From the opening attaction directed by Vittorio De Sica and Federico Fellini to yet another comic book movie, The Joker, how the culture has descended…
In NYC there are two traditional movie theaters showing porn, the Cinema Kings Highway in Brooklyn and the Fair in East Elmhurst, Queens. Of course there are dozens of adult video stores that present movies in various formats and seating plans…
Joe, tell you what: there is a TCM screening of Hello, Dolly! this Sunday. I will check it out with fresh eyes and report back here. Maybe others can do the same…
We have sad news to share, so we’ll just state it up front:
The Village Picture Shows Cinema, showing movies in Manchester Center since the 1960s, will project its last movie in the Manchester Shopping Center on Thursday, August 22. We hope that everyone will take the opportunity to come to the cinema, buy some popcorn, see a movie and experience this local part of cinema’s history.
We have booked an awesome program of movies to satisfy the largest cross section of tastes in our community! We have even made arrangements for the directors of two documentary films, sharing one screen in the final week, to come to Manchester for a Q&A reception (details to come soon). All of us at the Village Picture Shows, including our awesome staff members George Noyes, Charlie Citron, Sam Barrows, Patrick Ross, Natalia Sowulewski, Piotr Sowulewski, Colby Gunther and Michael DeRita hope to see you at the cinema over the next four weeks! See the schedule below for a complete program.
It has been our pleasure, and surely the pleasure of those who have come before us, to provide jobs to so many, for all these years and we wish to thank them all for their tireless efforts to serve our community.
Please know that all of us, Jeff Nyweide and Michael and Carolina Ellenbogen, are looking at all options in Manchester Center to continue to bring movies to the community in a facility that can provide a unique cinema experience that moviegoers expect today and allow us to offer more programming than the current two-screen configuration and concession options beyond popcorn, candy and soda.
While we have ideas, please don’t hesitate to make suggestions for us to consider during this development phase. We will be inviting you and the community to at least one meeting at the cinema this coming month, to learn about our plans and be able to share some of your own ideas and suggestions.
On behalf of all of us and those operators of the cinema that came before us, we wish to thank you all for your continued support of the cinema! It means a lot to us when we see the same faces over and over again. In 2013 the community helped save the cinema as it transitioned from film projection to digital projection through a successful Kickstarter campaign, and now, we will do our best to ensure movies will come back as soon as possible to silver screens in Manchester Center.
In the meantime, we encourage everyone with Gift Certificates to get them out of drawers and closets and make time to see some movies between now and Thursday, August 22! And as always, please enjoy your movie with popcorn! Popcorn keeps the lights on and the movies on screen… plus, it tastes great and we pop it with organic canola oil ☺
It is an appropriate time to say “Hakuna Matata”… we look forward to seeing you at the movies!
I just looked in the photo section and see that adult admission is $25.
Unbelievable! Who in the world would pay such a steep admission price when there are so many other options…?
The Life magazine article about the cuts is also included in the Photos section
Those Variety scribes sure knew how to write a socko review…
I just happen to have that issue lying around… wait, it was here a minute ago, let me check…
Hey Bloop, welcome back. Where the hell you been…?
Since this page and introduction are about the original Lyric Theatre, then Joe’s comments are perfectly apt.
Perhaps the introduction should stop at the end of the second paragraph, and omit the new Lyric’s information and history as a legitimate play house.
Photo from March 2019 added to photos
I have to wonder how many of 42nd Street’s denizens were interested in a musical about Gertrude Lawrence…! (And I wonder what the second feature was.)
I think he also operates the Grand Avenue Cinemas in Baldwin, (Long Island) NY but I couldn’t swear to it…
The Harris and the Selwyn were my two favorite houses on the block, although I did have a soft spot for the faded opulence of the New Amsterdam.
I’m grateful that two out of the three are up and running and in magnificent shape.
It was the sweetest sh!thouse in town…
I only attended the theater after it was a triplex, and that balcony had the steepest rake of any theater I have been in either before or since…
I’m still in shock that it’s gone
From the opening attaction directed by Vittorio De Sica and Federico Fellini to yet another comic book movie, The Joker, how the culture has descended…
Rob, I think you mean unlike Wikipedia, where anyone can edit an entry…
Here, only the webmaster or the originator of the post can remove it.
Peter Fonda, RIP
Bette’s last movie on her long-running Warner brothers contract…
another coincidence, the picture on the bill was the man who talked too much and 16 years later Day would star in the man who knew too much…
I think Wally meant we should be discussing Hello, Dolly on the Rivoli page…
In NYC there are two traditional movie theaters showing porn, the Cinema Kings Highway in Brooklyn and the Fair in East Elmhurst, Queens. Of course there are dozens of adult video stores that present movies in various formats and seating plans…
Joe, tell you what: there is a TCM screening of Hello, Dolly! this Sunday. I will check it out with fresh eyes and report back here. Maybe others can do the same…
But she wasn’t quite done with Tinseltown, since that no-good husband of hers had committed her to a multi-season run of a television series.
But when that commitment was fulfilled, THEN she was done with Tinseltown…
From the sublime to the ridiculous…
It might be the 1950s but since that’s a shot of northern Times Square, its not the Riviera theater pictured
And we have a winner…!
Closing August 22…!
This is the email they sent today:
IT’S CLOSING TIME *
THURSDAY, AUGUST 22 *
Dear Patrons and Moviegoers,
We have sad news to share, so we’ll just state it up front:
The Village Picture Shows Cinema, showing movies in Manchester Center since the 1960s, will project its last movie in the Manchester Shopping Center on Thursday, August 22. We hope that everyone will take the opportunity to come to the cinema, buy some popcorn, see a movie and experience this local part of cinema’s history.
We have booked an awesome program of movies to satisfy the largest cross section of tastes in our community! We have even made arrangements for the directors of two documentary films, sharing one screen in the final week, to come to Manchester for a Q&A reception (details to come soon). All of us at the Village Picture Shows, including our awesome staff members George Noyes, Charlie Citron, Sam Barrows, Patrick Ross, Natalia Sowulewski, Piotr Sowulewski, Colby Gunther and Michael DeRita hope to see you at the cinema over the next four weeks! See the schedule below for a complete program.
It has been our pleasure, and surely the pleasure of those who have come before us, to provide jobs to so many, for all these years and we wish to thank them all for their tireless efforts to serve our community.
Please know that all of us, Jeff Nyweide and Michael and Carolina Ellenbogen, are looking at all options in Manchester Center to continue to bring movies to the community in a facility that can provide a unique cinema experience that moviegoers expect today and allow us to offer more programming than the current two-screen configuration and concession options beyond popcorn, candy and soda.
While we have ideas, please don’t hesitate to make suggestions for us to consider during this development phase. We will be inviting you and the community to at least one meeting at the cinema this coming month, to learn about our plans and be able to share some of your own ideas and suggestions.
On behalf of all of us and those operators of the cinema that came before us, we wish to thank you all for your continued support of the cinema! It means a lot to us when we see the same faces over and over again. In 2013 the community helped save the cinema as it transitioned from film projection to digital projection through a successful Kickstarter campaign, and now, we will do our best to ensure movies will come back as soon as possible to silver screens in Manchester Center.
In the meantime, we encourage everyone with Gift Certificates to get them out of drawers and closets and make time to see some movies between now and Thursday, August 22! And as always, please enjoy your movie with popcorn! Popcorn keeps the lights on and the movies on screen… plus, it tastes great and we pop it with organic canola oil ☺
It is an appropriate time to say “Hakuna Matata”… we look forward to seeing you at the movies!
Thank you all,
Jeff Nyweide
Michael & Carolina Ellenbogen
Village Picture Shows Cinemas
Manchester Center, VT