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The Egyptian Theatre Returns to the TCMFF
Backlots Posted by Lara on Feb 21, 2024
A flurry of excited emails arrived in my inbox yesterday, announcing that for the first time since 2019, the Egyptian Theatre will screen movies for the TCM Classic Film Festival. This is welcome news for classic film fans, who have worried about the fate of the theatre since Netflix acquired the p read more
The Egyptian Theatre back as a TCM Film Festival venue
Classic Movie Man Posted by Stephen Reginald on Feb 21, 2024
The Egyptian Theatre back as a TCM Film Festival venue
The legendary Egyptian Theatre, which opened its doors
in 1922, is back as a major venue for the TCM Film Festival. Recently renovated
by Netflix, the theatre is able to show 35mm, 70mm, digital formats, and
nitrate prints. The TCM website read more
Of Netflix and the Egyptian
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 16, 2019
I've never seen a photo of Carole Lombard at the fabled Egyptian Theater on Hollywood Boulevard, but we do have this image of one of her films playing there, "True Confession" in late 1937. Perhaps she was at its premiere. But since the Sid Grauman-built venue opened in 1922, it's highly likely Lomb read more
The Egyptian ( 1954 )
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on Jan 31, 2019
"I feel the fever of Thebes in my blood, and I know that I was born to live in the sunset of the world and that nothing matters, nothing, but what I see in your eyes."
Sinuhe, a poor orphan in Egypt during the eighteenth-dynasty, rises to fame as a great physician and, along with his friend Horemhe read more
43rd Seattle International Film Festival: Life Really is a Cabaret at the Egyptian Theater
Classic Movies Posted by KC on May 25, 2017
Last night at the SIFF Egyptian Theater, I was presented with a dizzying mix of glamour, glitter, bare buns and sobering reality.The 43rd Seattle International Film Festival presented a screening of Cabaret (1972) with a real cabaret before it, just like those live shows they used to have before mov read more
'To Be' at the Egyptian...and climb those '39 Steps'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jan 25, 2017
At the close of 1937, Carole Lombard's final film for Paramount, "True Confession," played Sid Grauman's famed Egyptian Theater on Hollywood Boulevard. The venue looks considerably different nearly eight decades later, restored to much of its 1920s luster......but tomorrow evening, Lombard returns t read more
'To Be' at the Egyptian...and climb those '39 Steps'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jan 25, 2017
At the close of 1937, Carole Lombard's final film for Paramount, "True Confession," played Sid Grauman's famed Egyptian Theater on Hollywood Boulevard. The venue looks considerably different nearly eight decades later, restored to much of its 1920s luster......but tomorrow evening, Lombard returns t read more
D.W. Griffith’s Biograph Films at the Egyptian
The Vintage Cameo Posted by Emily on Jan 29, 2014
American Cinematheque’s Retroformat began its series of early D.W. Griffith works at the Egyptian Theatre this past weekend with a handful of the films he produced for Biograph Films. This series will continue over the next few months and ultimately showcase more than 100 of Griffith’s f read more
Recent Spanish Cinema at the Egyptian
The Vintage Cameo Posted by Emily on Jun 9, 2013
Not, strictly speaking, a vintage film, but instead a short recap of an event at a local repertory theater: Recent Spanish Cinema’s vino and queso festivity in the courtyard of the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. Packed with colorful and stylish people, the courtyard party offered all manner of read more