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Claude S. Ayakawa
Film God

Posts: 2738
From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA
Registered: Aug 2002

posted 03-09-2011 03:26 PM

I was aware Georges Bizet's opera CARMEN was cxaptrured in Real D 3-D at Covent Garden in London. I just learned yesterday it had opened in U.S. Real D theatres on the Fifth of March and I thought I had missed it but the Dole Cannery 18 is showing it tomorrow night at 7:30 pm. I am t sure if this is a repeat performance but I am planning to be there to see it. I was introduced to CARMEN when I was a little boy in a rather strange way when I heard Bizet's music to the lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein 3rd in a Broadway adaption titled CARMEN JONES on a set of 78 RPM records a friend gave me. I later saw the the film starring Harry Belafonte and Dorothy Dandbridge and enjoyed it very much. I finally had the opportunity to see and hear the original opera in a live performance by the Hawaii Opera Theatre company at the Blaisdell Concert Centre in Honolulu and it became one of my favorite operas.

I heard the opera starring soprano Christine Rice and tenor, Byron Hymel is very good from the reviews I have read. The Dole Cannery is charging the regular amount for 3-D movies and not the higher fee for live Metropolitan Opera showings. My senior admission fee will be $11.00 and I hope CARMEN will not be shown in the auditorium that still has the first Real D system that was installed in the complex and opened with MONSTER HOUSE. I saw a Real D movie in that house a few months ago and the picture was extremely dark. All of Regal's other Real D houses have bright pictures especially house #12 at the Pearlhighland that has Sony 4K

-Claude

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Jonathan Goeldner
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: Washington, District of Columbia
Registered: Jun 2008

posted 03-10-2011 09:22 PM

Entertainment Weekly was really harsh to the production by giving it a letter grade: D

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Claude S. Ayakawa
Film God

Posts: 2738
From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA
Registered: Aug 2002

posted 03-13-2011 03:29 PM

I do not know what kind of experience Entertainment Weekly have when they review anything other than mainstream movies. but the very favorable reviews CARMEN RealD 3-D had received by most of the nation's major newspaper film critics made their negative opinion moot. I saw the movie yesterday afternoon and I fully agree with them because I thought the presentation was excellent! I will post a full review this afternoon

I was planning to see the movie last Thursday night at the Regal Dole Cannery 18 but when I had learned it will be playing twice weekly during the rest of the month of March, I decided to see a matinee because it was more convenient It was a good thing I did not see the movie the other evening because of the tsunami warning in Hawaii after the tragic earthquake in Japan.

-Claaude

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