Embassy 1,2,3 Theatre
707 7th Avenue,
New York,
NY
10036
707 7th Avenue,
New York,
NY
10036
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AlAlverez, you are so right. Even TCM is going that way. Tonight they are showing Woodstock the Directors Cut. To be honest, it isnt bad, but I like the original better.
Thank you for this, Joe. It is almost impossible these days to find the original versions of WOODSTOCK, STAR WARS (A New Hope), BLADE RUNNER or APOCALYPSE NOW. I recently saw THE CURRENT WAR, “The director’s cut” of a movie that was barely released. The original “cut” is nowhere to be found for a film from 2017. We are entering a new era of “LOST” films. Casualties of technology, audience indifference, artist’s ego, and in some cases, like MULAN, politics.
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hey you learn something new every day. Psycho opened here June 1960. in Oct. 2010 Universal Home Video released a perfect HD transfer on blu-ray as a 50th Anniversary Edition. to which I was always under the impression the cut on the 50th Anniversary blu-ray was the same as the one that opened here June of 1960. but it isn’t. on Tuesday Universal Home Video will release a blu-ray of the original June 1960 cut of the film.
The Mayfair debuted three bona fide 50’s sci-fi classics,“The Day The Earth Stood Still”, “War Of The Worlds” & “The Blob”. All have been re-made. Opening day ads for all three now in photo section.
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to vindanpar- many times when a film left its roadshow engagement and went to the neighborhood theaters circuit in NYC it would state in the ad “direct from its reserved seat engagement complete and uncut”. when a film left its roadshow run I guess whether it was cut or not depended on how long it was. so the “continuous performance policy at popular prices” ad for The Fall of the Roman Empire(a film I happen to like) fails to state its not the same cut used for the roadshow engagement policy.
And it was most likely in 35mm.
The Agony and the Ecstasy was the third of 20th Century’s triple reserved seat play for 1965.
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in the ad stating that The Fall of the Roman Empire was switching from reserved seat to continuous performances it also lists the show times. while they don’t state it in the ad its a cut version and not the original roadshow print. you can surmise this by the running times.
Psycho opening day ad added to photos.
Hitchcock’s “Psycho” opened here (and the Baronet) sixty years ago today.
On a related note, here’s the link to a new 60th anniversary retrospective article which, of course, includes mention of a bunch of cinemas in which the film played.
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It was in 1976.
ridethectrain, have you found any pics of the marquee as the Mark Triplex?
Photos of the Embassy 2 3 4 is on Cinema Tour website https://www.cinematour.com/tour/us/24564.html
Frank Langella as “Dracula” was up there in 1979.
Maybe The Wiz?
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does anyone remember the last film advertised on the
HUGE sign over the Astor and the Victoria was?
Didn’t Melanie do a concert here in the 70s?
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to DEFG- I thank you for your reply but I’m a bit confused. are you saying the scene toward the end of the 1956 film and the 2016 BBC mini-series where Dolokhov rescues Pierre as Napoleon’s troops are leaving Russia was invented and doesn’t occur in the novel?
also might you know why Russian films in 1968 still weren’t doing live sync sound but dubbed in the dialogue in post production?
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to DEFG – I still prefer the 1956 Paramount version. why in
I only attended the theater after it was a triplex, and that balcony had the steepest rake of any theater I have been in either before or since…
I’m still in shock that it’s gone
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to Mark_L thanks info on War and Peace’s dates at this
theater.
Comfortably Cool- I too prefer the 1956 Paramount version directed by King Vidor. the full length Russian version recently released by Criterion doesn’t even have Dolokhov rescuing Pierre at the end. plus the dialogue wasn’t recorded live but dubbed in during post-production. so how do we know its even the voice of the actor we’re looking at?
That was the Russian-made version, not to be confused to the earlier and better remembered multi-international adaptation for Paramount Pictures release starring Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, and Mel Ferrer.
WAR AND PEACE opened at the DeMille on April 28, 1968 and closed on September 10, 1968. Presentation was listed as 70mm and stereo. It was shown in 2 parts, with one ticket giving admission to both parts.
You can also see that billboard in Midnight Cowboy. Jon Voight’s hotel room was across the street from it.
In that same scene from Sweet Charity, you can see part of the giant billboard that took up the whole block between 45th and 46th Sts., advertising Doctor Dolittle at the State.