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With its two auditoriums and daily screenings, the Michigan Theater sometimes resembles a more commercial movie theater, especially when it rolls out an intelligent entertainment like Elizabeth: The Golden Age, which opened today (October 12, 2007).
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As I scanned the descriptions of the 12 finalists in the Manhattan Short Film Festival, in which the Michigan Theater participated on Sept. 29, 2007, I thought about the power that my vote gave me over the careers of the 12 filmmakers. Then I realized that I wield the same power every time I decide on a movie to see.
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In the 20 years that I’ve regularly attended the Detroit Film Theatre, and the 10 years that I’ve visited the Michigan Theater and Redford Theatre, I’ve been lucky enough to enjoy many classic films, from silent movies like Buster Keaton’s The General (1927) to lively musicals like The Pirate (1948) to foreign language films like The Grand Illusion (1937).
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Without the Detroit Film Theatre and the Michigan Theater, I couldn’t have fully experienced the movies of many famous foreign language film directors, including Akira Kurosawa, François Truffaut, Satyajit Ray, and two directors who died on July 30, 2007—Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni.
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It’s interesting how some events live in the memory. Often, when I’m watching a big sports event, I’m anxious for the game to end, so that the real fun can start—the discussions and analyses and replays and debates about what happened.
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“Future historians of the art of film will probably pause at the name of John Wayne only because he appeared in some of John Ford’s best Westerns; but it is a name which gives pause to everyone interested in the industry…during the 23-year period 1949-1972 there was only one year (58) when he was not one of the USA’s 10 top draws..,” wrote David Shipman in The Great Movie Stars: The Golden Years (1989).
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If this year’s summer blockbusters leave you muttering, “They don’t make ‘em like they used to,” the Detroit Movie Palaces have the perfect alternative.
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While watching Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window the other night at the Penn Theatre in downtown Plymouth (May 17, 2007), I reflected on how I’d also seen that classic 1954 mystery at all three Detroit Movie Palaces.
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My general interest in the Detroit Film Theatre, Michigan Theater and Redford Theatre began ten years ago this month, when I saw the most remarkable film I have ever had the privilege of viewing.
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For the curious-minded, the Michigan Theater can be a treasure chest of intriguing information and fascinating images. Posters for upcoming films are scattered around the ticket booth and concession stand. First-time visitors often stare in wonder at the dramatic vaulted ceiling of the Grand Foyer.
