DO NOT MISS THIS: 3-D MOVIE EXPO II at the Egyptian, Hollywood....We're back!

First and only memorable 3-D experience: Disco Dolls in Hot Skin. Doesn't look as though they'll be showing that one.

 

D'oh! D'oh! D'oh! Can't these people schedule one of these to match my schedule and financial situation?

 

i missed Dial M for Murder last time. Hopefully, I will get to it this time. I heard House of Wax is the best.

 

Get these guys to take the show on the road to Manhattan! I know a lot of people who would show up!

 

A post on this movie forum explains why the last 3-D didn't make it to NY:
http://p219.ezboard.com/fscarletstreetthefabulousfifties.showMessage?topicID=28.topic

However, if some of these films make it to the Lafayette in Suffern, I cannot recomment this theatre highly enough. It's a beautiful movie palace, with a big screen.
On saturday mornings, they show old movies, and new movies at night.
Worth a trip to see "The Time Machine."
http://www.bigscreenclassics.com/newschedule.htm

 

woops, Stereoptic beat me to the punch!

 

Back in the early '80s the Eighth Street Playhouse in New York City used to run an annual 3-D film festival. I attended practically every showing. The theater has been closed for years, and since then I've never heard of another 3-D festival. Thanks for the tip, Steve! Now if I could only afford the flight to Los Angeles....

 

I'm such a sucker for all things 3-D. Maybe I need to plan a trip to LA this September...

Jason

 

I'm going, should nothing horrible befall me sooner. Hope to see some of yuns there.

 

DO NOT MISS THIS: 3-D Expo II....I'm so totally there!!!

This is so very very cool. They know enough to state flat out that none of these films will be screened in the red/blue glasses fake 3D method , but the real Polaroid lenses in those glasses.

I have been craving this kind of thing for ages. I saw The Bubble when I was a young boy in the theater in 3D, and have seen very little since that was done as well.

3D is to film what Quadraphonic 4 channel masters are to audio. A bit of a gimmick, not for everyone, but stunning and thrilling when done right.

And this will be done right, and you just know the rare stuff will not disappoint.

And the sound will be eq'd, balanced, and level'd by people who know what they are doing too. That Egyptian theater is fun to go to too.

 

Dial M for Murder is amazing in 3-D. Very witty use of the effect by AH. You're guaranteed to feel like a voyeur most of the time!

 

I remember those festivals at the Eighth Street Playhouse. My father used to take my brother and I many times. Thanks for bringing back those memories....

Todd

 

Disco Dolls In Hot Skin is being shown in 3D in Chicago at the Music Box on May 12th, 13th, 19th, & 20th.

They usually screen it at least once a year.


I hope I can make it out to LA for this festival!

 

Warhol's Frankenstein is great in 3-D. I recall seeing Dracula in 3-D as well, but now I'm reading that it wasn't shot in 3-D. Either my mind's playing tricks (no surprise there!) or it was some anaglyph trickery...

 

Saw this a few years back. It was shown on some kind of a special silver screen IIRC. The effect made my friend feel sick. I wasn't too thrilled with the film myself.

"Kiss Me Kate" is a fun musical. Would love to see that in 3-D. That dance sceen on the roof top is great. And, of course, the scene with Bob Fosse doing the duet (one of the three pairs). Shows you didn't always need Fred & Ginger, Judy or Gene to make a great musical. Think I'll put this on now.

 

John Holmes was in that. I don't think I'd want him coming at me in 3-D.

 

I love 3-D as well: movies, stereoscopes (like View master), holograms, you name it. In 1990 I visited New York and asked the taxi driver to take me to the Museum of Holography. He said he'd lived in Manhattan for 12 years and had never heard of it. But I had the address and when I showed it to him, he said "thanks for bringing me here". Too bad these expos don't come to Brazil, but some movies do. The first time I saw a holography exhibit I couldn't believe my eyes! There was a picture where you could actually look into a holographic telescope!

 

I've seen only two 3-D movies, both of which came out during a roughly 3-month revival of interest in the format in the early '80s. They were:

Spacehunter in 3-D: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone

and

Metalstorm in 3-D: The Destruction of Jared Synn

I deemed Spacehunter to be the better film. First, its director/producer/whatever had a better idea of how to handle the cast: the leading male character had no lines. In Metalstorm, by contrast, the production team allowed their lead to speak. Bad mistake! Second, Metalstorm proved to be about the most misleadingly titled film I've ever watched. I'm not quite sure what a "metalstorm" is, but whatever it is, there was nothing vaguely resembling one in the film, and what's more, far from being destroyed, Jered Synn got away at the end in a scene lacking only a blinking neon sign reading "Sequal Coming Soon to a Theater Near You" in the background to be complete.

As you'll have gathered from the foregoing, I thought both were great, if rather cheesy, fun!

(note: On advice of trusted friends, who used words like "stinkeroo" to describe it, I skipped "The Treasure of the Three Crowns," the third and, as far as I know, last 3-D film to emerge during that little flurry of studio activity.)

 

Actually, TREASURE OF THE FOUR CROWNS was one of the first of this revival, it's creators having raked in a surprising sum of money with the just as bad COMIN' AT YA! Neither of the films is any worse, or better, than METALSTORM, however. I enjoyed seeing all of these films in that second 3-D heyday. Others I saw in '83 (ish) were:

Jaws 3-D
Amityville 3-D
Friday the 13th, 3-D
Starchaser (cel animated 3-D)

Three others which I didn't see then:

Parasite (from the Metalstorm director w/ Demi Moore in her first role)
The Man Who Wasn't There (no Coen brothers connection)
Rottweiller