My very strange Bastille day....many years ago, one of the first things I did when I got a credit card was to spend it unwisely
Posted by
zeitgeist
Jul 14 '10, 20:52
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Francis Ford Coppola had just completed a restoration of the french movie about Napoleon, it was the biggest bomb of all time because it cost a freaking fortune and was stupidly innovative, a 3 screen tryptich that combined 3 projectors with an early version of wide screen, multi screen, and one of the first times they tried to hand color individual frames for sequences. it was a complete and total disasterous flop because it came out the same time as TALKING pictures, if you were a theater owner, what would you spend money on?
the movie just about dissappeared, they found a few reelsl here and there and pretty much spliced together about 80% of it or so.
His father, Carmine, scored a symphony for it and its re-premier was going to be at the san fran opera house with full orchestra.
however by the time I got there it was mostly sold out. so I asked off hand, do they have any box seats? why yes they did. if I bought the whole box. so I plunked down I think $300 for 8 tickets and got a box (the Fleishacker's box, this is like have steinbrenner's box) that was between a set of projectors.
this was a legendary party for my friends, we ordered champaign...
and sat there on bastille day watching a movie about the beginnings of the french revolution in the most bourgeois location in the west coast if not the western hemisphere.
yeah, off with my head
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