{"id":2322,"date":"2010-09-24T22:11:19","date_gmt":"2010-09-25T06:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/?p=2322"},"modified":"2012-06-07T16:00:08","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T00:00:08","slug":"movie_week_iii_day_6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/09\/24\/movie_week_iii_day_6.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Week III, Day 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/24\/movie_week_iii_day_6\/aero.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"aero\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2328\" \/><BR><BR><span style=\"background-color:#ccc; padding:6px;\">American Cinematheque at the Aero Theater<\/span> <I>Manhattan<\/I> Friday, 9\/24\/10, 7:30 pm<BR><\/p>\n<p><I>Price<\/I>: free with my badge. <I>Concessions:<\/I> None <I>Audience<\/I>:  150? 200? The theater was mostly full, not unusual at the Aero, but always pleasantly surprising to me. <I>Trailers\/advertising<\/I>: No trailers, but one of those hyperactive KCRW ads that the Cinematheque always shows at its two locations. <I>Projection<\/I>: 35mm changeover; not a great print, but not terrible, either.<\/p>\n<p>This was a bit of a change: a movie I&#8217;ve already seen in a theater I&#8217;ve been to many times, and it didn&#8217;t cost me twelve bucks. The Aero is the Cinematheque&#8217;s Westside arm, complementing the screenings that they do in Hollywood at <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/01\/01\/movie_week_day_5.html\">the Egyptian<\/A>. Their calendar tends to be a little more straightforward than the Egyptian&#8217;s, with lots of Hitchcock retrospectives and classic American films, as well as sneak previews of current films and in-person events. Despite the fact that the theater is unremarkable and uncomfortable, it&#8217;s always packed. I&#8217;ve seen a little of everything there &#8211; Norman Lloyd talking about his role in Hitchcock&#8217;s <I>Saboteur<\/I>, Susannah Grant screening <I>Catch and Release<\/I> for an Amherst alumni event, and Roger Donaldson with his film <I>The Bank Job<\/I>. It&#8217;s the heart of the Montana Ave. neighborhood, and it&#8217;s great to see a single-screen neighborhood theater still thriving.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen <I>Manhattan<\/I> two or three times, but I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever seen it in 35mm on a big screen.  The print wasn&#8217;t super, but it was passable, and Gordon Willis&#8217; cinematography was beautiful to behold.  The film never ceases to entertain, but this time around, I was much more aware of how much the way we live and interact has changed in the last 30 years. It doesn&#8217;t seem that long ago, but when you look at those banks of payphones, it seems like a different world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Cinematheque at the Aero Theater Manhattan Friday, 9\/24\/10, 7:30 pm Price: free with my badge. Concessions: None Audience: 150? 200? The theater was mostly full, not unusual at the Aero, but always pleasantly surprising to me. Trailers\/advertising: No trailers, but one of those hyperactive KCRW ads that the Cinematheque always shows at its two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-2322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-los_angeles","tag-movieweek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2322"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3155,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322\/revisions\/3155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}