News Date:
5/02/2004
Source: http://www.rialtopictures.com/godzilla.html
Rialto Pictures is preparing for
the imminent release of Godzilla
(1954) through out select theaters in the United States. May 7th,
Friday, marks the first release of the film, which will be screened
at the Castro theater
in San Fransico and Film Forum
in New York.
As previously mentioned, the film
will be the uncut Japanese version, not the 1956 Godzilla King
of the Monsters' version with Raymund Burr, and will clock
in at 98 minutes.
In order to commerate the impending
release, various newspapers from areas set to show the movie have
already started promoting the film. One example of this is the
San Fransico Chronicle (Sunday, May 3rd Edition) which
gave the film the front cover status on their Datebook section,
pictured to the right. Featured inside the Datebook section is
a nice four page article on the Big G by Allen Johnson and Patrick
Macias, author of Tokyo
Scope: The Japanese Cult Film Companion. The article focuses
mainly on the merits of the 1954 film, and also harps on the Americanization
of the 1956 version, but also contains a Godzilla "Time Line"
to point out important events, either inspiration for the films
or the films themselves, for the Godzilla series.
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There is a sharp focus on director
Ishiro Honda in the
Chronicle's article, including a salute to the dark theme
of Godzilla as opposed to just making another "monster on
the loose" potboiler, like the film's inspiration: The
Beast from 20,000 Fathoms. The article also applauds composer
Akira Ifukube for
his long running work in the series, in particular his score for
the original Godzilla
(1954). A quote from the composer, used in the article, appears
to the left. Special Effects director Eiji Tsuburaya and suitmation
actor Haruo Nakajima are also commended for their work on the
1954 classic.
The
film will be screened at 33 theaters in total, for the time being,
which are:
- May 7th-20th, 2004 (San Francisco, CA) Castro
[Finished]
- May 7th-20th, 2004 (New York, NY) Film
Forum [Finished]
- May 14th-20th, 2004 (Washington, DC) AFI
National Film Theater [Finished]
- May 14th-27th, 2004 (Los Angeles, CA) Nuart
[Finished]
- May 21st-27th, 2004 (Berkley, CA) Shattuck
[Finished]
- May 21st-June 3rd, 2004 (Silver Spring, MD) AFI
Silver [Finished]
- May 21st-June 3rd, 2004 (Philadelphia, PA) Ritz
Theaters [Finished]
- May 21st-June 3rd, 2004 (New York, NY) Cinema
Village [Finished]
- May 28th-June 3rd, 2004 (San Jose, CA) Camera
Cinemas [Finished]
- June 11th-17th, 2004 (Cambridge, MA) Brattle
[Finished]
- June 16th-18th, 2004 (Detroit, MI) Detroit
Film Theatre [Finished]
- June 18th-July 1st, 2004 (Minneapolis, MN) Oak
Street
- June 18th-July 1st, 2004 (Dallas, TX) Angelika
- June 25th-July 1st, 2004 (Portland, OR) Cinema
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- June 25th-July 1st, 2004 (San Diego, CA) Ken
- July 2nd-8th, 2004 (Seattle, WA) Varsity
- July 2nd-15th, 2004 (Chicago, IL) Music
Box
- July 16th-18th, 2004 (Detroit, MI) Detroit
Film Theatre
- July 16th-22nd, 2004 (Milwaukee, WI) Times
- July 23rd-29th, 2004 (Atlanta, GA) Midtown
Art
- July 23rd-29th, 2004 (Austin, TX) Dobie
- July 23rd-29th, 2004 (Indianapolis, IN) Key
- July 23rd-29th, 2004 (Madison, WI) Orpheum
- July 23rd-August 5th, 2004 (Pittsburgh, PA) Regent
Square
- July 28th-August 3rd, 2004 (Hartford, CT) Cinestudio
- July 30th-August 5th, 2004 (Columbus, IN) Key
- August 5th-9th, 2004 (Oklahoma City) Museum
of Art
- August 6th-12th, 2004 (Baltimore, MD) Charles
- August 6th-19th, 2004 (Nashville, TN) Belcourt
- August 13th-19th, 2004 (Lexington, KY) Kentucky
- August 13th-19th, 2004 (Saint Louis, MO) Tivoli
- August 27th-29th, 2004 (Cleveland, OH) Cinematheque
- August 27th-29th, 2004 (Paducah, KY) Maiden
Alley
Please see Rialto's site on the
film, found here http://www.rialtopictures.com/godzilla.html,
for more details.
-Anthony Romero
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