstore, but in its heyday ( the mid 60s ) it was a mega force
> on the NY revival scene. Besides screening classics ( many of which we
> unearthed from some very strange places ) the theater gave U.S.
> premieres to such films as Kenneth Anger's Scorpio Rising, Kurosawa's
> Lower Depths, a bunch of French New Wave films, several major American
> independent films, plus one of my favorites The Lady With The Dog.
> rudy franchi
>
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> greed and jealousy, All it takes to bring the community together is a
> flop by Peter Bogdanovich." Billy Wilder
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