I apologize for offending the Village. It is indeed one of the best remaining single screen palaces and deserves a visit every once in a while when something worth seeing is playing on it’s screen.
Saw WATCHMEN here last night in theater 10. Surprisingly digital projection AND sound were top notch. I guess there’s no need to go to the Village in Westwood anymore
What’s stopping these theaters out in the sticks from buying cheapo projectors hooked up to a dvd player?
<insert obligatory anti-digital gloom and doom comment here>
Seriously though, bring back GOOD 35mm prints and projection. The ones that aren’t dim, desatured, shaky, and don’t go in and out of focus. And without the stupid changeover marks.
The digital projection at Arclight has been disappointing nowadays. The 1.2k DLP presentations years ago were actually better. Iron Man a few months ago looked out of focus AND the sound was just plain weak. In the same theater last week The Dark Knight in puny Dolby Digital rocked the house. What’s up with that?
With the way it was being run they’re missing a grand auditorium with peeling paint, rickety seats, tinny sound, curtains that don’t move, a pitiful sagging screen, and no air conditioning. Closed balcony too.
Masking the bottom of the screen and bringing in the side masking would be a big improvement. The smiley effect would be minimized, the cross reflections would be reduced, and the cropping of the bottom of the frame would be gone.
It used to be that Grauman’s would get the big Fox, Warner, and Paramount films while the Dome/Arclight would get Universal, Sony, Miramax, New Line, etc. Now it’s all screwed up. Is it Mann or the studios that are leaving Grauman’s with nothing big to show?
I was there on 6/7 and the curtains only did the close/open thing once and that was after the “preshow” (ugh). They should close and then open after the trailers but oh well. I’m grateful they move at all at this point.
As for the idea that there should never be blank screen it’s nice to have at the end of the credits but there’s nothing more annoying than having the curtains close at the end of a trailer.
The director is talking about his own film which most likely was shot on 35mm and utilized a 2k DI. With the lack of care and the sloppiness of high speed printing today it’s no wonder the typical release prints would be inferior to the HD version which would be much closer to the source.
I’ve been boycotting that horrible multiplex since it was built.
I apologize for offending the Village. It is indeed one of the best remaining single screen palaces and deserves a visit every once in a while when something worth seeing is playing on it’s screen.
Screenvision is the devil.
Saw WATCHMEN here last night in theater 10. Surprisingly digital projection AND sound were top notch. I guess there’s no need to go to the Village in Westwood anymore
Still need more light on the screen.
Haven’t all those titles been shown on HDNet? I would also take newly struck 35mm prints over old HD transfers.
I would gladly go to Grauman’s more if they showed movies I wanted to see. Ditching the Screenvision preshow would also help too.
It’s a seat that moves so not quite.
Pretty sure Yes Man will be at the ArcLights.
What’s stopping these theaters out in the sticks from buying cheapo projectors hooked up to a dvd player?
<insert obligatory anti-digital gloom and doom comment here>
Seriously though, bring back GOOD 35mm prints and projection. The ones that aren’t dim, desatured, shaky, and don’t go in and out of focus. And without the stupid changeover marks.
1980s films. Lucky Iraqis.
//I dont know why anyone would even install this junk. Stick to good old projection and someone who knows how to run it.
I would agree if the prints nowadays weren’t garbage.
The El Capitan has a top notch DLP setup so I don’t think you’ll miss much.
The digital projection at Arclight has been disappointing nowadays. The 1.2k DLP presentations years ago were actually better. Iron Man a few months ago looked out of focus AND the sound was just plain weak. In the same theater last week The Dark Knight in puny Dolby Digital rocked the house. What’s up with that?
Whoever tweaked the sound in theater 10 upstairs deserves a raise. The bass sounded deep and powerful for The Dark Knight.
I was being sarcastic. Film prints today are so inconsistent in quality it’s not funny. The days of special prints are long gone unfortunately.
No one has 4k in their living room, yet.
Television theater? What a ripoff. Give me fuzzy high speed printed 35mm. ;–)
With the way it was being run they’re missing a grand auditorium with peeling paint, rickety seats, tinny sound, curtains that don’t move, a pitiful sagging screen, and no air conditioning. Closed balcony too.
Masking the bottom of the screen and bringing in the side masking would be a big improvement. The smiley effect would be minimized, the cross reflections would be reduced, and the cropping of the bottom of the frame would be gone.
It used to be that Grauman’s would get the big Fox, Warner, and Paramount films while the Dome/Arclight would get Universal, Sony, Miramax, New Line, etc. Now it’s all screwed up. Is it Mann or the studios that are leaving Grauman’s with nothing big to show?
Aww. Thought for a moment it would be the other Rialto.
I was there on 6/7 and the curtains only did the close/open thing once and that was after the “preshow” (ugh). They should close and then open after the trailers but oh well. I’m grateful they move at all at this point.
As for the idea that there should never be blank screen it’s nice to have at the end of the credits but there’s nothing more annoying than having the curtains close at the end of a trailer.
The director is talking about his own film which most likely was shot on 35mm and utilized a 2k DI. With the lack of care and the sloppiness of high speed printing today it’s no wonder the typical release prints would be inferior to the HD version which would be much closer to the source.
There’s a theater at Arclight that has top masking? It must be one of the smaller ones.
It depends a lot on where you sit as well. I think it’s a lot harder to hear the surrounds when you sit on the ground floor.