Okay, I have to hit town for my Avatar encounter at Leows Lincoln Square. I’m told that the AMC IMAX on 42nd Street is fake IMAX, as are all the other IMAX theatres in town except for the AMC Lincoln Square. Repeating: this is the only Manhattan theatre showing the footage in genuine 3D IMAX. Simulated IMAX is like going to the Venetian in Las Vegas and saying afterwards, “Well, I’ve been to Venice. Love the people and the food. Love those gondolas!”
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I’ve never been able to give myself over to Sam Peckinpah’s Major Dundee, a 1965 Civil War–era western, and I’ve...
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