Ziegfeld Theatre
141 W. 54th Street,
New York,
NY
10019
141 W. 54th Street,
New York,
NY
10019
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Movie Premieres are by invite only from the film distributors. They rent the Zieg from us for their event.
Does anybody know how to get Shows and Dates and Tickets to movie premieres at Ziegfeld??
Vito, I can’t I just can’t.It would take me years to get the image out of my head, if ever.
Maybe if they have a swimming competition using a pool on stage which they can then use for the old Eleanor Holmes number.
Vincent, my Italian heritage says it like this,
“I got ya front row tickets rii here” :)
I actually watched a bit of the game on MSN Friday, it’s sorta like a car wreck you pass on the highway, some how you just have to stop and look at it. They had chairs set up in the wings for people to watch the carnage, oops, I mean game and the players were actually gushing about playing on the worlds greatest stage. The whole thing made me sick.
This is all a revelation to me. On a dollar bill it says “The United States of America” but on a quarter it says only “United States of America.” In which of these places do I live? I feel woozy.
Hey guys lay off Warren!
Vito, when are we getting those 1st Mezz, 1st row center tickets to the basketball games at the Music Hall? Spike Lee wants to come too! And we all know what a great filmmaker he is and what a great contribution he’s made to american culture.
Ooops —– all in good humor. Really!
I agree that we need to be more sensitive to The Warren.
Come on guys, you know it upsets Warren when you ad THE to a theatre name. He has told us often enough :)
I urge everyone to write the Ziegfeld and request that they show a 70mm print of My Fair Lady to celebrate it’s 40th anniversary in October.
Also request that they hold a Todd AO 50th Anniversary festival next year kicking it off with a Todd AO print of Sound of Music to celebrate its 40th birthday.
I hope that Robert Wise is already preparing prints for this milestone.
No Sing-a-alongs please though I went to the finale night of this at the Ziegfeld and it was one of the best cinema experieces. It was demented and people behaved as if they were at an absolutely electrifying rock concert. Except of course during the wedding when the entire audience stood in respectful silence as Maria walked down the aisle.
Great place. I worked here in the early 90’s. It had to be 1990 when Prince’s “Graffiti Bridge” premiered. It is my most memorable moment. Prince is my favorite singer and the manager knew this. So she let me go into the theater and give him a Coke. When I walked up to him I boasted about how big of a fan I was. He just giggled and thanked me for the Coke. I came back a lot of times to see “Planet of the Apes”, all the Star Wars movies and many more films. I love this place.
The interior of the Ziegfeld and its lobby are featured in the last scenes of Woody Allen’s “Celebrity” back in ‘98, one of the most underrated movies I can think of. (Allen’s masterpieces weren’t the comparatively tame “Annie Hall” and “Manhattan” back in '77 and '79, they were the incendiary “Deconsructing Harry” and “Celebrity” twenty years later.) Oddly, though, the movie didn’t run at the Ziegfeld (which would have been a truly bizarre experience); the Brad Pitt flop “Meet Joe Black” ran there at the time instead.
Camden
JTH…it is a damn shame too. There is nothing like a 70MM presentation, that will even make bad movies a fine movie memoriy. I saw Staying Alive in 70MM , it was great. It seems that they are relying on this Digital Projection as the new thing and I must tell you I am unimpressed. I saw Attack of the Clones (at the Ziegfeld) in Digital Projection and I was not awed at all. Give me a good 35MM print anyday. In fact the 35MM I saw of Attack of Clones was much better than the digital.
I saw Lawrence of Arabia in 2002 at Ziegfeld in 70MM. AWESOME. Little did I realize that that would be the last one. Movies, as well as presentations are consistently going downhill, thanks to the youth oriented, quick buck making garbage of today.
70mm is a dead issue. Clearview will never spend the $$$ necessary to do it right. Trust me- the Dolan’s don’t give a damn and never will.
In remembrance of Marlon Brando, I can’t help but remember 8/15/79, the premiere of “Apocalypse Now”. Reserved seats were $5.00. I remember the anticipation through the whole film, waiting for Brando to come o, you could feel it in the audience.
In the opening scene, I actually thought there might be a band with a tamboreen (spelling?) behind the screen and that there might be a helicopter in the theater. I had never seen or heard anything like it, all in 70MM 6-track stereo. I can’t believe it was 25 years ago, it seems like yesterday. It’s too bad the Ziegfeld doesn’t show 70MM flims anymore. It was grand theater presentation.
If I remember correctly, when the theatre opened in 1969 weekend evening performances were supposed to be attended with men with sports coats and ties only and women in dresses, but I think this practice only lasted a week or two.
Hi Rhett and fellow readers of Cinema Treasures:
We are aiming for sometime in July or early August for the list to be finished and posted.
Manhattan is pretty well finished. Mike just came back from a short trip to NYC this week and filled in details for missing Long Island engagements (from 1955 to about 1974). He is scheduled to go back to the NYC and NJ next month and will fill in NJ engagements during that same time period. As you know, a lot of 70mm engagements weren’t advertised in the NY Times for NJ and Long Island until around 1974 with a re-issue of “Gone With The Wind.”
We hope you’ll enjoy this list when it’s published. I was going back on my notes and realized we actually started this project in 2002! There’s quite a bit of 70mm presentation that occurred in Manhattan, Long Island and Northern New Jersey. There will be pictures and ads in the publication, as well. Thanks!
Thanks Bill….BTW….how’s your NJ list of 70MM presentations coming?? when will it be available?
Thanks also to Porter.
Here’s a list of 65mm film-to-tape transfers for Laser Disc/DVD:
2001: A Space Odyssey
Baraka
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
The Greatest Story Ever Told
The Hallelujah Trail
Hello, Dolly!
Lawrence Of Arabia
Oklahoma!
The Sound Of Music
South Pacific
Spartacus
Star!
Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines
Tron
West Side Story
-courtesy of Mike Coate in Widescreen Review’s new “The Ultimate Widescreen DVD Movie Guide”
Remember the days when presented in 70 mm and Dolby stereo actually meant something. I still remember seeing Indiana Jones and the temple of doom in 1984, what a thrill! I wish we could go back to those days of showmanship by movie theatres.
I have been following with great interest all the comments about 70mm film presentations. Being from Lancaster, PA I have never attended a film at the Ziegfeld. However, back in the good old days of movie going I did patronize the Loew’s Capitol, Loew’s State (prior to “piggybacking”), Criterion, Rivoli, Warner, DeMille Theatres on visits to NYC and the desire to see “70MM Roadshow presentations.” When NYC was not on the plans, there was always the center city Philadelphia Theatres – Boyd, Stanley, Fox, Randolph, Goldman, Midtown. Now all but the Boyd in Phila. and DeMille in NYC are history. Count me in as a possible attendee of 70MM films at the Ziegfeld. I would love to sit in a theatre, actually see the curtains open as the lights dim, and then see a “giant screen presentation.” If anyone gets to the Central Penna. area, I would strongly suggest you check out the Allen Theatre in Annville, Pa. It was a small town run down theatre that a theatre lover restored. It actually has a curtain that “hides” the screen. And, although, it may not be a 70MM size screen, it is certainly the largest in the area that we have available. Anyway, bring back the old days when movie going meant more than sitting in a shoebox. The show started at the box office!
Rhett:
You ask about Laserdisc remasters from 70mm prints.
STAR!, the 1994 pressing of SOUTH PACIFIC and OKLAHOMA, 1991 pressing of WEST SIDE STORY, Box set of CLEOPATRA,SOUND of MUSIC,MY FAIR LADY were all from the 70mm masters. It is unclear whether MGM used the 70mm master of GOODBYE MR.CHIPS for the laserdisc.
Another two exceptionally high quailty discs were the Box set of THE KING AND I and the 1991 pressing of CAROUSEL both from the CinemaScope 55 masters.
Joe Masher is the guy in here we need to seduce…Joe, do you need a new car??
I think it’s great someone affiliated with the Ziegfeld is in on this dialogue..it gives all us film lovers hope, especially that Joe is a member here. I think it’d be great to see a 70MM fest at Ziegfeld, especially since the Astor is going going…..
BTW…does anyone know if there are any DVD’s or Laserdiscs that were mastered from a 70MM print??
Bill I beleive the ‘71 reissue of Lawrence at the Rivoli was in 70mm but it was cut so badly to allow more frequent performances that the NY Times published a piece in its Arts and Leisure section detailing the mauling. Reading this kept me from going.
Joe Masher that’s great news. With a lot of publicity and increasing interest in Todd AO and 70mm you should get some sizeable crowds and you won’t have to share the films with anybody else like you have to with Terminal. But is there any way to get rid of the detritus now shown before the film. When you showed Lady, Spartucus and Lawrence years ago it was so classy.
ZIEGFELD THEATRE [1969- ]
54TH STREET
NEW YORK, NY
70mm 6-Channel Stereo [1969]
Marooned [1969]
Gone With The Wind (70mm) [1970]
The Bible … In The Beginning [1970]
The Sound of Music [1970]
Doctor Zhivago [1970]
Ryan’s Daughter [1970]
Cleopatra [1971] (186 mins.)
2001 a space odyssey (70mm) [1972]
This Is Cinerama (70mm) [1973]
Earthquake (Sensurround) [1974]
Rollerball [1975]
The Ten Commandments [1975]
Close Encounters of the Third Kind [1977]
Apocalypse Now [1979]
Quest For Fire [1982]
Gandhi [1982]
Brainstorm [1983]
Antarctica [1984]
A Passage To India [1984]
Lawrence of Arabia [1988]**
The Abyss [1989]
Spartacus [1991]
My Fair Lady [1994]
Vertigo [1996]
Thanks Archives for the Ziegfeld titles in 70mm. I have some additional notes on some of the titles. I also have some additions.
*These titles were part of the “4 For The Ziegfeld” series.
**I don’t recall finding a “2001: A Space Odyssey” re-issue in 1972 in the NY Times, but I do have records of it playing in 1970, 1974, 1975 & 2001/2002. Do you have an opening date for the 1972 engagement?
***These titles were shown in 35mm. “Earthquake” seemed to have had 70mm engagements around the world, except for the U.S. “The Ten Commandments” did have some 70mm engagements, but not in NYC at that time, unless you have some info on that. Thanks.
****“Lawrence Of Arabia” was re-issued in 1971 at the [uA] Rivoli (though, a 70mm print is unconfirmed) and in 1989 in its restored version.
Some additional titles that played at The Ziegfeld in 70mm:
That’s Entertainment [1974]
The Jolson Story [1975]
That’s Entertainment, Part 2 [1976]
The Return Of A Man Called Horse [1976]
A Star Is Born [1976]
Tommy [1977/Re-issue]
Grease [1978]
The Muppet Movie [1979]
The Rose [1979]
Saturn 3 [1980/70mm presentation unconfirmed—Advertised February 10, 14, 15 & 17 only]
Fame [1980]
Can’t Stop The Music [1980]
Raise The Titanic [1980]
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind “Special Edition” [1981—originally opened at the New York Twin on August 8, 1980]
The Jazz Singer [1980]
Grease 2 [1982]
Raiders Of The Lost Ark [1982/Re-issue]
Pink Floyd The Wall [1982]
Yes, Georgio [1982]
Staying Alive [1983]
—through mid-1985