National Theatre
10925 Lindbrook Drive,
Los Angeles,
CA
90024
10925 Lindbrook Drive,
Los Angeles,
CA
90024
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Yes!!! It is good to see people around the boxoffice, and appreciating a venue such as the National. It is sad to see the marquee carved up like they did in removing the Mann name, but maybe (probally not) they’ll replace it with something. Also excellant work on the part of Michael Coates with the booking list ,very well done!
Nice to see a gathering of people around the box office…
wow thats when i was working there (re: above photo) in fact i’m probably in that photo somewhere. Wouldn’t it be neat to go back in time and walk around observing yourself anonymously
Here is a 1984 photo from the UCLA collection
http://tinyurl.com/2ejk32
Does anyone know if they have changed the “Mann” sign that is perched in top of the “National” sign. I am out of town for a month and it is driving me crazy to not be able see what they have done to my favorite theatre!
Paris je t aime
I believe this film is also on COMCAST CABLE PAY PER VIEW…SAW THE AD THAT SAID RELEASED SAME DAY AS THEATERS ORDER NOW………..
I was following the bad movie thread and not the Mann National thread. Sorry about the confusion.
I saw it at the Sam Eric on Chestnut Street in Philadelphia. It was the Four Seasons. Middle age couples having some kind of mid life crisis.
ken mc, you are referring to The Four Seasons which was released in 1981. According to Michael Coate’s exhaustive list posted above, it never played the National. I bet it played at the Regent.
ken mc was that film “The Four Seasons”?
y'know John Steiner the villain in YOR is now a real estate agent in Los Angeles, he’s an old friend of mine. I love the idea that the YOR discussion is taking over the National thread, hehe
‘“Paris, Je T’aime” has been booked at the National begining today.’
A wonderful film (saw it at last year’s Vancouver International Film Festival) and one that would look and sound just amazing at the National. Go check it out!
I recall seeing a movie in 1980 when I was a freshman in college. Some atrocity with Alan Alda and Rita Moreno. It was a rainy weekday, and I was the only one in the theater, besides the projectionist I suppose. Twenty seven years later and I still remember sitting in the middle row waiting for the movie to end.
Well it’s no longer a Mann Theatre.
Someone recently changed the name here at CinemaTreasures from ‘Mann National Theatre’ to ‘National Westwood Theatre’.
Is this definitely the name the theatre is now using on signs and advertising?
I love bad movies. I actually own Yor on Laser Disc….
I saw Yor at the Budco Goldman in Philadelphia in the summer of 1983. Funny how bad movies stick in your memory.
“Paris, Je T’aime” has been booked at the National begining today. Sounds interesting. I may go tomorrow to see it even though it is in walking distance from me at the Sunset 5. Since the National days are still numbered I will have to go as much as I can. Has anybody been there since the re-opening?
Remember, Yor was a Columbia Pictures release.
Another huge thanks to Michael for the “master list” of films that played the National. Some bizarro choices there. I’d also love to read that article.
I’m curious if anyone has visited the re-opened National? If it’s true that it’s only going to be open another year, that might be reason enough to drag myself and my Canon Rebel XTi cam down to LA. ;)
I’m equally amazed about “Yor,” but I would use my time machine to go back and see “Phantom of the Paradise.”
I also can’t believe how long some of those 70’s titles ran. And they say that the theatre is empty now! It must have been a ghost town in the 11th week of “Lost Horizon” or the 7th week of “I Love My Wife.”
As for the other news, we’ve now got a year to stop it. Does anyone have a plan, beyond kidnapping UCLA students and forcing them to walk the two extra blocks from the Village and Bruin?
I remember when YOR was there (only in the early 80’s could such a thing happen) and I think Fire & Ice was at the Cineramadome around the same time, I remember seeing SpaceHunter and Krull there too. Audiences were laughing it off the screen but i loved it. I remember when sneaking in to see Krull someone coming out the exit doors saying “you don’t want to sneak into that it ain’t worth it!!”
Also “Krull” and “Spacehunter” playing a few weeks before that! What a summer!
I cannot believe “Yor: The Hunter From the Future” played at the National. Oh if I were able to go back in time…