Cinerama Hollywood

I think only the front rows get the advantage of the curved screen, as the image fills more of their field of vision. As you move farther back, the effect is lost. The last feature I saw at the Dome was Iron Man, and the image was neither dark nor soft. I noticed that the AMPAS logo on the trailers was warped, but I didn’t notice any distortion during the feature. I was sitting in about the middle of the house.

Moviefone also has the Dome feature indicated.

ahh, the guy who’d rather see digital presentation than 35mm? Well, hey as a film purist i’m with you there, I endlessly complain about the loss of 70mm, audiences these days don’t realize just how much better 70 was but the cost differences just couldn’t justify “progress” in the name of technology and mindless automation. Don’t worry, we’re still a few years away from seeing everything as a pixilated i-pod flash clip but it ain’t that far off. It’s all over anyway, so i pretty much stopped caring accepting the end of the world, the days when films were actually good and genuine cinemas & movie palaces existed, when films were an event, when things had more character, and the experience was gratifying, meaningful, before over-inflated ticket prices & parking enforcement drones, before everything became a target audience market niche, a comic book/videogame, when there was real life and possibilities, when everyone didn’t have that glazed empty dead look in their eyes, and, oh well you get the idea, those days are gone.

Instead of directing your anger at some trivial post, you should direct it at the fact that the Arclight doesn’t advertise what’s specifically playing in the Dome ! That would make much more sense, oh and at that silly assigned seating business!

who said that? it wasn’t me, what post are you referring to?
Btw, just about all the screens have excellent sound and good picture, and as a sound designer/mixer i can tell you the best equipped screens at this theatre have the best sound i’ve heard anywhere, at least since the old days at the Plitt in Century City with their Klipsch speaker system

One question I’d really like to know is…why doesn’t the Arclight advertise what’s playing specifically in the dome opposed to bunching all the show-times together? Now, as far as multiplexes go I like the arclight, and I can live with the fact the the old beloved cineramadome (with it’s more attractive marquee and sign display in the old days when the entrance was in the front, like the Chinese,..which naturally made more sense) became the pricey Arclight, that’s life. But the two things that really bother me are; the assigned seating, which just doesn’t work far as i’m concerned, they should have eliminated that long ago, and bunching the showtimes together with no idea what’s playing in what theater.

Currently, I am visiting LA after 7 years of absence. (I am from Japan, and I used to live here for 11 years.) I just saw ‘Iron Man" at the Dome, and I am very happy to know that the the theater is back with much better pic & sound quality. (When I left L.A., the Dome was still in renovation.) I live in a city called Osaka in Japan, and we used have a Cinerama theater called OS Cinerama. It was actually a sister theater to Cinerama Dome, and the interior was exactly same. Everytime I visit the Dome, it reminds me of the days I enjoyed many of 70mm films at OS Cinerama. I am really glad that Cinerama Dome still exists and gives us the most ideal presentation of the movies. By the way, I have tried to get a ticket for the very first show of Indy 4 online, however the the particular show had been sold-out instantly. But when I bitched about it to a box office lady in person yesterday, she said there are still some tickets left. Then she helped me to get a great seat for the very first midnight show of Indy 4. Thanks to the friendly lady at the box office! On the other hand, I was not happy at all that the gift shop doesn’t carry any Cinerama-related souvenirs any more. There used to be key-chains, photo-frames, baseball caps, stickers, and all. I really wish that they will start selling those again. I would like to take something from the Dome home.

Re-premiere of It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World at the Cinerama Dome twenty years ago. Lots of familiar faces.

Part 1
http://youtube.com/watch?v=FSY47UEvOuc

Part 2
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Part 3
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http://www.in70mm.com/index.htm

Yikes — this is the first I’m hearing about it. We’ll look into it. Thanks for letting me know.

Just to throw my two cents in here: anything related to the Cinerama Dome and/or Arclight Cinemas, past or present, is fair game. I love hearing about its past as well as its present and future. As someone who enjoys the Dome (and will be attending two shows in the Dome this month), I love hearing about what’s going on. Thanks Rizzo and everyone for keeping these theaters alive through your hard work, your wallets, and your memories.

Rizzo, no one was asking you to stay away or not talk about the Dome – in fact, they should do a separate thing for the multiplex part of the Arclight. But if you scroll up you’ll see a lot of stuff that isn’t pertinent and it’s not just this theater, but a lot of them. There’s nothing wrong with a messageboard, but I don’t think Cinema Treasures created this site to act as a typical messageboard. No one is a “hater.” But a lot of us are fans of Golden Age cinemas and have no interest whatsoever about what is showing where in digital projection.