Ridgewood Theatre

JKane on March 19, 2007 at 10:33 am

I’ve seen ‘The Playgirls and the Bellboy,’ an awful German import to which FFC added equally awful new scenes, on VHS and you will not get a Coppola laughs out of it, believe me. Both that and his dreadful ‘nudie-cutie’ ‘Tonight for Sure’ are strictly Francis Ford Crapola. You should get a Coppola laughs from his much better ‘You’re a Big Boy Now,’ which, while some bits seem dated, is still pretty funny today.

mikemorano on March 19, 2007 at 4:14 am

Fella’s let us not forget the 1962 comedy flick ‘The Playgirls and the Bellboy’ directed by Francis Ford Coppola. I have not seen it available on DVD. Perhap’s someone has.

Ed Solero on March 17, 2007 at 3:40 pm

As beautiful as Morricone’s scores have been (“Once Upon a Time in the West” might be my favorite), I think Coppola did OK on the Godfather films with Nino Rota.

Hey B'klyn Jim… You should have ended that last post “…it got a Coppola laffs.”

Rimshot.

No?

OK.

Fuhgedaboudit.

BrooklynJim on March 12, 2007 at 9:58 am

Yeah, 25 Feb 07, Peter.

We watched the awards at a party held at the home of one of SoCal’s noted playrights. Everyone seemed stunned that Clint Eastwood was able to translate Morricone’s acceptance speech. Why? Not odd at all, considering how many spaghetti westerns he made way back when. He hadda order lunch sometime.

When folks asked me how accurate Clint’s translation was, I said that he was cleaning it up for Ennio. What Morricone actually said was: “P-tui on Coppola. He no hire me to score ‘The Godfather.’ He should-a sleep with the calamari!”

Scorcese knew. (Spielberg didn’t.) LOL. Anyway, it got a coupla laffs.

[No PC from dat wiseguy Jimmy from Brook-e-ling!]

BrooklynJim on March 9, 2007 at 1:35 pm

… and when movie composer Ennio Morricone (“The Good, the Bad & the Ugly” + 400 more, including all those linguine westerns, plus his perpetual Italian grammar and diction lessons for his American cumpare, old “No Accent” Clint E. hisself) boldly hoisted his Oscar statuette for Lifetime Achievement, he was heard to exclaim, “Ebay, domani!”

PKoch on March 9, 2007 at 10:43 am

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 …

mikemorano on March 9, 2007 at 6:53 am

haha you described the correct movie. The aliens have ping pong ball eye’s. The device used to close Peter Graves chest look similar to welding torch’s without a flame. Very silly by today’s standard. My next DVD order will include ‘The Day The Sky Exploded’ 1958. A spaghetti scifi flick. Has anyone seen this movie.

PKoch on March 9, 2007 at 6:18 am

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.

PKoch on March 6, 2007 at 5:06 am

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.

PKoch on March 6, 2007 at 4:41 am

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.

PKoch on March 6, 2007 at 4:22 am

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.”

PKoch on March 5, 2007 at 9:13 am

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 !