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The Alex Film Society screens vintage films in a spectacular
venue--Glendale's 1925-vintage Egyptian-inspired movie palace, the Alex
Theatre. And each semester we attend an AFS film program (if our schedules
mesh). This semester, we attended an AFS program built around the Beatles'
classic, A Hard Day's Night.
As always, the AFS supported the film with an informative newsletter, a lobby exhibit of relevant movie artifacts, a cartoon screened before the movie, and a special introduction to the theatre for the Mass Comm 101 group. In addition, there was a local disk jockey on the stage who interviewed an author and a sound engineer who had insights into the early days of Beatlemania. Here are a couple of our early arrivals. |
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Everything about the Alex is charmingly and authentically
retro. Here is the marquee, although work on the sidewalk made things
a little less glamorous.
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Here's what the theater looked like in 1959.
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Back to the neon mentioned above. At left is a shot of the
Alex's classic neon spire at night.
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One of the fun things to do at the Alex is to just
hang out and spend some time in the theater's glamorous forecourt.
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| Everyone in the group got a program that discussed
the film and other things that we would see. |
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