Backlots Posted by Lara on February 21, 2024

A flurry of excited emails arrived in my inbox yesterday, announcing that for the first time since 2019, the Egyptian Theatre will screen movies for the TCM Classic Film Festival. This is welcome news for classic film fans, who have worried about the fate of the theatre since Netflix acquired...   read more

Classic Movie Man Posted by Stephen Reginald on February 21, 2024

The Egyptian Theatre back as a TCM Film Festival venue The legendary Egyptian Theatre, which opened its doors in 1922, is back as a major venue for the TCM Film Festival. Recently renovated by Netflix, the theatre is able to show 35mm, 70mm, digital formats, and nitrate prints. The TCM...   read more

Backlots Posted by Lara on February 21, 2024

A flurry of excited emails arrived in my inbox yesterday, announcing that for the first time since 2019, the Egyptian Theatre will screen movies for the TCM Classic Film Festival. This is welcome news for classic film fans, who have worried about the fate of the theatre since Netflix acquired...   read more

Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on April 16, 2019

I've never seen a photo of Carole Lombard at the fabled Egyptian Theater on Hollywood Boulevard, but we do have this image of one of her films playing there, "True Confession" in late 1937. Perhaps she was at its premiere. But since the Sid Grauman-built venue opened in 1922, it's...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on January 31, 2019

"I feel the fever of Thebes in my blood, and I know that I was born to live in the sunset of the world and that nothing matters, nothing, but what I see in your eyes." Sinuhe, a poor orphan in Egypt during the eighteenth-dynasty, rises to fame as a...   read more

Classic Movies Posted by KC on May 25, 2017

Last night at the SIFF Egyptian Theater, I was presented with a dizzying mix of glamour, glitter, bare buns and sobering reality.The 43rd Seattle International Film Festival presented a screening of Cabaret (1972) with a real cabaret before it, just like those live shows they used to have before mov   read more

Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on January 25, 2017

At the close of 1937, Carole Lombard's final film for Paramount, "True Confession," played Sid Grauman's famed Egyptian Theater on Hollywood Boulevard. The venue looks considerably different nearly eight decades later, restored to much of its 1920s luster......but tomorrow evening, Lombard returns t   read more

Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on January 25, 2017

At the close of 1937, Carole Lombard's final film for Paramount, "True Confession," played Sid Grauman's famed Egyptian Theater on Hollywood Boulevard. The venue looks considerably different nearly eight decades later, restored to much of its 1920s luster......but tomorrow evening, Lombard returns t   read more

The Vintage Cameo Posted by Emily on January 29, 2014

American Cinematheque’s Retroformat began its series of early D.W. Griffith works at the Egyptian Theatre this past weekend with a handful of the films he produced for Biograph Films. This series will continue over the next few months and ultimately showcase more than 100 of Griffith’s f   read more

The Vintage Cameo Posted by Emily on June 9, 2013

Not, strictly speaking, a vintage film, but instead a short recap of an event at a local repertory theater: Recent Spanish Cinema’s vino and queso festivity in the courtyard of the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. Packed with colorful and stylish people, the courtyard party offered all manner of   read more