Back to the Future at The Theatre at the Ace Hotel

This weekend I saw Back to the Future for the 7th or 8th time in the last few years. This screening was held at the United Artists Theatre at the Ace Hotel downtown as part of the LA Conservancy's Last Remaining Seats series.

Before the show began, they had a slideshow of all the places in LA they had worked, and were working, to preserve, like the Capitol Records building, the Century Plaza Hotel, Johnnie's Coffee Shop, as well as a lot of other buildings I didn't recognize. They want to not just save decrepit old buildings, but rather to preserve and revitalize historic places that make Los Angeles unique. Check out their website and see all the different places they are working to save, it's actually really interesting!



The Theatre at the Ace Hotel was once such place they saved. In 1927, Mary Pickford asked the architect to build a cathedral to movies, and it truly does look like a cathedral. It's so ornate and beautiful; my pictures really don't do it justice.

Before the movie, Leonard Maltin (noted film critic as well as the guy we shared a plane with back from New Mexico with last year) hosted a Q&A with Don Fullilove (Mayor Goldie Wilson - progress is his middle name!), Claudia Wells (the first Jennifer, who we've seen at at least 2 other Q&A sessions), and Lea Thompson (Lorraine, who we've seen once before at a BTTF Q&A).