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Every time that I’ve seen My Fair Lady in a theater, I’ve been tempted to sing along, I like the songs so much. I finally got to let loose at a Sing-A-Long showing of this Oscar-winning 1964 musical on February 28, 2010 at the Michigan Theater.
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Before the screening of the documentary Mine at the Detroit Film Theatre on Feb. 6, 2010, the film’s producer, Erin Essenmacher, said that she didn’t want to say much because she wanted the movie to speak for itself.
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When I first heard that the Detroit Film Theatre would open its Winter 2010 season with a 4 1/2-hour movie, I had mixed feelings about committing so much time to one film. But when the 271 minutes of Red Cliff – The Complete Director’s Cut ended on January 17, 2010, I was glad I’d come down to the DFT for this dramatic and moving film from China.
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This web site’s co-sponsorship of the movie Christmas in Connecticut (1945) at the Michigan Theater on November 29, 2009 was the climax of a week of quality moviegoing at the Michigan that helped justify my investment in the theater.
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Before the showing of my most favorite Redford Theatre movie on Nov. 6, 2009—the 1964 musical My Fair Lady—I treated myself to the 1956 soundtrack from the stage show that starred Rex Harrison and a young (21-year-old) Julie Andrews. The music of the film is so strongly ingrained in my senses that it’s easy to forget that the stage recording is the version of the musical that people came to know and love for almost a decade before the story hit the big screen.
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In some ways, the Detroit Film Theatre’s film presentation of the opera La bohème on Oct. 24, 2009 reminded me of one of those optical illusion pictures where your eyes keep switching between views of one image or another.
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Film and video have become standard ways of capturing many artistic experiences, because of how they combine sight, sound, and motion. The Detroit Film Theatre, Michigan Theater, and Redford Theatre have all taken advantage of this in their events.
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As the Saturday night showing of The Great Dictator at the Redford Theatre on Sept. 26, 2009 wound down, I thought back over the fun of sponsoring this movie under the name of this web site. Usually I’m just a visitor, enjoying one show, along with some organ music and some tasty, inexpensive snack food. But this weekend, I was much more involved, and got to see the hard work and magic of the Redford unfold over three showings.
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As the 2009 calendar turned the gentle corner from the warm days of summer to the crisp evenings of fall, the Detroit Movie Palaces rolled out their autumn offerings on the weekend of September 11-13.
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The vivid impressions of the big movie screen can magnify the impact of many things, including landscapes where the stirring emotions of human drama are played out. That was particularly true in recent Detroit Movie Palace showings of two famous outdoor adventures: The Searchers at the Michigan Theater on August 4, 2009, and Lawrence of Arabia at the Redford Theatre on August 9. 2009.