Comments from Cliff Carson

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Cliff Carson commented about Capri Theatre on Jan 5, 2010 at 8:44 pm

oh wow, can’t wait for those. You should post your flicks on You Tube. More people will see them.

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Cliff Carson commented about Phipps Plaza 1 & 2 and Penthouse Theatre on Jan 5, 2010 at 3:31 pm

I HATE what STAR WARS did to the industry and ALL the people that made that horrible enterprise successful.

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Cliff Carson commented about Capri Theatre on Jan 4, 2010 at 4:17 pm

I grew up in Embry Hills and went to Tucker High. Should have gone to Henderson, but that’s a long story. I made a movie about it long ago . . cheesy but kinda fun . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8obp2afgjrI

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Cliff Carson commented about Capri Theatre on Jan 3, 2010 at 1:18 pm

Hey Mike, my address is 114 N. Almont Drive #2 Beverly Hills, CA 90211. How should we work this out?

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Cliff Carson commented about Capri Theatre on Dec 26, 2009 at 5:10 pm

Thanks, but I have alot of memorabilia. Now if it had NORTHEAST EXPRESSWAY Drive In anywhere on it, that would be interesting. I have to get my self addressed stamp envelope out to you

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Cliff Carson commented about Capri Theatre on Dec 19, 2009 at 10:27 pm

My email is Is there any one specific thing you’re looking for?

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Cliff Carson commented about Capri Theatre on Dec 18, 2009 at 11:06 pm

Sounds great. I’ll do that. Thanks!

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Cliff Carson commented about Capri Theatre on Dec 16, 2009 at 10:48 pm

Can’t wait to see your pictures. Hurry up and find them. Also, if you liked OLIVER! you might like LOST HORIZON. Like OLIVER! the film is based on a famous novel and has a strong story. An adventure story. Problem was it was a remake of a Frank Capra film made in'37 and people were partial to the original. Also the first song in the film isn’t introduced until 45 minutes into the story. It asks the audience to change course after accepting it as a non musical. Like OLIVER!, it’s basically a drama with music and it’s the tale of SHANGRI-LA! Essentially an anti war musical fantasy. Try pulling that off? Film attempts to answer some basic questions about humanity. One can hardly fault it for not succeeding. The Bacharach/David music is what makes it so different and it has a great cast. Not a musical in the usual sense.

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Cliff Carson commented about Capri Theatre on Dec 16, 2009 at 6:38 pm

Have you seen LOST HORIZON? Time has been kind to this remake with music by Burt Bacharach. It’s fun, handsomely directed, expensively mounted and a little goofy in spots. View link

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Cliff Carson commented about Capri Theatre on Dec 13, 2009 at 12:30 am

I’m talking about the MOVIE theatre CAPRI in Buckhead

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Cliff Carson commented about Tara Theatre on Dec 6, 2009 at 3:23 pm

There MUST be some pictures somewhere of the NORTHEAST EXPRESSWAY DRIVE IN when it was standing. If I had only known I would have shot footage of it. Who knew at that time that Drive-Ins would no longer exist? First it was the Drive In theatre, now it’s single theaters.
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Cliff Carson commented about Tara Theatre on Dec 5, 2009 at 8:49 pm

No, we were talking about the NORTHEAST EXPRESSWAY DRIVE IN that sits where the spaghetti Junction is. The Drive In you’re talking about was right down the street, not far away. It was called the NORTH 85 DRIVE IN. A single screen drive in in the 60’s and 70’s and then split into two screens in the 70’s. I do have pictures of that Drive In, but I’m sure there are plenty on line. When I went back to Georgia and saw that it had been torn down I was very sad. The upshot is they built a theatre in it’s place instead of a Walmart of something like that, so I guess that was keeping in it’s integrity in a way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8obp2afgjrI

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Cliff Carson commented about Tara Theatre on Dec 2, 2009 at 11:47 pm

Can you send any of them to me?

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Cliff Carson commented about Tara Theatre on Dec 2, 2009 at 8:17 pm

Do you have pictures of the actual Drive In? I just have photos of the space that it once stood before they put in the Spaghetti Junction?

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Cliff Carson commented about Capri Theatre on Dec 2, 2009 at 7:08 pm

LOST HORIZON played at the Capri
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThNHOHjVhwQ

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Cliff Carson commented about Tara Theatre on Dec 2, 2009 at 6:58 pm

Oh yeah, I read that. Do you still live in Georgia? About 9 years ago I took a bunch of pictures of where the NORTHEAST EXPRESSWAY DRIVE IN use to stand. What Rosebud was to Citizen Kane, that Drive In was to me. The last bastion of innocence and hopeful youth.

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Cliff Carson commented about National Hills Theatre on Nov 28, 2009 at 11:05 pm

OLIVER! played at the LOEWS TARA for almost a year in it’s original roadshow run. A month after it closed it opened in several cities across and Atlanta and Georgia equipped to run 70mm. It was in it’s POPULAR PRICES, EXACTLY AS SHOWN IN IT’S ROADSHOW ENGAGEMENT run. I saw it at NORTH DEKALB MALL. OLIVER! was shown in 70mm at many of these theatres but without the intermission. I never felt OLIVER! needed an intermission. I believe RYAN’S DAUGHTER was the last roadshow picture that ran with an intermission.
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Cliff Carson commented about Tara Theatre on Nov 28, 2009 at 10:58 pm

Yeah, THE SAILOR WHO FELL WITH GRACE FROM THE SEA was the first film I ever saw that had masturbation in it. I don’t remember much about the film as far as the story is concerned. All I remember is Sarah Miles sitting in front of her vanity mirror masturbating all the time. You must have seen OLIVER! in it’s popular run format, exactly as shown in it’s roadshow version. It opened that way in several theaters equipped with 70mm projectors. NORTH DEKALB THEATRE was one. My friends and I went to see OLIVER! over and over. What atmosphere that movie had and in 70mm!! I remember vividly the feeling OLIVER! would give me as I left the theatre and exited the theater to a rain soaked Atlanta with the sun peering through the clouds and reflecting in the water on the streets. I was 9 years old and OLIVER! was the first film I saw over and over in the theatre. By 1970, I had seen it over 18 times.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWXjFHqc7gc

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Cliff Carson commented about Tara Theatre on Nov 28, 2009 at 2:08 am

I wouldn’t have thought any different of you if you had taken her to see THE STORY OF O. As much as I wanted to like CAMELOT, which I saw with my friends at the North Dekalb Theatre, I found it incredibly slow moving and to my young mind, I couldn’t understand it, so we walked out of that one. One of the few movies I ever walked out of as a kid. The other one being FIVE WEEKS IN A BALLOON. Couldn’t sit through that one either. I DID HOWEVER see THE VELVET VAMPIRE when I was 10 years old and a few years later, the low budget gay film BOTH WAYS. Both were TERRIBLY embarrassing for me. Couldn’t believe all that nudity.

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Cliff Carson commented about Tara Theatre on Nov 27, 2009 at 11:17 pm

Funny you should mention both those theaters. Believe it or not, but the WEIS CINEMA in Atlanta was, in it’s day, considered a kind of dirty movie theatre that catered to adult theme pictures. Even a great film like CABARET started out at the WEIS before it caught on with the main stream. Moreover films like THE VELVET VAMPIRE and gay independent films like BOTH WAYS played there as well. Any film with a gay theme played exclusively at the WEIS. It was a rather attractive corner like theatre with a small marquee. The CAPRI CINEMA was a big theatre with a balcony that ran big films like EARTHQUAKE, THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE, LOVE STORY, THE WILD ROVERS and LOST HORIZON.
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Cliff Carson commented about Phipps Plaza 1 & 2 and Penthouse Theatre on Nov 27, 2009 at 11:04 pm

I remember vividly seeing ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER there many times. It was a grand film and the first movie theatre that I ever encountered inside a mall. Another big one was THE OTHER SIDE OF MIDNIGHT.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nugOhUg4coI

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Cliff Carson commented about Tara Theatre on Nov 27, 2009 at 10:53 pm

I agree with him. Movies now are barely in the theatre for a few weeks. OLIVER! ran at the LOEWS TARA for almost A YEAR! Even films that were less received like Ross Hunter’s LOST HORIZON would run in a theatre for up to 6 months. It’s an era that is gone that I’m glad I was around to see.

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Cliff Carson commented about Tara Theatre on Nov 27, 2009 at 10:02 pm

It makes me so sad. The days of the single screen theaters are over and what a heartbreaking thing it is. I suppose we have VHS and DVD to blame for that. Single theatre marquees, like Drive In Movie theaters once lit up the landscape and made the world a friendlier place. When I was a kid I loved going downtown just to see the big movie marquees on the streets. The fonts of the film were blazoned on the marquee and the film really seemed like an event. There are NO theaters like that now. No big marquees downtown to light up the streets.
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Cliff Carson commented about Tara Theatre on Nov 27, 2009 at 11:08 am

You should have seen it when it was ONE BIG theatre, rather than chopped up. When the musical OLIVER! ran there, it was a real event.

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Cliff Carson commented about Capri Theatre on Sep 22, 2009 at 12:26 am

Yeah, you’re right. They changed the name of the CAPRI theatre to the ROXY. I lived in Atlanta from 1966 to 1978 and that theatre was always the CAPRI theatre.