Art-house theaters in your area?
3/2/2004
Wanted to revive this thread. It'd be nice to have a working directory of art house theaters (on the to-do list).
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Just curious what kind of access people have to art house theaters and in which cities.
NY:
Lincoln Plaza
Lincoln Center (Walter Reader)
MOMA
The Quad
Cinema Village
Anjelicka
Sunshine
Film Forum
The Screening Room
some others but they arent coming to mind....
The Tower In Salt Lake City, Utah
The Tower management just this month bought into a multi-plex (five threatres) in downtown Salt Lake City which had been competing with the one theater art house located in a residential area on the outskirts of downtown. Finally, The Tower and its sister theaters are on the map to bring many more independent movies to Salt Lake City, the Capitol of Utah, the state where the Sundance Film Festival is put on in Park City, Utah only 45 minutes from Salt Lake.
SLC Art House Costs Less and Get More
I don't know about other art house movie theaters, but the one is Salt Lake City charges five dollars per ticket and the popcorn and Italian Soda are cheaper than most other theaters. Is this normal? I mean what a deal, a great movie and food for cheap, why go anywhere else?
Art Film Houses--with Theatre organ
As I mentioned, in this small community on the Oregon coast the movie opportunities available to most people in larger cities just aren’t there. However, it is amazing what we do have in this community of about 15,000 people. The owners of the Bijou in Lincoln City bought a duel manual theatre organ and for the past three and a half years have run a series called “Silents at the Shore.” Dave Parks, a theatre organist who plays for the Elsinore Theatre in Salem (75 miles away), and several other guest organists have accompanied a standard repertoire of silent films, including “The General,” “Steamboat Bill,” “Wings,” “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,” and “Faust.” They have also included some more rare fare, such as “The Red Lily” (1924) with Romon Novarro and Wallace Beery, and “Forbidden Hours” (1928) with Novarro and Renée Adorée.
The silents series is currently on hold as the driving force behind it moved away. However, silents accompanied by theatre organ continue to screen monthly at the Elsinore in Salem.
Arthouse in Newcastle, England!
We have the home of cinema in Newcastle in the Tyneside Cinema. If it wasn't there I would have missed some of the best films I have ever seen.
There is so much more to cinema than multiplex fodder. I mean why do multiplexes show rubbish like Boat Trip for example when they could have been showing Donnie Darko?
Anyway the Tyneside Cinema rules and it is the centre of my cultural world, check it out at www.tynecine.org to see what there's on this month!
Korean videos? Real vs. pseudo independent?
Oscar Jubis wrote:
The secret is out: South Korea has produced as many memorable films over the last few years as the rest of Asia combined.
Can you recommend some? Are there some that are more subtle than “Attack the Gas Station” and “Shiri”?
I probably won’t have to buy them because Berkeley has two great video stores, Reel Video and Movie Image, the latter truly independent, the former pseudo-independent.
The SF Bay Area has a lot of Landmark cinemas, which have helped the cineplexes wipe out the small art houses. They show good movies, but aren’t truly independent or offbeat in their selections. This remains an excellent area for movies, if less first-run than LA and NYC.
Independent Art Theater Expands In Salt Lake City, Utah
The Tower Management that owns the The Tower theater in a small residential niche of Salt Lake City has bought a former Odeon Cineplex multi-plex theater in downtown Salt Lake City on a street aptly named Broadway (Third South). It has five movie screens, which dramatically expands the number of independent art films that can be shown! It was used recently earlier this month (January 2003) for showing some of the films from the Sundance Film Festival during the Festival.