I don’t entirely agree with you here, socal09. I think that there’ll always be people (myself included), who’ll want to continue going to a real movie theatre and watching movies as they’re really meant to be viewed; on a great big wide movietheatre screen, with the lights down low. Most of the single-screen movie theatres are gone, that’s true, but there are still afew left. Single-screen theatres or no single screened theatres, there’ll always be loyal theatre patrons, especially to what few independent, nonprofit movie theatres there are left here in the United States.
I also might add that, no matter how much anybody says how amazing 3DKTV on home theatres systems is amazingly like seeing movies in a real movie theatre, it just isn’t so. Absolutely nothing, imho, beats seeing movies on a great big, wide screen, in a true-blue movie theatre, and sharing the experience with other people, whether one knows them or not.
download free online movies; I just looked at the link. Not withstanding that I do not wish to contribute furthur to the death of the movie business, the vast majority of the movies available for downloading on that website seem rather junky…and not worth watching. Just saying.
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Cine Yaraon
Jan 6, 2010 at 4:48 pm
This looks like a cool theatre. Any photos of the interior? Just curious.
Oh, what a bummer!! What in the world did some lout torch the place for??!? To collect insurance, maybe, or just for the heck of it??!? I got a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach just reading this article, even though I don’t live in anywhere in VT, let alone in Springfield. I hope they get the place restored soon, and that the arsonist goes to jail!
This is worrisome, indeed. Who knows how many arsonists are running around out there?
When I saw The Dark Knight a year and a half ago, when it first came out, I saw it in a regular theatre, with no 3D added to it. I enjoyed the film immensely, and I thought that “Dark Knight” was
well enough done so that 3D wasn’t necessary.
I tend to side with movie534 somewhat on this one. While I occasionally welcome a new movie, I tend to agree with the idea that movie films are for theatres, and good movies don’t need 3-D added to them to make them worth seeing.
I, too enjoy perusing this site, reading what people have to say about old memories of movie theatres, etc., and, occasionally, adding a pearl or two of my own.
Wow!! The Paramount looks like it was a really majestic-looking theatre before it went to seed. The idea of renovating it is long overdue, but why couldn’t they keep it as a movie theatre as well as a party/dance hall, etc.?
None of these are my favorite films by a long shot, but the ones that came out this past decade that I considered worth seeing are as follows, in no particular order:
Hey…thanks, CWalczak! Maybe, just maybe, when the weather gets warmer and the winter passes, I just might drive up to this VT Cinema to see a classic sometime! Who knows?
download free online movies: Regarding watching old movies at home, whether it be via DVD or downloading them online; I say…thanks but no thanks. First of all, I prefer to watch great old classics on the great big, wide screen, in a real movie theatre with the lights down low, when they come around, and, secondly, I really have absolutely no wish to partake of the kind of piracy that’s involved in downloading movies online.
Hi, Bill Huelbig. You might well be right, depending whether or not West Side Story is playing closer to me at the time, although I’d love to also view “West Side Story” in a theatre such as the Lafayette Theatre.
Thanks, PeterApruzzese. During the week is kind of hard for me to make the six-hour drive down there, but, hey…maybe, possibly, during the warmer weather, if there’s a good Saturday morning classic, I might. Who knows??
Wow!! The Lafayette Theatre certainly is a fantastic-looking theatre, both inside and out. The auditorium, as well as the lobby and the outside, with the round marquee, especially full of people waiting to get into the movie, all made it look like a real old-fashioned, retro-type theatre, just perfect for showing some of those wonderful old classics. Would love to drive out there and take in a classic film there, particularly if it be that goilden oldie-but-goody keeper of a classic film, West Side Story!
That would be so cool to have the Fairmount Theatre restored as a movie theatre. If that be the case, here’s hoping that they don’t play the same sort of schlocky films that most movie theatres these days play, but a mixture of Classic films, independent films, etc.
I also might add, however, that I admittedly like the fact that movie theatres now have much more comfortable chairs, which comply with the contours of the back, and make for a more comfortable experience. The Coolidge and the Brattle, both of which underwent renovations fairly recently, now have such chairs in their theatres.
Who are you talking to, Simon Overton? Just curious.
I don’t entirely agree with you here, socal09. I think that there’ll always be people (myself included), who’ll want to continue going to a real movie theatre and watching movies as they’re really meant to be viewed; on a great big wide movietheatre screen, with the lights down low. Most of the single-screen movie theatres are gone, that’s true, but there are still afew left. Single-screen theatres or no single screened theatres, there’ll always be loyal theatre patrons, especially to what few independent, nonprofit movie theatres there are left here in the United States.
I also might add that, no matter how much anybody says how amazing 3DKTV on home theatres systems is amazingly like seeing movies in a real movie theatre, it just isn’t so. Absolutely nothing, imho, beats seeing movies on a great big, wide screen, in a true-blue movie theatre, and sharing the experience with other people, whether one knows them or not.
download free online movies; I just looked at the link. Not withstanding that I do not wish to contribute furthur to the death of the movie business, the vast majority of the movies available for downloading on that website seem rather junky…and not worth watching. Just saying.
This looks like a cool theatre. Any photos of the interior? Just curious.
Oh, what a bummer!! What in the world did some lout torch the place for??!? To collect insurance, maybe, or just for the heck of it??!? I got a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach just reading this article, even though I don’t live in anywhere in VT, let alone in Springfield. I hope they get the place restored soon, and that the arsonist goes to jail!
This is worrisome, indeed. Who knows how many arsonists are running around out there?
When I saw The Dark Knight a year and a half ago, when it first came out, I saw it in a regular theatre, with no 3D added to it. I enjoyed the film immensely, and I thought that “Dark Knight” was
well enough done so that 3D wasn’t necessary.
Kudos to you for naming “The Pianist” and “There Will Be Blood”, McGinty.
I will also add “The Pianist”, “Defiance”, and “The Counterfeiters” to my list.
I also might add that it warms me all over to see the CineStudio as one of the featured theatres of this already-wonderful site. Thanks.
Good points, vito. Thanks.
I tend to side with movie534 somewhat on this one. While I occasionally welcome a new movie, I tend to agree with the idea that movie films are for theatres, and good movies don’t need 3-D added to them to make them worth seeing.
Oh, and I also might add the following:
The Bader-Meinholf Complex
One Day in September.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
March of the Penguins
The Greening of Southie
The Good Shephard
Monument Avenue
Southie
Fantasia 2000 (not quite as good as the original “Fantasia”, but it was OK)
Volmer
I, too enjoy perusing this site, reading what people have to say about old memories of movie theatres, etc., and, occasionally, adding a pearl or two of my own.
Wow!! The Paramount looks like it was a really majestic-looking theatre before it went to seed. The idea of renovating it is long overdue, but why couldn’t they keep it as a movie theatre as well as a party/dance hall, etc.?
None of these are my favorite films by a long shot, but the ones that came out this past decade that I considered worth seeing are as follows, in no particular order:
Shrek III
Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Zodiac
Up
Dark Knight
Munich
Mystic River
Gone, Baby Gone
The Departed
Million-Dollar Baby
Gran Torino
There Will Be Blood
No Country for Old Men
Pan’s Labyrinth
Hey…thanks, CWalczak! Maybe, just maybe, when the weather gets warmer and the winter passes, I just might drive up to this VT Cinema to see a classic sometime! Who knows?
download free online movies: Regarding watching old movies at home, whether it be via DVD or downloading them online; I say…thanks but no thanks. First of all, I prefer to watch great old classics on the great big, wide screen, in a real movie theatre with the lights down low, when they come around, and, secondly, I really have absolutely no wish to partake of the kind of piracy that’s involved in downloading movies online.
Happy New Year and Happy Tenth Anniversary, CinemaTreasures. Thanks to the guys who started this great blog. I visit it whenever I can.
Hi, Bill Huelbig. You might well be right, depending whether or not West Side Story is playing closer to me at the time, although I’d love to also view “West Side Story” in a theatre such as the Lafayette Theatre.
Thanks, PeterApruzzese. During the week is kind of hard for me to make the six-hour drive down there, but, hey…maybe, possibly, during the warmer weather, if there’s a good Saturday morning classic, I might. Who knows??
Thanks for the exciting info, PeterApruzzese. I learn something every time I post here on this site.
Interesting article and photo, Joe Vogel. Thanks for posting it and sharing it with everybody here.
Wow!! The Lafayette Theatre certainly is a fantastic-looking theatre, both inside and out. The auditorium, as well as the lobby and the outside, with the round marquee, especially full of people waiting to get into the movie, all made it look like a real old-fashioned, retro-type theatre, just perfect for showing some of those wonderful old classics. Would love to drive out there and take in a classic film there, particularly if it be that goilden oldie-but-goody keeper of a classic film, West Side Story!
Thanks for the photos! They’re great!
One could safely say that, yes, the past decade was SUPER, SUPER, SUPER, but not in a good way, for the most part.
That would be so cool to have the Fairmount Theatre restored as a movie theatre. If that be the case, here’s hoping that they don’t play the same sort of schlocky films that most movie theatres these days play, but a mixture of Classic films, independent films, etc.
Wow!! What a changeover. All the best of luck!
I also might add, however, that I admittedly like the fact that movie theatres now have much more comfortable chairs, which comply with the contours of the back, and make for a more comfortable experience. The Coolidge and the Brattle, both of which underwent renovations fairly recently, now have such chairs in their theatres.