A 1913 city directory gives it as 34 Brow Street; a 1919 edition says 12 Brow Street. Well, at least I know it existed on Brow Street…a now truncated street. I wonder if anyone associated with this theatre was responsible for the emergence of the later Lyric in the Riverside neighborhood.
I caught a Fellini double bill here way back on July 18, 1986: La Strada with Ginger and Fred. I remember the dumpy seats that was the price you paid for first rate repertory programming.
When it was the Stage Door, I saw Lindsay Anderson’s O Lucky Man! here in June of 1973. When it was Regency III, I saw Ferris Bueller’s Day Off in July of 1986.
For a time in the 1970s this theatre was known as the Palace and was doing double-bill repertory programs. I re-saw Harold and Maude here when it had that name in Jabuary of 1973.
At the Coronet in March of 1969 I saw the uncut, 6-hour, original Russian version of Sergei Bondarchuk’s War and Peace…on two separate days for parts I and II, somewhat like the presentation of this year’s release of the Italian 6-hour The Best of Youth. War and Peace had previously been shown in Mahattan, I believe, in a 3-hour English-dubbed version.
I saw Paul Morrissey’s Flesh with Joe Dallesandro in 1969. I mean, I didn’t actually attend with Joe Dallesandro. He was in the movie. I noted in my log that the place was the “Andy Warhol Garrick.”
Agreed. The pronunctiation of Apu, incidentally, is something like “Aw-poo” in Bengali. I once went to a 16mm showing of Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali at R.I. College where it was listed as “Father Panchali.” You know him, the parish priest! I’m sure you know the title means “Song of the Road.” Long after the film was made, composer Ravi Shankar, who did the haunting score, became famous internationally and was even one of the performers at Woodstock in 1969.
Cosmo, Carl C, your comments could not possibly refer to this theatre, which closed in 1922. Where you should have posted them is on the Castro Theatre site. Click here to find it. The newer Castro Theatre that you want was built in 1922, a short distance away from the Castro Street Theatre that this site refers to.
Here is a 1945 photo (expand for better resolution) of the Hollywood Theatre. The marquee announces Fred MacMurray in Where Do We Go From Here? and the co-feature One Body Too Many. The Hollywood Theatre was built across from the town hall on Taunton Avenue. By the late 1920s movies were so popular that Saturday movies had outgrown the Town Hall Council Chamber where they were being shown in this part of town. In the Riverside neighborhood, a few miles away, the Lyric Theatre was already operating.
Well, I have been able to verify a previous Lyric Theatre on Brow Street, on the other side of town. You can read about it here.
A 1913 city directory gives it as 34 Brow Street; a 1919 edition says 12 Brow Street. Well, at least I know it existed on Brow Street…a now truncated street. I wonder if anyone associated with this theatre was responsible for the emergence of the later Lyric in the Riverside neighborhood.
I saw Bill Sherwood’s sole film, the gay-themed Parting Glances, here in February of 1986. He died of AIDS in 1990.
I think I visited this theatre just once, when it was a single-screener. On April 21, 1981 I saw Claude Berri’s One Wild Moment.
I caught a Fellini double bill here way back on July 18, 1986: La Strada with Ginger and Fred. I remember the dumpy seats that was the price you paid for first rate repertory programming.
When it was the Stage Door, I saw Lindsay Anderson’s O Lucky Man! here in June of 1973. When it was Regency III, I saw Ferris Bueller’s Day Off in July of 1986.
I caught Patrice Leconte’s disturbing Monsieur Hire here on August 1st, 1990.
I saw Louis Malle’s May Fools here on August 2, 1990.
I caught at least three films here in my visits to the city: Ted Kotcheff’s Joshua Then and Now in July, 1986; a revival of the 1937 Polish/Yiddish film by Michal Waszynski The Dybbuk on November 11, 1989, and the Hungarian Whooping Cough, directed by Péter Gárdos, on August 2, 1990. I remember the theatre as being functional, the screening rooms small, the programming incomparable. Every decent-sized city in America should have an Opera Plaza Cinema. So if the description calls it “an unsung art-house,” I am singing it.
I caught Robert Gardner’s Forest of Bliss here on July 21, 1986.
Saw Paper Moon here for the first time on June 24, 1973 and Aliens on July 18, 1986.
I caught two films here on June 22, 1973: Kid Blue and Scarecrow. One of them might have been a preview showing.
I too saw Above San Francisco here as a tourist in June of 1973.
On April 22, 1973 I saw two films at the Academy. At Academy 1, Claude Chabrol’s Just Before Nightfall; at Academy 3, Miklós Jancsó’s Red Psalm.
I saw Alan J. Pakula’s Love and Pain here in April of 1973.
And Hammersmith is Out as the Jerry Lewis Cinema, Cumberland, on January25, 1973.
For a time in the 1970s this theatre was known as the Palace and was doing double-bill repertory programs. I re-saw Harold and Maude here when it had that name in Jabuary of 1973.
I saw Bernardo Bertolucci’s Before the Revolution for the umteenth time here in June, 1973.
At the Coronet in March of 1969 I saw the uncut, 6-hour, original Russian version of Sergei Bondarchuk’s War and Peace…on two separate days for parts I and II, somewhat like the presentation of this year’s release of the Italian 6-hour The Best of Youth. War and Peace had previously been shown in Mahattan, I believe, in a 3-hour English-dubbed version.
I saw Paul Morrissey’s Flesh with Joe Dallesandro in 1969. I mean, I didn’t actually attend with Joe Dallesandro. He was in the movie. I noted in my log that the place was the “Andy Warhol Garrick.”
Yes…Stud Farm in July, 1969. Outrageous, unheard-of admission price of $5.
I never had the opportunity to go here much when I was in New York, but I remember a nice old wave/new wave double bill I caught in April of 1970: Marcel Carné’s Le Jour se lève * paired with François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows. In July of 1969 I had seen Juan Antonio Bardem’s Death of a Cyclist* at the Elgin. It seemed to be a nice place with good projection and it certainly had great programs.
Agreed. The pronunctiation of Apu, incidentally, is something like “Aw-poo” in Bengali. I once went to a 16mm showing of Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali at R.I. College where it was listed as “Father Panchali.” You know him, the parish priest! I’m sure you know the title means “Song of the Road.” Long after the film was made, composer Ravi Shankar, who did the haunting score, became famous internationally and was even one of the performers at Woodstock in 1969.
Cosmo, Carl C, your comments could not possibly refer to this theatre, which closed in 1922. Where you should have posted them is on the Castro Theatre site. Click here to find it. The newer Castro Theatre that you want was built in 1922, a short distance away from the Castro Street Theatre that this site refers to.
Here is a 1945 photo (expand for better resolution) of the Hollywood Theatre. The marquee announces Fred MacMurray in Where Do We Go From Here? and the co-feature One Body Too Many. The Hollywood Theatre was built across from the town hall on Taunton Avenue. By the late 1920s movies were so popular that Saturday movies had outgrown the Town Hall Council Chamber where they were being shown in this part of town. In the Riverside neighborhood, a few miles away, the Lyric Theatre was already operating.