Here are some of the movies that were in theatrical distribution twenty-nine years ago today (December 26th, 1979) and quite possibly were playing at a theatre near you!ALL THAT JAZZ
AND JUSTICE FOR ALL
APOCALYPSE NOW
BABY SNAKES
BEING THERE
THE BLACK HOLE
THE BLACK STALLION
CALENDAR GIRLS / PINUP PLAYMATES / OVERNIGHT MODELS
CANDY STRIPERS
CHAPTER TWO
CUBA
DON GIOVANNI
EACH OTHER
THE ELECTRIC HORSEMAN
THE EUROPEANS
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (re-release)
GOING IN STYLE
THE JERK
KRAMER VS. KRAMER
LA CAGE AUX FOLLES
LAST HOUSE ON DEAD END STREET
MANHATTAN
THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN
THE MUPPET MOVIE
1941
NORMA RAE
QUADROPHENIA
ROBERT ET ROBERT
ROLLER BOOGIE
THE ROSE
SCAVENGER HUNT
SEDUCTION
THE SENSUOUS DETECTIVE
STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE
STARTING OVER
STAY AS YOU ARE
THE TATTOO CONNECTION
"10"
THE TREE OF WOODEN CLOGS
Looking through that list and remembering which movies I saw in 1979 makes me also realize all of those cinemas are now gone. I caught STAR TREK at its first Saturday matinee showing at the Lougheed Mall Cinemas, plunked in the very first row of its largest auditorium. APOCALYPSE NOW did not open until very early 1980 and my Dad took me to see it at the Lougheed. The Mall is still there, the cinemas gone since the end of the 1990s. THE BLACK HOLE was watched at the Paramount in New Westminster, one of the city's oldest cinemas. Still there, still displaying its wonderful marquee but now a "gentleman's club". THE MUPPET MOVIE and KRAMER VS KRAMER were viewed at my town cinema, twinned from the original large single screen circa 1978. It now exists as the parking lot of a Dairy Queen. The only uncertainty is the cinema where I saw 1941. My family was on vacation in Waikiki for the last week of 1979 and I went to a matinee. Can't remember the name of the theater but remember the long concourse to reach its entrance (up a flight of stairs, so not at street level), and an elaborately designed cavernous interior that included palm trees in the auditorium. It would be a shame if that was gone.
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