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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 ‘Redford Theatre’ Category
End of the Season
Sunday, May 1st, 2011Redford Ripples
Sunday, March 27th, 2011Detroit Movie Palaces Home Page
There’s probably no higher compliment for a Detroit Movie Palace than someone saying that it improves the quality of life in the area where it is located.
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.
Cartoon Fun
Saturday, November 20th, 2010Detroit Movie Palaces Home Page
On November 13, 2010, one of the liveliest Saturday afternoon crowds that I’ve ever seen at the Redford Theatre enjoyed what many hoped was the first annual Animation Rarities Festival at the Redford.
Another Fun Mess
Sunday, August 29th, 2010Detroit Movie Palaces Home Page
If you showed up early for the Redford Theatre’s Laurel and Hardy Film Festival on Friday, August 27, 2010, you might have found yourself dodging a flying creme pie. The theater enlisted the help of two local L&H groups to re-enact a famous scene from The Battle of the Century (1927).
From Small Screen to Big
Sunday, May 16th, 2010Detroit Movie Palaces Home Page
One of the biggest rewards of going to a historic movie theater is experiencing an old movie as it was originally meant to be shown—on a big screen.
That was the main thing that drew me to the Redford Theatre, which specializes in such movies. I’ve also enjoyed silver screen classics among the wide variety of offerings at the Detroit Film Theatre and the Michigan Theater.
Roman Around the Redford
Saturday, April 3rd, 2010Detroit Movie Palaces Home Page
At the Redford Theatre’s showing of the 1960 epic Spartacus on April 2, 2010, the Roman Empire spilled off of the screen into the lobbies, auditorium, and sidewalks of this westside Detroit movie palace.
On Your Marx
Saturday, March 13th, 2010Detroit Movie Palaces Home Page
Visitors to the Detroit Movie Palaces this movie season will have the chance to see the Marx Brothers in the two big phases of their film career.
At the Detroit Film Theatre on May 1, 2010, fans of this zany comedy team can enjoy their 1932 Paramount release, Horse Feathers. And on March 5, 2010, several hundred Redford Theatre moviegoers laughed it up at the Marx Brothers’ second feature for MGM, A Day at the Races (1937).
