When I was a kid I used to go to the movies, double features in outdoor theaters, and my parents used to take us to see like, ‘Cat On a Hot Tin Roof’ or something like that, with Elizabeth Taylor.
The Beverly Cinema in L.A. screens old, artsy movies for half the price of regular theaters. It has an old-school vibe to it. It’s cheap, and the selection of movies is always interesting and different. Very romantic!
When I got out of school, I just started doing plays of the off-off-Broadway route, and for many years, that’s what I did, slowly doing work in tiny theaters, building relationships with people in the business. It’s not a showy story.
Let’s put it this way: art house theaters are vanishing. They have almost disappeared completely, and that means there’s a shift in what audiences want to see. And they have to be aware of that and be realistic. It’s as simple as that.
Think about trailers you see in theaters. If you’re seeing a Warner Bros film, the studio might have three of the five trailers. So having a hit helps you create the next hit.
Cinema will not go anywhere. We want to watch movies in theaters. Cinema and digital will coexist.
To me, being in the big time is not that big of a deal. I’ve been there; I know what it is. It’s exciting, but it’s also a lot of work and pressure. I love sort of flying under the radar where we can play theaters and sell CD’s on the Internet, and it’s really kind of a cool time.
My brother and I spent our childhood in movie theaters screaming. I decided early on that that was the epitome of entertainment. I’m always trying for that same level of adrenaline in my books.
Life is much more available in New York – there are a dozen movie theaters within walking distance. Living in California is easier, but you get sedentary.
I played in front of every conceivable audience you could face: an all-black audience, all-white, firemen’s fairs, policemen’s balls, in front of supermarkets, bar mitzvahs, weddings, drive-in theaters. I’d seen it all before I ever walked into a recording studio.
I suppose movie theaters are the churches of the modern age, where we gather reverently to worship the tinsel gods of Hollywood.
While more great films are being made every year, it is increasingly difficult to get indies into theaters or on TV.
You start in bars and then restaurants, then you want to get into comedy clubs where you feature, then you headline, and once you sell out clubs you’re into theaters. I’ve been able to get there, and it’s cool to do that.
‘Last House’ offended a lot of people. The results in the theaters, even in Boston, reminded me a bit of things from when I was studying Theater of the Absurd, and the rise and the appearance of Ionesco plays, and things like that.
I grew up near New York, and there were a lot of summer stock theaters in the area. I started an apprenticing with some of the theaters. Not really acting in them – I did everything else: everything but act.
I just hope that theaters remain. I think there’s something very wonderful about getting into a dark room with a bunch of people. There’s something cool about that. Brings us all together in one room where we can experience all those emotions.
When I get the chance, I’m at the theaters all the time, trying to check out the latest movies.
I am overwhelmed by the reaction to my songs. At Mitra, people went crazy dancing to Paglu’s songs. Naveena, which hardly ever screens a Bengali movie, is screening ‘Paglu.’ I got mobbed at the theaters and lost my watch and shades.
In some European theaters, it’s still not uncommon to have a late start and three LONG intermissions, because people actually eat and drink and converse during the intermissions.
I’m still a big believer in movie theaters, and going to see movies in public.
It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
I think it’s always super exciting to watch something before you can see it in theaters.
I’ll be going to the granddaddy of the Los Angeles theaters.
The Washington black community was able to succeed beyond his wildest dreams. I mean, we had our own newspapers, our own restaurants, our own theaters, our own small shops, our own clubs, our own Masonic lodges.
I am a big popcorn fanatic. I love popcorn. In fact one year for my birthday, my husband bought me one of those big popcorn machines like they have in movie theaters.
We don’t decide how a movie will be distributed until it’s finished. It might be on iTunes, it might be on 3,000 theaters, but we make that decision after the fact.
The mainstream is generally garbage. Look at the heavily subsidized theaters.
