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Post by sgev1977 on Apr 15, 2020 22:09:04 GMT
I think we have at least one drive-in theatre here somewhere! I have heard about it. Mostly people saying they are surprised that it still exist! I have never been in one of them! I doubt it's open, tho.!
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Post by mllemass on Apr 16, 2020 0:48:17 GMT
I was at a drive-in theatre once, years ago. It was out in the middle of nowhere, outside of the city in the countryside. My sister owned a Saturn, and the company used to hold these events for the people who bought their cars. We only attended one event - at the drive-in theatre. They even gave us vouchers for popcorn and drinks, but I ended up spending the entire time there in line to get our free snacks. I didn’t see any of the movie and I don’t even remember what was playing. What I remember vividly is that we had quickly read through the owners manual to find out how to turn off the car’s lights while the radio was on to hear the movie!
I used to work in a rural area, and the nearest movie theatre to them was a long drive away in the big city. But they had a drive-in that showed movies nearly all year. They only closed for winter.
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Post by queenzod on Apr 16, 2020 1:16:01 GMT
When I first moved to where I live, 35 years ago, there was a drive in just a stone’s throw north of me. It was so funny in the summer hearing the music surge at 11:00 every night, and if I really paid attention, I could hear the whole movie. It stayed in business for a long time but about 20 years ago it was sold and they developed it into cramped, trendy housing. I still miss it. Well, maybe what I miss is the lack of development in my area. There used to be lots of vacant lots, and weird little businesses, and dirt roads. Unfortunately, the rule around here now is if it can be developed, it will be.
Last time I went to a drive in was probably in the 60s. You had to hang the speaker on your window - there was no connecting to radio. That’s high tech, lol.
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Post by sgev1977 on Apr 16, 2020 1:26:41 GMT
It's amazing that they are doing some kind of come back! I wonder who used to visit them all these years! Nostalgic people, I guess!
It also shows how people are just desperate to go out and have some fun!
I born in 1977 so it was too late for me to live the boom of drive-in theaters! Actually, my first movie experiences were Disney films that were shown at a theater that used to project only very old kids films. The industry was in decadence in the 80s. There were a kind of Mexican genre films called "de ficheras" and that was the popular thing in the early 80s. They were sex comedies starred by cabaret starlets and male comedians so they weren't family entertainment AT ALL! Still, I loved going to the movies to see the old cartoons and later in early 90s, I just fell in love with more mature movies (mostly 70s classic American film that I watched on TV) and read a lot of books about art cinema that I borrowed at the library. I also bought some issues of a film magazine called Dicine (it doesn't exist anymore) and I remember there were a lot of essays about "the death of the cinema". Critics then were very worried about the VHS destroying the theatre experience. It, of course, didn't happened. Multiplexes arrived to the country and then everyone returned to the theatres.
So, I don't think streaming or this virus will destroy theatres. They would be affected but people just love to go to a place in which they can have the community experience of watching something in company of strangers! I mean people are going to drive-in theatres right now in some parts of the world!
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Post by roverpup on Apr 16, 2020 13:55:54 GMT
I'm old enough to have gone to drive-ins many times. Mostly during my childhood years with my parents because it was way cheaper (owing to the fact you paid a low set price per car regardless of how many people were in the car and you could bring the kids along - so no babysitting costs!). We always wore our PJs because by the time the double features had ended, we were usually asleep in the back seat and put right to bed when we got home.
But drive-ins were still around when Dan and I were first married. By then the movies shown were usually really, really outdated or low-grade movies but it was a fun night and very inexpensive!
But our drive-in was shut down decades ago. There is one about an hours drive from our city that shows B grade movies but I've never been to it. It's in a summer resort town but I think it's open all year round.
The first time I saw "Gone With the Wind" was at the drive-in back in the early 60s. I also saw a lot of Peter Sellers movies and Rock Hudson/Doris Day films at the drive-in.
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Post by sgev1977 on May 17, 2020 17:52:39 GMT
Phoebe Nicholls is Mrs. Wain, (PDF) Link
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Post by sgev1977 on Jun 15, 2020 17:20:24 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Aug 10, 2020 22:56:10 GMT
There are a few cast additions on IMDb . Surely most of them in small parts but this one is very interesting! www.imdb.com/name/nm11648155/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t23The kid plays the child version of Louis Wain! Another actor is playing the father so it seems we will have a few flashbacks to his childhood.
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Post by sgev1977 on Sept 7, 2020 1:15:35 GMT
This is very random but a few days ago I saw on IMDb that the great Scott Foundas is the producer in charge of Louis Wain for Amazon Studios. He is/was one of my favorite "new" film critics but he left (for a second time) his career as critic a few years ago and now he works for Amazon. He obviously has great taste so I hope that's a good omen! I already followed him on Twitter so it would be nice to see him promoting the film in the near future!
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Post by sgev1977 on Dec 10, 2020 2:29:09 GMT
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