Monday, June 13, 2005
Everything Old is New
The New Beverly Cinema, on Beverly just West of La Brea (official site and showtimes – please patronize) just got new seats. Sort of.
For the film people who attend screenings here on a regular basis, this is akin to something like Deep Throat finally coming forward (more on that in another post). This is quite a bit of news.
The seats are not new, and not the entire auditorium got retrofitted. One entire side, the first row, and the last few rows have all hung on to the old seats. But most of the auditorium has these newer seats with the grey plastic backs – which are bright enough to lighten the place up quite a bit. When I walked in last night for a show, I was startled, and it took a bit of looking around to finally pick out what it was that was throwing me off.
Congratulations, New Beverly Cinema, although there is a part of me that longs for the New Beverly that I have known for 20 years, bad seats and all.
A side note: After seeing The Godfather at the Egyptian in the early evening, I was treated at the New Beverly to a trailer for The Godfather, Part II and for Woody Allen's Manhattan – the connection being not only the Godfather films, but that all three were starring Diane Keaton.
A very funny exchange in the Manhattan trailer:
Yale: You are so self-righteous, you know. I mean we're just people. We're just human beings, you know? You think you're God.
Isaac Davis: I... I gotta model myself after someone.
For the film people who attend screenings here on a regular basis, this is akin to something like Deep Throat finally coming forward (more on that in another post). This is quite a bit of news.
The seats are not new, and not the entire auditorium got retrofitted. One entire side, the first row, and the last few rows have all hung on to the old seats. But most of the auditorium has these newer seats with the grey plastic backs – which are bright enough to lighten the place up quite a bit. When I walked in last night for a show, I was startled, and it took a bit of looking around to finally pick out what it was that was throwing me off.
Congratulations, New Beverly Cinema, although there is a part of me that longs for the New Beverly that I have known for 20 years, bad seats and all.
A side note: After seeing The Godfather at the Egyptian in the early evening, I was treated at the New Beverly to a trailer for The Godfather, Part II and for Woody Allen's Manhattan – the connection being not only the Godfather films, but that all three were starring Diane Keaton.
A very funny exchange in the Manhattan trailer:
Yale: You are so self-righteous, you know. I mean we're just people. We're just human beings, you know? You think you're God.
Isaac Davis: I... I gotta model myself after someone.
posted by P, 6/13/2005 02:01:00 AM
2 Comments:
Did you mean to say got new "seats", not "sweats"?
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