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A year-by-year, film-by-film history of 70-millimeter wide gauge exhibition in New York City & Vicinity

 

 Compiled by Michael Coate and William Kallay

 


 

1988

 

 

February 12:

SHOOT TO KILL

Spherical (Super-35) Blow-Up / Six-Track Dolby Stereo

Touchstone/Silver Screen Partners III/Buena Vista

“It’s about staying alive.”

 

Manhattan: [Guild] Embassy 1

Manhattan: [Cineplex Odeon] Regency

 

 

 

 

May 20:

WILLOW

Anamorphic Blow-Up / Six-Track Dolby Stereo

Lucasfilm Ltd./Imagine/MGM-UA

“A world where heroes come in all sizes and adventure is the greatest magic of all.”

 

Hawthorne: [National Amusements] All Westchester Saw Mill Multiplex  (THX)

Levittown: [Loews] Nassau Six

Manhattan: [Guild] 50th Street

Manhattan: [Loews] 34th Street Showplace

Manhattan: [Loews] Paramount

Manhattan: [Loews] Tower East

Paramus: [Cineplex Odeon] Route 4 Tenplex

Secaucus: [Loews] Meadow Plaza Eightplex

Valley Stream: [National Amusements] Sunrise Multiplex

Yonkers: [GCC] Central Plaza

 

 

 

 

June 10:

THE PRESIDIO

Anamorphic Blow-Up / Six-Track Dolby Stereo

Paramount

 

Manhattan: [Loews] 34th Street Showplace

Manhattan: [Loews] 84th Street Six

Manhattan: [Guild] Embassy 2

Manhattan: [Loews] New York Twin

 

 

 

 

June 22:

WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT

Spherical Blow-Up / Six-Track Dolby Stereo

Amblin/Touchstone/Buena Vista

“It’s the story of a man, a woman, and a rabbit in a triangle of trouble.”

 

Manhattan: [Cineplex Odeon] Coronet

Manhattan: [City] Gramercy

Manhattan: [Cineplex Odeon] Ziegfeld

 

Includes World Premiere on June 21 at Radio City Music Hall

 

Additional 70mm Engagement

Manhattan: [Guild] Embassy 1  (Aug. 12)

 

 

 

 

July 15:

DIE HARD

Anamorphic Blow-Up / Six-Track Dolby Stereo

20th Century Fox

“40 Stories Of Sheer Adventure!”

 

Manhattan: [Cineplex Odeon] Baronet

Manhattan: [UA/B.S. Moss] Criterion Center

 

 

 

 

August 12:

TUCKER: THE MAN AND HIS DREAM

Anamorphic Blow-Up / Six-Track Dolby Stereo

Lucasfilm Ltd./Paramount

 

Manhattan: [Loews] 34th Street Showplace

Manhattan: [Loews] 84th Street Six

Manhattan: [Loews] New York Twin

 

 

 

 

August 19:

THE BIG BLUE  (“Le Grand Bleu”)

Anamorphic Blow-Up / Six-Track Dolby Stereo

Gaumont/Weintraub/Columbia

“Between what you know and what you wish, lies the secret of…The Big Blue”

 

Manhattan: [Cineplex Odeon] 23rd Street West Triplex

Manhattan: [Loews] 84th Street Six

 

 

 

 

September 2:

THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST

Spherical Blow-Up / Six-Track Dolby Stereo

Cineplex Odeon/Universal

“An extraordinary story based on the highly acclaimed novel by Nikos Kazantzakis.”

 

Manhattan: [Cineplex Odeon] Ziegfeld

 

Film originally released in 35mm on Aug. 12

 

 

 

 

September 23:

GORILLAS IN THE MIST: THE ADVENTURE OF DIAN FOSSEY

Spherical Blow-Up / Six-Track Dolby Stereo

Warner Bros./Universal

 

Manhattan: [Cineplex Odeon] Beekman

 

Includes World Premiere on Sep. 14

 

 

 

 

October 7:

ALIEN NATION

Spherical (Super-35) Blow-Up / Six-Track Dolby Stereo

20th Century Fox

“Prepare Yourself”

 

Manhattan: [UA/B.S. Moss] Criterion Center

 

 

 

 

November 23:

COCOON: THE RETURN

Spherical Blow-Up / Six-Track Dolby Stereo

20th Century Fox

“Journey to the most wonderful place in the universe… Home.”

 

Manhattan: [Cineplex Odeon] Bay

Manhattan: [Trans-Lux] Gotham

Manhattan: [Cineplex Odeon] Ziegfeld

 

 

 

 

December 21:

BEACHES

Spherical Blow-Up / Six-Track Dolby Stereo

Touchstone/Silver Screen Partners IV/Buena Vista

“Once in a lifetime you make a friendship that lasts forever.”

 

Manhattan: [City] Cinema I

Manhattan: [City] Gramercy

 

Additional 70mm Engagements

Manhattan: [Guild] 50th Street  (Jan. 27, 1989)

Manhattan: [Guild] Embassy 2  (Mar. 10, 1989)

Manhattan: [City] 57th Street Playhouse  (June 16, 1989)

 


 

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