by Nathaniel R
Photograph © Caitlin Huston
This news is a day late (we got distracted by the foreign film long list reveal yesterday) but have you heard where Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman will be playing? With many of the big theater chains unwilling to play Netflix movies (on account of them streaming the same movies a week or three later), Netflix has gotten creative in a potentially awesome way. The Irishman will play at the Belasco Theatre on Broadway for one month, priced at $15 a ticket...
That’s cheaper than most movie theaters these days in NYC and "cheap" is the least likely word you'll ever hear in relation to Broadway theaters so... wow! What's more if you've never been to the Belasco before, you get to to see the interior of one of Broadway’s most gorgeous palaces (I always have to snap pics when I'm there). The Belasco has never shown a movie before.
Though we hate that Netflix has been systemically dismantling the American habit of moviegoing (our favourite passtime) we applaud them for finding a way to make this particular limited theatrical run an event. And we also applaud the Oscars for having the theatrical rule in the first place or you know they'd never do this. I am now officially excited to see The Irishman. That's something that wasn't the case before, even after Jason's beautiful review.