Agreed and noted, Bway and Lost Memory. I, too, used to walk and (less frequently) take the subway from Ridgewood to Forest Hills and Rego Park to see movies at the Trylon, Continental, Forest Hills and Midway.
Saturday December 22nd 1984 I saw “Starman” at the Ridgewood Theater. The following Saturday, the 29th (record high of 70 degrees, with old snow still on the ground) I saw “Dune” at the Continental 1 or 2 (now the Brandon). The Saturday after that, the first of the new year, January 5, 1985 (back down to 20 degrees, without the wind chill) it was “2010” on the big screen of Continental 3.
The above being the case, I suppose the Cinemart would have been even more endangered by the multiplex cinema once proposed for the southwest corner of Metropolitan Avenue and Woodhaven Boulevard, near where the Home Depot and Woodhaven Lanes are now.
I’m sorry to read this about the Cinemart being in danger from Atlas Park, Midway 9, and Brandon 1 and 2, especially considering the loss of the Forest Hills Cinema on Continental Avenue between Austin St. amd Queens Blvd. and Continental 3 (once the largest movie screen in Queens ?) on Austin west of Continental.
I wouldn’t have thought it, considering the distance between the Cinemart and Atlas Park, and Cinemart and Midway 9 and Brandon 1 and 2.
Whereas Midway 9 and Brandon 1 and 2 seems like “Forest Hills Movie Central” in a busy shopping + restaurant + transportation hub (express subway stop + LIRR ststion + bus stops and taxi stand), and Atlas Park is a new multiplex in a busy new shopping center, the Cinemart still seems like the neighborhood movie house, around the corner from quiet residential blocks, and across the street from the venerable and celebrated Eddie’s Sweet Shop.
mikemovies, I’m glad you liked my description. No, I haven’t seen ‘The Day The Sky Exploded’(1958). Reads interesting. Please tell me about it once you’ve seen it. Thanks.
How about Tom Cruise and Clint Eastwood in “Exploding Spaghetti Sky”, directed by Sergio Leone, music by Enio Morricone and Hugh Montenegro ?
NOW PLAYING AT THE RIDGEWOOD THEATER !!!!!
I’ve heard of spaghetti westerns but not spaghetti sci fi, but, hey, why not ?
OK, Gojira (1984) was the original Japanese release of Godzilla 1985 (USA) with Raymond Burr added. History repeats itself.
I think Zacherle got booted off TV for showing his dirty bare feet on camera, or something equally silly. I remember him having a head of cauliflower with wires stuck into it, in a tank, and him saying it was really someone’s brain.
I also remember him hosting “Hercules” cartoons in 1963 (the ones with the centaur named Newton) and introducing a commercial for a toy called “Bop The Beetle” (he called it “a new craze that was sweeping the country”).
I remember “Killers From Space” from Chiller Theater on WPIX, hosted by Zacherle, on in early 1970, and before. The bug-eyed, black-hooded, cumberbunded Marty Feldman-esque aliens are seen underground closing up Peter Graves' chest with what look like electrodes or soldering irons. When they show him an equation, Zacherle interposes a view of a scrap of paper on which is written 2 + 2 = 5.
There is talk of an electron bridge between their world and ours, and a rear projection view of a lizard blown up to dinosaur size. Also some sparking Frankenstein-esque electrodes. These scenes are in the opening title sequence of the original Chiller Theater, along with scenes from “The Cyclops”, “The Gorilla”, “She Demons”, “The Cyclops”, “Plan Nine From Outer Space” and “Attack Of The 50 Foot Woman”.
Enjoy “Killers From Space”, free of MST 3000 kibbitzing. It mocks itself. It doesn’t need MST 3000 to make fun of it.
Thanks for the link to Gojira (1984). Domo arigato, syanara.
Jeffrey1955 asked above what a “frak” is in French. Perhaps we need to consult the Milton Berle routine about the performers, Fric and Frac, or maybe the Gherkin Jerkers.
Le Krak ? What about LeFreak, by Chic, from early 1979 ?
Bway, I, too, remember a theater on the north side of the LIE with painted murals facing the LIE, of Spock, the Enterprise, Superman flying, but I just checked with a friend of mine, and that theater would have been at about 180th Street, or Utopia Parkway, just north of the LIE, in Fresh Meadows, but not at 108th Street in Forest Hills, as shown in the photo that you provided the link to.
What did the murals of the theater at the LIE and 108th Street show ?
Here’s the account of my sole movie-going experience at Loew’s Lefrak. Thanks, Bway, for directing me to this page.
Didn’t know there WAS a 1984 version of Gojira. On Labor Day Weekend 1985, I DID see “Godzilla 1985” with a silver-haired Raymond Burr, at a Lefrak City, Queens theater which is no longer there. It was Loew’s Lefrak. I took the Q-58 “Corona” bus from Ridgewood to Junction Blvd. and Corona Avenue, and walked to the theater, which was in a mini-mall, at 99th Street and some numbered avenue, in Lefrak City, of course, north of the LIE.
After the movie, I walked home to Ridgewood through Glendale past the home of my friends Rich and Kathy Dittus. Rich expressed some amazement then that there was a new Godzilla movie, He’s posted on this site about seeing “E.T.” at the Cinemart in Forest Hills in. Feb. 1983. His younger brother is on this site alot as “Bob D.”
Thanks Bway. All I could think of was Loew’s Corona Plaza, but that’s under the el at Roosevelt Avenue and 103rd St., and was where I saw the Matthew Broderick – Jean Reno female pregnant “Godzilla” right before Memorial Day Weekend 1998.
mikemovies, I’m glad you’ve tolerated the ramblings of a Ritchwoot alter kocker hungeleiter.
Didn’t know there WAS a 1984 version of Gojira. On Labor Day Weekend 1985, I DID see “Godzilla 1985” with a silver-haired Raymond Burr, at a Lefrak City, Queens theater which is no longer there. It may have been a Loew’s. I took the Q-58 “Corona” bus from Ridgewood to Junction Blvd. and Corona Avenue, and walked to the theater, which was in a mini-mall, at 99th Street and some numbered avenue, north of the LIE.
If this theater has a page on this site, and you can direct me to it, I would appreciate it.
After the movie, I walked home to Ridgewood through Glendale past the home of my friends Rich and Kathy Dittus. Rich expressed some amazement then that there was a new Godzilla movie, He’s posted on this site about seeing “E.T.” at the Cinemart in Forest Hills in. Feb. 1983. His younger brother is on this site alot as “Bob D.”
Agreed and noted, Bway and Lost Memory. I, too, used to walk and (less frequently) take the subway from Ridgewood to Forest Hills and Rego Park to see movies at the Trylon, Continental, Forest Hills and Midway.
Saturday December 22nd 1984 I saw “Starman” at the Ridgewood Theater. The following Saturday, the 29th (record high of 70 degrees, with old snow still on the ground) I saw “Dune” at the Continental 1 or 2 (now the Brandon). The Saturday after that, the first of the new year, January 5, 1985 (back down to 20 degrees, without the wind chill) it was “2010” on the big screen of Continental 3.
Thanks, Warren.
The above being the case, I suppose the Cinemart would have been even more endangered by the multiplex cinema once proposed for the southwest corner of Metropolitan Avenue and Woodhaven Boulevard, near where the Home Depot and Woodhaven Lanes are now.
I’m sorry to read this about the Cinemart being in danger from Atlas Park, Midway 9, and Brandon 1 and 2, especially considering the loss of the Forest Hills Cinema on Continental Avenue between Austin St. amd Queens Blvd. and Continental 3 (once the largest movie screen in Queens ?) on Austin west of Continental.
I wouldn’t have thought it, considering the distance between the Cinemart and Atlas Park, and Cinemart and Midway 9 and Brandon 1 and 2.
Whereas Midway 9 and Brandon 1 and 2 seems like “Forest Hills Movie Central” in a busy shopping + restaurant + transportation hub (express subway stop + LIRR ststion + bus stops and taxi stand), and Atlas Park is a new multiplex in a busy new shopping center, the Cinemart still seems like the neighborhood movie house, around the corner from quiet residential blocks, and across the street from the venerable and celebrated Eddie’s Sweet Shop.
Thanks, mikemovies.
Thanks for the lowdown, JKane.
What about “Dementia 13” as a Coppola “masterpiece” ?
Thanks for the humor, guys.
Thanks, Warren, that’s good to know.
Thanks, Jim, very good, spoken like a true Neapolitan !
Or is it Sicilian ?
True, how could Eastwood NOT translate, joined at the hip to Morricone as he has been, now going on five decades.
Yes, Coppola can go sleep with the Kraken.
Thanks for this info, BklynJim. Was that the most recent Oscar presentation ?
Next : Pino Donaggio for “Carrie”, “The Howling”, etc.
Morte viene dallo spazio, La (1958)
Now THAT’s Italian !
It’s what I got when I typed ‘The Day The Sky Exploded’ into the IMDb.
Ciao, shalom, l'chaim and excelsior.
Forty years ago today at the Ridgewood Theater :
“Hombre”, Paul Newman as the blue-eyed Jewish Indian …
I sometimes have lunch at a restaurant called Spaghetti Western near my place of work in downtown Manhattan NYC …
mikemovies, I’m glad you liked my description. No, I haven’t seen ‘The Day The Sky Exploded’(1958). Reads interesting. Please tell me about it once you’ve seen it. Thanks.
How about Tom Cruise and Clint Eastwood in “Exploding Spaghetti Sky”, directed by Sergio Leone, music by Enio Morricone and Hugh Montenegro ?
NOW PLAYING AT THE RIDGEWOOD THEATER !!!!!
I’ve heard of spaghetti westerns but not spaghetti sci fi, but, hey, why not ?
OK, Gojira (1984) was the original Japanese release of Godzilla 1985 (USA) with Raymond Burr added. History repeats itself.
I think Zacherle got booted off TV for showing his dirty bare feet on camera, or something equally silly. I remember him having a head of cauliflower with wires stuck into it, in a tank, and him saying it was really someone’s brain.
I also remember him hosting “Hercules” cartoons in 1963 (the ones with the centaur named Newton) and introducing a commercial for a toy called “Bop The Beetle” (he called it “a new craze that was sweeping the country”).
Thanks, mikemovies.
I remember “Killers From Space” from Chiller Theater on WPIX, hosted by Zacherle, on in early 1970, and before. The bug-eyed, black-hooded, cumberbunded Marty Feldman-esque aliens are seen underground closing up Peter Graves' chest with what look like electrodes or soldering irons. When they show him an equation, Zacherle interposes a view of a scrap of paper on which is written 2 + 2 = 5.
There is talk of an electron bridge between their world and ours, and a rear projection view of a lizard blown up to dinosaur size. Also some sparking Frankenstein-esque electrodes. These scenes are in the opening title sequence of the original Chiller Theater, along with scenes from “The Cyclops”, “The Gorilla”, “She Demons”, “The Cyclops”, “Plan Nine From Outer Space” and “Attack Of The 50 Foot Woman”.
Enjoy “Killers From Space”, free of MST 3000 kibbitzing. It mocks itself. It doesn’t need MST 3000 to make fun of it.
Thanks for the link to Gojira (1984). Domo arigato, syanara.
Thanks, guys.
Jeffrey1955 asked above what a “frak” is in French. Perhaps we need to consult the Milton Berle routine about the performers, Fric and Frac, or maybe the Gherkin Jerkers.
Le Krak ? What about LeFreak, by Chic, from early 1979 ?
Thanks, guys. Hopefully, links to the appropriate newspaper ads will soon be posted.
Thanks, all.
When was Lefrak City built, 1964 ?
I’m glad I jogged your memory, Bway. I don’t remember much about the inside. I think it was a triplex, two down and one up, but am not sure.
Bway, I, too, remember a theater on the north side of the LIE with painted murals facing the LIE, of Spock, the Enterprise, Superman flying, but I just checked with a friend of mine, and that theater would have been at about 180th Street, or Utopia Parkway, just north of the LIE, in Fresh Meadows, but not at 108th Street in Forest Hills, as shown in the photo that you provided the link to.
What did the murals of the theater at the LIE and 108th Street show ?
Here’s the account of my sole movie-going experience at Loew’s Lefrak. Thanks, Bway, for directing me to this page.
Didn’t know there WAS a 1984 version of Gojira. On Labor Day Weekend 1985, I DID see “Godzilla 1985” with a silver-haired Raymond Burr, at a Lefrak City, Queens theater which is no longer there. It was Loew’s Lefrak. I took the Q-58 “Corona” bus from Ridgewood to Junction Blvd. and Corona Avenue, and walked to the theater, which was in a mini-mall, at 99th Street and some numbered avenue, in Lefrak City, of course, north of the LIE.
After the movie, I walked home to Ridgewood through Glendale past the home of my friends Rich and Kathy Dittus. Rich expressed some amazement then that there was a new Godzilla movie, He’s posted on this site about seeing “E.T.” at the Cinemart in Forest Hills in. Feb. 1983. His younger brother is on this site alot as “Bob D.”
Thanks Bway. All I could think of was Loew’s Corona Plaza, but that’s under the el at Roosevelt Avenue and 103rd St., and was where I saw the Matthew Broderick – Jean Reno female pregnant “Godzilla” right before Memorial Day Weekend 1998.
mikemovies, I’m glad you’ve tolerated the ramblings of a Ritchwoot alter kocker hungeleiter.
Didn’t know there WAS a 1984 version of Gojira. On Labor Day Weekend 1985, I DID see “Godzilla 1985” with a silver-haired Raymond Burr, at a Lefrak City, Queens theater which is no longer there. It may have been a Loew’s. I took the Q-58 “Corona” bus from Ridgewood to Junction Blvd. and Corona Avenue, and walked to the theater, which was in a mini-mall, at 99th Street and some numbered avenue, north of the LIE.
If this theater has a page on this site, and you can direct me to it, I would appreciate it.
After the movie, I walked home to Ridgewood through Glendale past the home of my friends Rich and Kathy Dittus. Rich expressed some amazement then that there was a new Godzilla movie, He’s posted on this site about seeing “E.T.” at the Cinemart in Forest Hills in. Feb. 1983. His younger brother is on this site alot as “Bob D.”
Yes, BklynJim, I was a bit excited. Thanks for pointing out I had five in a row. When you’re hot, you’re hot !
It’s also the company I keep on this page, yourself included.
Good comparison between Japanese and American releases of “Gojira / Godzilla”. The former also made more sense in terms of sequels :
“If another of Gojira’s species is still alive …”
“No Cineaste Left Behind,” I say !
I say, too !
Even if it looks / sounds like :
“No Cine Ass Left Behind” or “No Pederast Left Behind”
(with pun intended, of course !)
Sorry, that just slipped out !
But it’s all behind me now !