by despotmj | Jun 23, 2011 | News Slider
When the Franklin Theatre re-opened its doors on Friday, June 3, 3011, hundreds of people packed the downtown Franklin streets in order to celebrate the restoration of one of the greatest landmarks of community’s history. The original Franklin Theatre opened its doors in 1937, and at the time the price of admission was 10 cents for children and 25 cents for adults. Through the years the theatre was a tremendously popular staple of the downtown Franklin streets, as in several ways it set trends for an ever growing community. Some of these trends included becoming the first air-conditioned building, as well as housing the first public restrooms in 1938. This landmark set precedents in other areas of the community as well, as it did in 1940 when the theatre manager and city agreed to allow movies to be shown on Sundays, as long as they weren’t operating during church hours. Through the years the theatre gained more and more popularity, even after a name change to the Franklin Cinema, and in 2004, the Franklin Cinema hosted the world premiere of Peter Berg’s, Friday Night Lights, a popular film featuring local celebrity Tim McGraw. Again in 2005, the cinema held the world premiere of Elizabethtown. A movie packed with star power including Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst. So when the theatre closed its doors in 2007, a great hole was left in the community which had grown accustomed to seeing modern films in a very nostalgic setting. “This place means so much to so many people,” said Lindsay George, Community Relations Director of the Franklin Theatre. “Everyone has a story...
by Hunter Patterson | Sep 28, 2010 | News Slider
Curious about the movies showing this month on Lipscomb’s movie channel? Read after the jump to figure out which movies will be aired and their times. I’ll go ahead and say, there are some classics on the list! Lipscomb Movie Channel Schedule Start Time Film Name 10/1/2010 01:00:00 AM A CINDERELLA STORY 10/1/2010 04:00:00 AM AIRPLANE 10/1/2010 07:00:00 AM BEETLEJUICE 10/1/2010 10:00:00 AM FIELD OF DREAMS 10/1/2010 01:00:00 PM GHOSTBUSTERS 10/1/2010 04:00:00 PM GOLDENEYE 10/1/2010 07:00:00 PM IRON MAN 2 10/1/2010 10:00:00 PM LETTERS TO JULIET 10/2/2010 01:00:00 AM MEN IN BLACK (1997) 10/2/2010 04:00:00 AM OCEAN’S 11 (2001) 10/2/2010 07:00:00 AM OCEAN’S 12 10/2/2010 10:00:00 AM OCEAN’S THIRTEEN 10/2/2010 01:00:00 PM ROBIN HOOD (2010) 10/2/2010 04:00:00 PM STOMP THE YARD HOMECOMING 10/2/2010 07:00:00 PM THE BAD NEWS BEARS (2005) 10/2/2010 10:00:00 PM A CINDERELLA STORY 10/3/2010 01:00:00 AM AIRPLANE 10/3/2010 04:00:00 AM BEETLEJUICE 10/3/2010 07:00:00 AM FIELD OF DREAMS 10/3/2010 10:00:00 AM GHOSTBUSTERS 10/3/2010 01:00:00 PM GOLDENEYE 10/3/2010 04:00:00 PM IRON MAN 2 10/3/2010 07:00:00 PM LETTERS TO JULIET 10/3/2010 10:00:00 PM MEN IN BLACK (1997) 10/4/2010 01:00:00 AM OCEAN’S 11 (2001) 10/4/2010 04:00:00 AM OCEAN’S 12 10/4/2010 07:00:00 AM OCEAN’S THIRTEEN 10/4/2010 10:00:00 AM ROBIN HOOD (2010) 10/4/2010 01:00:00 PM STOMP THE YARD HOMECOMING 10/4/2010 04:00:00 PM THE BAD NEWS BEARS (2005) 10/4/2010 07:00:00 PM A CINDERELLA STORY 10/4/2010 10:00:00 PM AIRPLANE 10/5/2010 01:00:00 AM BEETLEJUICE 10/5/2010 04:00:00 AM FIELD OF DREAMS 10/5/2010 07:00:00 AM GHOSTBUSTERS 10/5/2010 10:00:00 AM GOLDENEYE 10/5/2010 01:00:00 PM IRON MAN 2 10/5/2010 04:00:00 PM LETTERS TO JULIET 10/5/2010 07:00:00 PM MEN IN BLACK (1997) 10/5/2010 10:00:00 PM OCEAN’S 11 (2001) 10/6/2010 01:00:00...
by Chris Shappley | Jul 29, 2010 | Opinion
The first half of 2010 hasn’t provided the public with a plethora of quality cinema. It has been a strong contrast to recent years in that there hasn’t been very much I found worth spending $10 of my hard-earned cash on. Toy Story 3 was the exception, but besides that little gem, I have been overwhelmed with disappointment over what has been offered at the Cineplex. You can typically count on the summer to unload several blockbusters that are at least a blast to see. But after Prince of Persia, Knight and Day and many others bombed, I began to lose hope that this summer would bring us anything worth remembering. Finally that changed. Christopher Nolan, director of some the best films over the last decade (Memento and The Dark Knight), changed this summer’s landscape in a singe weekend with Inception. With a brilliant marketing campaign that left much of the plot out of the trailers, TV spots and posters, Inception wowed America and the world on day one. It is no wonder almst every detail was left out of the ads. Two and half hours were barely enough to explain every detail, I can’t imagine trying to present a general idea into a few seconds. But I am going to try. Leonardo DiCaprio plays Dom Cobb, a man with the ability to enter someone’s subconscious as he sleeps and extract ideas for whomever happens to be paying him (this method is known as extraction). He has a team that consists of Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) Ariadne (Ellen Page), Eames (Tom Hardy), Yusuf (Dileep Rao) and Saito (Ken Watanabe). Saito,...
by Clay Smith | Apr 25, 2010 | News Slider
If any group of American children today was asked, “Can black and white people use the same bathrooms? Can they eat together at the same table in a restaurant?,” the answer would be a resounding, “of course.” Many children, teens, and young adults today will never be able to understand the hostile segregation that was prevalent in the South just 50 years ago. They owe this to the civil rights movement and to those who began to draw national attention to the movement in 1961: the Freedom Riders. The documentary Freedom Riders had its premiere Tennessee showing at Regal Cinema Green Hills as a part of the Nashville Film Festival on Wednesday, April 21. The film was followed by a question-and-answer session where actual Nashville Freedom Riders voiced their opinions about the movie and their experiences in the rides. The film was sponsored by Lipscomb’s School of Humanities, and was moderated by Norma Burgess, dean of the Lipscomb College of Arts and Sciences. Also in attendance were Ted Parks, associate Spanish teacher at Lipscomb, and Richard Goode, a professor of history at Lipscomb who teaches a class on the Civil Rights Movement. Freedom Riders takes an in-depth look at the journey of over 400 Americans who helped bring some of the first national attention to the physical abuses of protesters of segregation in the South. While teachers and history books give great detail in Dr. King’s involvement in the movement, the Freedom Riders get little attention. The concept of a Freedom Ride first arose from a group called the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in Washington, D.C. The group...
