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As we struggle through the transition from winter to spring to summer, the Detroit Movie Palaces wrapped up their current seasons, and gave us all something to look forward to when the weather is warmer.
Archive for the ‘Michigan Theater’ Category
End of the Season
Sunday, May 1st, 2011Monday at the Michigan
Monday, April 11th, 2011Detroit Movie Palaces Home Page
A Monday in April, as another Michigan spring inches its way teasingly towards the warmth of summer. On April 11, 2011, I thought I’d take the edge off the beginning of the workweek by taking in a double feature at the Michigan Theater, which is near where I work in Ann Arbor.
Career Moves
Saturday, March 19th, 2011Detroit Movie Palaces Home Page
Movie stars often look bigger than life, but like the rest of us, each day they wake up with the challenge to manage their career and survive the competitive rigors of our economy. Recent movies at the three Detroit Movie Palaces showed significant career moves by some very famous stars of the screen.
Classic Cinema 2010
Saturday, January 1st, 2011Detroit Movie Palaces Home Page
How is this for a solid and varied lineup of old movies for your local art/repertory film theater:
Each of these films was shown at more than one Detroit Movie Palace in 2010.
White Christmas
Sunday, December 19th, 2010Detroit Movie Palaces Home Page
During December, the AMC cable channel ran the 1954 holiday classic White Christmas over and over, allowing viewers to dip into their favorite scenes of the movie again and again. On December 17 and 18, 2010, I got to enjoy that film in the same way on the big screen of the Redford Theatre.
Two Visits to the Metropolis
Sunday, September 12th, 2010Detroit Movie Palaces Home Page
Introductions to silent films at the Detroit Movie Palaces often include the comment that silent movies weren’t really meant to be silent. That fact came through loud and clear in two recent showings of the restored 1927 Fritz Lang epic Metropolis at the Detroit Film Theatre and the Michigan Theater.
M. Hulot’s Holiday
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010Detroit Movie Palaces Home Page
It’s M. Hulot’s breezy, absurd world, and we’re all part of it, in the sweet-tempered anarchy of the 1953 French comedy, M. Hulot’s Holiday, which played at the Michigan Theater on July 18, 2010 as part of its Summer Classic Film Series.
Lasting Images
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010Detroit Movie Palaces Home Page
Some motion picture images are so powerful that they burn their way into our memories and imaginations, and become models for later movies.
There are the towering skyscrapers of the futuristic city of Metropolis (1927), which opened the Detroit Film Theatre’s summer film series on June 11, 2010. And many science fiction movies of the 1970s and 1980s owe a debt of gratitude to the graceful movement of the spacecraft models of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), which played at the Redford Theatre on June 25-26, 2010.
Faces of the World
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010Detroit Movie Palaces Home Page
The Historic Auditorium of the Michigan Theater has played host to some of the most unforgettable facial images in the history of film over the last few months, as part of its World Cinema Film Series. The difference between TV and theater screenings of movies might be most pronounced in the emotion and detail that is communicated in facial closeups.
My Fair Movie (Sing-A-Long Style)
Sunday, February 28th, 2010Detroit Movie Palaces Home Page
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.
