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The different showtimes of movies at the Redford Theatre help you experience that theater in different ways. A Sunday afternoon showing of the 1937 musical comedy Shall We Dance on Aug. 5, 2007 added another dimension to the happy memories of visitors to the Redford.
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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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The beautifully remodeled auditorium of the Detroit Film Theatre has played host this summer to flying saucers, dinosaurs, animated skeletons and Sinbad the Sailor.
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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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You really cared about these people. Over nearly three hours, the different stories of the 1946 film The Best Years of Our Lives flowed across the Redford Theatre screen, and when the movie ended, you felt privileged to be part of the experience.
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Music was in the air for Opening Day (June 9, 2007) of the Detroit Film Theatre’s inaugural Summer Festival of Film and Music. The rhythms and melodies of lively jazz came from the front lawn of the Scarab Club, as part of the annual Detroit Festival of the Arts.
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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.
