I just had to write this night time post to let you know that you really missed out by not going to see the 5000 fingers of Dr. T. at the Kabinet on sunday. That movie rules. One of the best parts for me was the three little boys that were there (who totally hogged the couch I normally sit on, by the way) who were trying to be all modern and cynical about it but who totally got caught up in it by the end. It was so cute. Kabinet is skipping a week, but they will be back on June 25th with the Batman movie,the one from the TV show.
Monday, June 12, 2006
5000 fingers of dr. t.
I just had to write this night time post to let you know that you really missed out by not going to see the 5000 fingers of Dr. T. at the Kabinet on sunday. That movie rules. One of the best parts for me was the three little boys that were there (who totally hogged the couch I normally sit on, by the way) who were trying to be all modern and cynical about it but who totally got caught up in it by the end. It was so cute. Kabinet is skipping a week, but they will be back on June 25th with the Batman movie,the one from the TV show.
I really wanted to see this with Luc, but the 8pm showing was a little too late for the cranky 4 year old who sometimes rears his ugly head at the end of the weekend. I know 8pm works well for many people, but perhaps if other kid friendly films are shown in the future, an early time could be offered.
ReplyDeleteBut, we will try our best to make it to the Batman movie.
I was thinking during the movie that if I was a little kid, I'd be stoked to be up that late - so I was wondering if some of the parents there were thinking it was a little late. It was so great to see that movie again! I hadn't seen it since high school & I was amazed how many of those songs were still kicking around in the stoner, striped-shirt region of my brain.
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I'd like to confess that the real reason I wrote a night post was because I was trying to avoid the articles I have to write. Real writing deadlines are hard!
ReplyDeleteI love that movie - is anybody else old enough to remember the late, great Showcase Theater? It used to show it sometimes as part of its theme weeks, so it's great to hear about it making back to the big screen in Sacramento.
ReplyDeleteTen happy fingers dancing in a line, 10 happy fingers and they're mine all mine.
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The "big sheet" anyway!
ReplyDeleteI barely caught the Showcase. I saw Dance Craze there when I was pretty young & I couldn't believe the place existed - but it closed soon thereafter. And then Tower kinda absorbed it for a while right - like one screen was devoted to Showcase movies? Where exactly was the Showcase? I? J?
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The Showcase! Wow, I really miss that place. It was on L St. almost directly across from Macy's. I think it's a bank now? Anyway, I remember seeing "Fanny & Alexander," "The Jimi Hendrix Movie" and a couple other things there. Didn't they also used to show "Rocky Horror" at the Showcase, even before it played at Arden?
ReplyDeleteNow does anyone remember the Crossroads Theater on Freeport & Fruiridge?
Yes it was on L Street! I think it's a parking garage now? I remember the parking lot for it had a mural on the wall of a reclining nude that included the word Sacramento in it. Like one of her nipples was the O at the end of the word.
ReplyDeleteAnyways, I wish people would get as upset about the Showcase getting torn down as they do about the Alhambra, because the Showcase was the best movie theater in Sacramento during the 70s and 80s. I used to go there all the time as a kid with my family because they'd do theme/film festival weeks, old films (like Dr T or Hitchcock), and a lot of foreign films. It really sucks that nowadays you have to live in a large metropolitan area to have access to a theater like that and even then, there just aren't as many of them around anymore.
I saw practically every Godzilla movie ever made at the Crossroads, and I remember they had this deal where you'd get a McDonalds coupon with your movie ticket. So after the movie, there'd be an exodus to the McDonalds on Freeport Blvd. to cash in that coupon. But yow, the popcorn at the Crossroads was wicked. I don't know what was in that butter, but it gave us the worst case of pre-teen gas. But it was still good times at the Crossroads. I also saw Monty Python's "And Now For Something Completely Different," "Rambo," and some old-school Disney flicks there. R.I.P. Crossroads ...
ReplyDeleteOkay I just got the "big sheet" reference. Still it's nice to think of something that's somewhat close to the type of experience (especially for families like mine or Deann's) that you used to get at the Showcase. Going to the movies there is right up with the original dusty location for Beer's and the Music Circus in my favorite memories of growing up in Sacramento :).
ReplyDeleteSomewhere in the environs of this house of mine I have a stack of showbills from the Showcase in the early 1980s (because I truly never throw away anything), which go a long way in showing the kind of movies they'd play there, as in hundreds in a two-month period. I even saw some films there that have never made it to video or DVD and just now are starting to occasionally resurface on IFC or Sundance. Some Wednesday nights (I think) were always well-attended because they were booked in conjunction with a Sac State film class. I didn't first catch "Rocky Horror" there, but with the cast at Arden Fair, back when they were still running frequent midnights of "Quadrophenia" and "The Song Remains The Same" and "The Wall."
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