Oscar Outdoor Screenings
 

For the locals if you want to enjoy some movies not at Hollywood Forever with food trucks in the mix

Link here

Tickets go on sale TODAY!

6/15 - Casablanca
6/16 - Snow White

6/22 - Raising Arizona
6/23 - Ferris Bueller's Day Off

6/29 - A Star Is Born (1937)
6/30 - The Goonies

Plus, tickets also go on sale for the Monday night 70MM Festival

A series pass is $20, which gets you into the Academy Theater for:

It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World
Sleeping Beauty
Grand Prix
The Sound of Music
2001: A Space Odyssey
Spartacus

I've always wanted to see MMMMW on a big screen!

Wish they'd screen the 1954 Star is Born. :(

The TCM festival did last year (2011) but probably hard to get an individual ticket for it.

The 1937 version is quite good and has recently been restored.

Got my tickets for the 70MM Festival - skipping the allergy outdoor series.

Where does the Academy have a big screen? Um, I don't find that one at their headquarters particularly impressive. If that's the case, while it may technically be 70mm film, it's not going to be anything like the 70mm experience I remember so fondly and crave repeating.

Plus, the website won't allow me to buy more than one pass. So I'd have to buy one and then try again to see if another is available for my date. Bah. I want to see only 3 of those movies, but there's no screening dates shown - so I can't see if the films I want to see are even showing on days I'm available. Big Fat No.

Well, I've seen "big screen" movies at the Egyptian, with their "new" 27'x53' screen. I think the Chinese is about 80 feet wide now.

The one at the Academy is 22'x54' - so it'll be closer to the Egyptian experience. While it won't be overwhelming, I know that the picture and sound will be top-notch. And for less than $4 a movie, it'll be fun (though I'll miss the popcorn).

JULY 9 - IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD (1963)

JULY 16 - SLEEPING BEAUTY (1959)

JULY 23 - GRAND PRIX (1966)

JULY 30 - THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965)

AUGUST 6 - 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968)

AUGUST 13 - SPARTACUS (1960)

I bought my ticket, and then logged right in again and bought one for Heather. Easy.

I've seen Mad Mad World and 2001 multiple times at the Cinerama Dome, so I'm afraid those would seem kinda meh to me by comparison. The only one I'm really interested in is the well-timed screening of Sleeping Beauty, mostly because it would so put me in the mood for Disneyland Birthday the following day. :D



But really, I was hedging - and the lame website was my deciding factor. Telling me I have to start all over again to buy a movie ticket for my companion is a good way to discourage me. Thanks, Academy.

When individual tickets go on sale, I'll buy two for Sleeping Beauty - but only if it lets me buy two. ;)