More Fathom events…

Updated on August 6, 2012 By Ken Begg 4 Comments

Fathom is that company that offers one night (concert, movies, opera, theater, etc) programming digitally streamed that theaters can sign on for. Apparently their occasional partnership with (sob!!) TCM is going well, because they have more such stuff planned over the next couple of months. Check the Fathom site to see if any of these shows are playing at a theater near you.

Aug 16th: A Rifftrax presentation of Manos, the Hands of Fate.

Aug 22nd, TCM presents Singin’ in the Rain.

Sep 19th TCM presents The Birds.

Oct 24th TCM presents Frankenstein and The Bride of Frankenstein.

Nov 15th TCM presents To Kill a Mockingbird.

That monthly schedule is more than they were doing before. How I’d love it if they did weekly shows like this, maybe on Tuesdays, when admissions are typically light.

Again, I have to ask, though: When are they going to figure out how to do big sporting events. Either the money’s too low, now, or the rights are too tangled. Still, it’s a mystery to me why you can’t go see, say, the Super Bowl in a theater with a crowd.

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  • Streaming movies in a theater? That sounds terrible (quality-wise). The last film I saw theatrically (which it pains me to say was PIRANHA 3-D) was a digital presentation and it was awful (and that, presumably, was a professional, theater-intentional set-up). I’ve already decided, IF there’s another movie comes out that I risk seeing it on the big screen, it’ll be at the drive-in theater. They HAVE to use actual film prints.

  • Ken_Begg

    I don’t think Hollywood makes much of anything on film, anymore. Any theaters, inside or outside, that rely on film prints are in for tough sledding.

    Its early days for the digital projection business, but it’s leaping by bounds. I prefer it to nothing, and if DP makes it financially feasible to bring back revival houses, I’m all for it.

  • Well, I guess I’ll have to give you that one. It WOULD be nice to see more stuff like this get seen. Still and all, it’s rough times for everything cinematic. There was a time when going to the theater was special, because it would be a different experience from catching the same film at home when it eventually turned up on television. These days, the mainstream films don’t look any better than the TV product, so it’s hard to care about getting the theatrical experience anymore.

  • The Rev.

    Chelsea and I caught a presentation of the Rifftrax guys’ Christmas special a couple of years ago.  The quality was just fine for us.

    I wonder if we can swing that Manos presentation…