Wait a minute... I saw the Keatons at the single-screen Regency Theater on Bdwy & 67th, not the tiny, 6-screen Lincoln Plaza Cinema.
The theater was a block north of Tower Records Broadway, which is the key to my figuring out what year this was. I keep a list of every record I've bought since 1979 (on paper for many years, later a spreadsheet), including the date and store. So looking for a series of Tower purchases over a short period of time, I find that it must have been September 1984.
And not a bad purchase in the bunch!
9/5/1984 - Budd & Brian Eno, Harold - Pearl, The9/5/1984 - Budd, Harold - Abandoned Cities9/5/1984 - Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense9/12/1984 - Springfield, Dusty - Very Best of Dusty Springfield, The9/12/1984 - Various - Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him9/12/1984 - XTC - All You Pretty Girls/Washaway/Red Brick Dream9/20/1984 - Chiffons, The - Everything You Ever Wanted to Hear...But Couldn't Get by the Chiffons9/20/1984 - Jones, Rickie Lee - Magazine, The9/30/1984 - Shirelles, The - Shirelles, The9/30/1984 - Various - Phil Spector's Greatest Hits9/30/1984 - Various - Phil Spector's Christmas Album
(1984 was also the start of my '60s girl group obsession after watching the doc "Girl Groups: The Story of a Sound.")
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 04:23 (four years ago) link
Bad TimingNews From HomeThe ApartmentZabriskie PointSolarisThe Wrong ManNashvilleAlphavilleThe Last Picture ShowWorld on a Wire
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 05:08 (four years ago) link
xp that's my favorite XTC single
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 05:09 (four years ago) link
XP ^^Got half of those under me belt! Apartment, Zabriskie (w/all Pink Floyd at the end--RULED), Nashville, LPS, and WoW.
My list? I wouldn't know where to start. Houston is not the rep town it once was.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 15 October 2019 05:19 (four years ago) link
Godard's Goodbye to Language in 3d was such a mindfuck, would like to try it again.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 15 October 2019 06:35 (four years ago) link
genuine thrills at Hideous Lump’s self-researching
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Tuesday, 15 October 2019 08:01 (four years ago) link
Have caught screenings of Bad Timing, News From Home, and Nashville within the last year or so, and they're all worth it
― Josefa, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 13:42 (four years ago) link
Napoleon (Abel Gance) Barry Lyndon Days of Heaven (played near me recently but I missed it) Black Narcissusvarious Tarkovsky (think I've only seen Solaris in a theater)
Seeing a print of Lost Highway on an extremely wide screen totally transformed that movie for me.
― Chris L, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 14:04 (four years ago) link
seen stalker and mirror in theater; both spectacular experiences.
Having just gotten into Nuir Bilge Ceylan, I wanna see all his stuff on the big screen... particularly Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 15 October 2019 14:13 (four years ago) link
i used to keep ink-and-paper lists of my filmgoing; if i ever find '81 i'll transcribe it.
re the Regency Theater, the first time i ever went to NYC by myself in high school was to see Psycho there.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 15 October 2019 14:18 (four years ago) link
my first serious foray into regular marathon movie watching in theaters was when i first came to the city in 2000 and i set up residence at MoMA while I was couchsurfing. They were helpfully starting a "canon" series at the time and had two theaters open regularly for matinee and evening shows. Wish i had kept better notes...
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 15 October 2019 14:53 (four years ago) link
xpost - The Regency was a great theater--probably the largest screen for a revival house in NYC, from what I remember. Also, the average age of the audience members was about 80.
Weird memory: Eating lunch before one of the Keaton screenings was the first time I ate Pizza Combos.
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― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 03:37 (four years ago) link
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia is overwhelming on a big screen. I've seen it twice, once in London while I was on holiday, and once at a repertory screening in Copenhagen, which for some weird reason was on 35 mm, I'm fairly certain. It's one of the best digitally made films of all time, but it did look pretty incredible on celluloid. Apparently, Pedro Costa wants his films to be seen on celluloid as well, even though he shoots on digital. I think Colossal Youth might be the closest thing I have to a great white whale I want to see on the big screen. That and Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 08:56 (four years ago) link
The Regency was a great theater--probably the largest screen for a revival house in NYC, from what I remember. Also, the average age of the audience members was about 80.
And the interior temperature was about 55. It was wise to have a sweater during the summer.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 11:00 (four years ago) link