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| From Here to Eternity returns February 14 to the Michigan, where it first played September 24, 1953. |
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The acclaimed 2011 Iranian film A Separation screens at the DFT on February 24-26 and March 4. |
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Billy Wilder directs the Oscar-winning The Apartment at the Redford on February 17-18. Video courtesy of Turner Classic Movies |
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Looking Back
January 1957
Step back in time to see what area movie theaters were presenting in January 1957. Film titles are linked to the Internet Movie Database.
For more information about these theaters, see Cinema Treasures or Water Winter Wonderland.
Box
office attractions at the Redford included Love
Me Tender (Elvis Presley) and the controversial The
Bad Seed. A Jan. 12 Detroit Free Press ad for the Redford
read, "SPECIAL KIDDIE MATINEE SATURDAY, 'SHARKFIGHTERS'
and 'WAGONS WEST',
plus Extra Cartoons—Note: 'Bad Seed' Not Shown at Kiddie Matinee".
Long before IMAX movies, a Redford double bill promoted the VistaVision
and color of The
Mountain and the CinemaScope of Teenage
Rebel.
"Your
patronage and personal comment have demanded a 2nd week holdover,"
read a Jan. 19, 1957 Ann Arbor News ad for Giant,
which played at the Michigan Jan. 11-24. The new year at the Michigan
started with the last Jerry Lewis/Dean Martin movie, Hollywood
or Bust. Then came Doris Day in the dramatic Julie
(with the 1948 Tom and Jerry cartoon, Old
Rockin' Chair Tom). After Giant's two-week run, the screen
lit up with Alfred Hitchcock's "first real-life thriller!"—The
Wrong Man, with Henry Fonda and Vera Miles.
Years
before blockbuster movies opened everywhere, ads appeared in the Jan.
1957 Ann Arbor News for exclusive Detroit runs of Michael
Todd's Around the World in 80 Days at the United Artists Theatre
and The Ten
Commandments at the Madison Theatre. Anastasia
(Ingrid Bergman) opened at the State in Ann Arbor and the Fox in Detroit.
Detroit
area art film fans lined up at the World and Studio theaters to see the
highly publicized La
Strada (1954). "They know about juvenile delinquency in France,
too," wrote Detroit Free Press Movie Critic Helen Bower about
Fruits of Summer
(1955), at the Coronet and Surf. Films at the Krim included The
Loves and Death of a Scoundrel (1956, with George Sanders, Yvonne
DeCarlo and Zsa Zsa Gabor). In Ann Arbor, Orpheum movies included Frisky
(1954), with Gina Lollabrigida, and a film about childhood, Lovers
and Lollipops (1956).
