What's New
30 Mar 97
- Movietimes - heavily updated the events and Revival & Repertory listings.
- 24fps - updated watch this space.
- Movietimes - updated the events and Revival & Repertory listings.
- 24fps - updated watch this space, but just barely. Look for a better posting on Sunday maybe.
- 24fps - updated watch this space.
- Movietimes - updated the events and Revival & Repertory listings.
- Theaters - Finally did the Orange County Theaters list.
- 24fps - added watch this space - a more detailed recommended films section. Posted an article about the Star Wars Trilogy experience. Revamped the 24fps menu.
- Movietimes - added events and Revival & Repertory listings; deleted out of date items.
- Theater Lists - Deleted the Four Star (sniff) and moved the State in Pasadena to arthouse, as that's what it's up to these days. This was done to multiple lists - All Theaters, Art, Revival, and Best Theaters.
- Movietimes - deleted past events from events and Revival & Repertory listings; added this weekend's shows for the Plaza. More stuff will be up tomorrow perhaps; I got the new LACMA mailer today. Added a warning about screwy times at Santa Monica theaters for the next week to the first run page.
- Tomorrow (Thursday night, 2/27) is the last night ever for the Four Star theater. Please try and drop by if you've never seen this theater before. Check the Revival & Repertory listings. (I can tell you right here, though, that it's "Vanishing Point" and "The Great Escape".)
- Updated the Revival & Repertory and events listings.
- Added two screenings at the UA Westwood to the events listings.
- Put an article in 24fps: Recommended Films.
- Updated the events and Revival & Repertory listings, and the directory file and site map.
- Major revamping of outside links list and the first run movietimes page.
- Minor updates to events and Revival & Repertory listings, and the directory file.
- Silly design thing: this file is now in columns (as though anyone cared) and if you go to www.wafflelight.com/movieville, it'll now pull you to the directory in a few seconds. Whoopie, as every advertised link here has the /movieville.html on the end.
- Minor updates to events and Revival & Repertory listings, and the directory and site map files.
- Silly design thing: played with the directory a little bit, and changed all of the link colors. They should now look different even in 16 colors. (By accident it used to require thousands of colors.)
- Added comments to the reviews for the State Pasadena and the Cinerama Dome theaters.
- Updated the Revival & Repertory listings - current shows at the State and Four Star theaters and Tales Cinemabookshop.
- Added URL for the Mann Plaza to its review (http://mann-plaza.facade.com/).
- Mentioned the tragic news at Silent Movie in suitable places. (More details: www.mdle.com/ClassicFilms/contnt2.htm).
- Fixed an error in the motion picture sound systems page of 24fps. (Dolby SR is only 4 channel, not 6.) My apologies.
- I finally wrote the projection technology and motion picture sound systems primers in the 24fps section. Let me know what you think.
- Redesigned the Directory page. You like?
- Added 30-something theaters to the main Theater List and the suitable places on the First Run, Art and Revival pages. I think the total listed now is 107 locations.
- Regrouped the theaters sorted by cities to make the order better match reality.
- Made changes, mostly minor, to most of the Info Desk files.
- Made edits and coding changes, mostly very minor, to a number of pages.
- Found out what the pages look like in the less-forgiving IE; made some coding fixes to clean things up.
- Added to events the LACMA URL for a list of the shorts this weekend.
- Updated the Revival & Repertory listings - current shows at the State and Four Star theaters and Tales Cinemabookshop.
- Added a voice number to the review for the State in Pasadena; it'll end up on the rest of the charts eventually.
- Updated the events listings.
- Film Notes changed to Movies and got its own directory and header. It's still not all that developed, but now it's got the space I want it to have. All menus were updated to reflect the change.
- Made various coding fixes and whatnot.
- Updated the Revival & Repertory listings.
- Updated the events listings.
History /
What's Changed
28 Mar 97I've got a bit of a cold so I wasn't able to get as many details listed as I'd like, or do a real update of the Watch This Space page -- hopefully over the weekend, not that anyone reads it.
Some links have changed internally as I reorganized the directory tree a bit; if you had links down deep they may have gotten screwed up but probably not.
16 Mar 97
Made some design changes to the directory and the header graphics. They're now split for specialization. Whoopie.
Revamped the Info Desk section layout a bit, and changed all links to visit those files. I removed the second copies of the info files that were in each section; it was just too confusing to edit.
I removed the second-level menus from 24fps as it didn't suit the material or what I plan to do with the space.
Minor edits to a few files, mostly insignificant corrections.
Split the 1996 items off this list into another file.
10 Mar 97
Theaters not currently running revival programs or film events were removed from those two lists. It appears the Canyon Theater in San Dimas has gone Art House as well, bringing the total screens lost in one way or another during 1997 to four - Silent Movie (which hopefully will be back) and the Four Star are closed; the State in Pasadena has also switched to art films.
For February, Movieville got 2,150 hits, bring the total to 9,795 reported hits. With 711 so far in March, that's 10506. Wow! I passed a cool milestone and didn't even know it. That doesn't include images or files pulled from caches, so it's in some ways even more - 10,506 reported loaded pages - thanks LA!
21 Feb 97
Sometime in the last few days I updated the menus on 24fps to have the new buttons, and I made the last couple of corrections to the places where I said SR was a 6 channel system. Oops. It's four.
While I'm here in the history column, let me say I'm completely bummed by the Four Star closing next week, and I say everyone should go down and see The Great Escape this week not only because it's a great movie, but because you should see this theater before it rides off into the sunset. I'll probably write an article about this for 24fps, but now I've got to run off to see "Empire Strikes Back". Hmm... some revivals sure seem to work.
17 Feb 97
This is changed - I'll now try to put anything trivial over here. "Trivial" means design changes and whatnot that aren't things you really need to have listed in a "what's new" section because you won't miss a movie or an event if you don't hear about it.
Out of date events were deleted from the revival list.
To see if I could do it and to save a little screen real estate, the standard menu bar is now up in the graphic for everywhere but 24fps. I'll change it there eventually. Let me know if you think it completely sucks. I removed the "Contact Movieville" and "Add Theater Info" parts and made a whole new "Feedback" section and menu. I updated the site map and the directory, and made some nips and tucks in various places to code and menus. I should really be writing instead.
31 Jan 97
Growing more - 3047 loaded pages (not counting graphics), with a total of 7645 known hits to date. A crude directory-load counter gives an estimate of 665 visitors for the month. Opened the 24fps section with only a few files (and it seems to take me forever to write more) but slowly it's all getting there.