Cinerama Hollywood
6360 Sunset Boulevard,
Los Angeles,
CA
90028
6360 Sunset Boulevard,
Los Angeles,
CA
90028
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Hi Jim,
The Arclight does have projectionists; union projectionists. Most shows are digital cinema. The film shows are on a platter so no changeovers. Not much for them to do except make sure everything runs right.
The Egyptian sometimes runs film and they have a projectionist. They don’t have a platter so film is shown reel to reel. No automation. They have full time projectionists
AMC is the company that has managers do everything and have little or no technical support as do most chains. Most theaters have digital projectors only and are fully automated. So the ARCLIGHT in Hollywood is about as good as it gets.
If you are ever in Boston check out the Somerville Theatre. The main house has two 35/70 projectors they run a fair amount of film and have a projectionist.
After reading some of the newer comments, here’s my “2 cents”: In regards to “The Hateful Eight” / “Star Wars” first-run situation that occurred with the Cinerama Dome, the blame lies with Disney. After 2 or 3 weeks of the “Star Wars” film playing in the Dome (and doing its business), “The Hateful Eight” was supposed the Dome’s next attraction (it’s been said that one of the reasons why Quentin Tarantino shot the movie in the old Ultra Panavision 70 format was that “It’s the kind of movie that was made for a theatre like the Dome”.) Unfortunately, the folks who run Disney “pitched a bitch” & threatened Arclight / Pacific Theatres with a lawsuit (something to the effect of “If you move our Star Wars film out of the Dome & into one of your smaller cinemas, we’re gonna sue your asses off for breach of contract!”) Instead of siding with Tarantino, Arclight / Pacific “PUSSIES” its way out of the situation & sides with Disney. (Honestly, if I was the owner of the Dome, I would’ve told Disney to “F..K OFF AND TAKE YOUR STAR WARS MOVIE & SHOVE IT IT UP YOUR ASS! AND BY THE WAY, WE WILL NEVER PLAY ANOTHER DISNEY MOVIE AGAIN!!!” But that’s just me & my opinion.)
In regards to the recent re-release of “2001”, apparently Arclight is not running the film in its correct aspect ratio – Stanley Kubrick shot the film in Super Panavision 70, which has a smaller aspect ratio of 2.20:1. (Ultra Panavision 70 movies, like “The Hateful Eight”, have a wider aspect ratio of 2.75:1.)
Which brings me to the point: If Arcligtht / Pacific TRULY CARES about pleasing their customers & presentations, maybe they should start getting their sh.t together & STOP being another AMC-like movie-theatre business. Meaning: COOL IT with “the manager / assistant mgr.– operator thing” – it seems that the movie theatre biz has gone DOWNHILL for the past 40 / 50 / maybe 60 years. It’s my understanding that it all started with AMC & the multiplex idea – it was a good idea, at first. Then AMC (and companies like it) got greedy & LAZY, all in the name of “making profits”. In other words, BRING BACK THE PROJECTIONIST! (I’m not saying “bring back the union projectionist”. BUT what I am saying is – if you run a movie theatre, you have to treat the projection booth like its “the heart of the operation”. Meaning: NO MORE “BUTTON PUSHERS”! (A “button pusher” is a “manager / operator” or a “assistant manager / operator” who presses “the start button” on a projector & then goes downstairs to worry about, either the snack bar, or the box office, or both. “The button pusher” does the job of 3 people & makes a bit more than minimum wage – if he or she is lucky on that.) Anyway, if things DON’T CHANGE within this business, then sometime, in the near future, there WON’T BE any more movie theatres, like the Cinerama Dome – any more movie theatres, PERIOD! (Something tells me it’s gonna eventually happen. The question is: Sooner or later?)
I just checked Arclight’s website & they’ve just extended 2001 in the Cinerama Dome for yet another week! 4 or 5 shows daily. It must be doing good business. That’s awesome. At the moment, you have your pick of virtually any reserved seat in the Dome on the just-added week!
For three out of the past four weeks, the highest grossing movie in the US based on per-screen average has been “2001”. If only Stanley were still alive to see this.
June 2018 photo added credit Hector Acuna. Courtesy of the Vintage Los Angeles Facebook page. Cinerama Dome transformed into what it would have looked like in 1969, for a recent film production.
Yes, Howard. They opened the curtain on the MGM logo after the overture and closed them at the intermission. Then they opened them again after the entrance music and closed them at the end of the credits. It was very professionally done.
Not projecting at 2 corners is how the Washington DC Uptown’s curved screen is doing things with digital films but when in the year 2001 they showed a then new print of 70mm, it filled the screen! Robert, did the Dome open & close curtains for this presentation?
I just came from seeing it at the Dome. It had an overture, an intermission, and exit music. It looked great, except for their smiling screen. Why do the bottom corners of the screen curl up? Can’t they cut an aperture plate to fit the normal screen shape?
There is only one version in a new 70mm print, of 2001 that’s being shown worldwide. It is the original roadshow version, which itself was 20 minutes shorter, cut by Kubrick himself, than the world premiere of the film at the DC Uptown. Those 20 minutes have not since been seen by anybody though most or all was found in storage in a cave.
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did the Dome screen the original 2hr 40min. cut of 2001? that’s what is implied by Roger A.’s use of the term “original roadshow version”.
Never did the LSD thing but many have.
Did you take LSD while watching the movie? LOL….
Just saw 2001 in the Dome Original roadshow version it was great to see it on that screen
“This coming November will mark 55 years since it’s opening…it was ahead of its time and it predated Omnimax!!!
The screen wasn’t a dome like Omnimax, ‘Dome’ refers to the building’s shape.
This coming November will mark 55 years since it’s opening…it was ahead of its time and it predated Omnimax!!!
My error there are 15 showings of 2001 in 70mm five shows a day starting June 8
Wow they scheduled sixteen more shows 70mm in the Dome. Lots of empty seats. I just got my tickets.
The two scheduled shows of 2001 in the Dome sold out pretty fast. Why they didn’t schedule more shows in the Dome is the real question. There is one 35/70 projector with a platter in the Dome. There are other theaters at the Arclight equipped to run film.
Heads up for the new 2001: A Space Odyssey 70mm print, now playing for a week at Arclight Hollywood. Looking at the website, there are just two screenings in the Dome, both of which are nearly soldout (and only poor seat locations are left). But they’re also screening it in three of the other auditoriums (judging from the show starting times.)
So Arclight has set up four (at least) 70mm projectors for this 2001 event this week.
From their promo: “Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the seminal film, Warner Bros. Pictures is releasing an "unrestored” 70mm print of Kubrick’s groundbreaking science fiction epic in select theatres. A true photochemical film recreation, this print was struck from new printing elements made from the original camera negative. There are no digital tricks, remastered effects, or revisionist edits. This is the unrestored film – that recreates the cinematic event that audiences experienced fifty years ago."
2001 played in Detroit at a second theater converted to Cinerama—deeply curved screen and stereo. During intermission I had the chance to walk back to the projection booth that was installed for “straight on” projection. What caught my eye was the “Smilebox” masking on the projector portal glass, needed because of expanding bleed from edge to center caused by the screen curvature. Not good.
Have lenses now been developed that eliminate a need for masking of this sort?
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while I’m looking forward to Nolan’s supervised frame by frame re-mastering of 2001 for the 50th Anniversary since they’re releasing it in theaters shouldn’t it play in theaters with really big screens? in NYC its playing the main auditorium of the Village East which isn’t an especially large screen.
My ploy worked. The Barry Lyndon Dome photo is once again on display.
Roger: I was talking about the Hollywood location. I was in one of the other 14 auditoriums outside the Dome. Sorry I didn’t make that clear.
This page is about the Arclight in Hollywood not all the Arclights.
The photo that was and is no longer is not the Dome. It is not an Arclight in Los Angeles. The front two rows of seating were on a different curve than the rest of the seats, that makes it very distinct; along with the large size of the auditorium.
The photo that has the highest number of views is the one that gets displayed at the top of the page. I found the Barry Lyndon one and gave it a few more views, but I guess it wasn’t enough.
I’ve only been to one of the other Arclights besides the Cinerama Dome, but that photo does look like the theater I attended. I believe there are several different sized auditoriums. This must be the biggest one. It’s valid that the picture is there because the page is for Cinerama Dome AND Arclight, but I do miss the photo of Barry Lyndon playing at the Dome.