Loews in Jersey City, NJ - Orson "festival"

[purplepines]

Hello indeed:

Small 2 cents, just to say the 1920's Loews theatre in Jersey City, quite a Versailles-looking place run by volunteers, showed Citizen Kane, Lady From Shanghai, Magnificent Ambersons, and Touch of Evil this weekend. The Touch of Evil print was of the Murch reconstruction, and apparently it was the first time that print was let off the lot since the 1998 restoration (thus, a 10th anniversary event). Very smooth experience...

The theater was so cavernous that the reverb really became a character of its own, or at least a very noticeable factor. Look them up next month if you like Bette Davis, and in May if you like the Final Cut of Blade Runner.

It is available for birthday parties and bar mitzvahs....

[Alan Brody]

How was the turnout?

[purplepines]

I'd say 50 people for the first three, and then 100+ for Touch of Evil at 8:45.

[Alan Brody]

Not too good for the first three, not too bad for Touch of Evil. I guess people will mainly turn out for new stuff. Or relatively new.