Cinemart Cinemas
106-03 Metropolitan Avenue,
Forest Hills,
NY
11375
106-03 Metropolitan Avenue,
Forest Hills,
NY
11375
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After seeing 17824 cinema releases in my life (tons on TV),and 12 years living in Queens, I finally saw my first film at the Cinemart. It was a documentary called “Inside Job” and has 1 showing a day in their 92 seat theater. Theater didn’t seem that small, 11 rows of 4 on each side with 4 by themselves in the back. Never saw a theater with screens behind others. Usually screens are side by side,opposite one another or on top of one another. Here 1 and 2 are seperated by a hall which leads to 3, 4 & 5.
My memory of the Cinemart of the 70s and 80s is that it was a shabby dump. The movies that we saw there were on their last run, which fits the dollar format. “On a Clear Day” (the fifth time I saw it!) “Airplane,” and “Flashdance” are the ones I remember seeing there, though I know there were more. Nice to see it’s been reborn, and no reason why it shoudn’t be. Great neighborhood!
Warren, can you please re-post your scan from Sept 4th?
Great shot Warren, and welcome back.
This scan of a printed copy of the Queens Chronicle provides a more detailed image of the Inwood than the one at their website. The marquee looks original except for the side attraction panels, which probably have been changed from a black background with white lettering to the more modern reverse. The entrance doors and poster cases also look original. The Inwood’s current program was the sub-run “Caught” and a revival of “Penny Serenade”:
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Thanks Warren. Hope you as well as the Cinemart, which is doing very nicely.
Warren G. Harris sends this link to the Queens Chronicle with a great photo of the Inwood and a story on the history of the theater over the years.
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I just scanned some pics of the Columbia and did this one of the Cinemart Marquee from its twin days.
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Good for you, hardbop !
That’s some over-schedulling, dantop500 !
I made my first trek out here this past weekend to finally catch up with “Brideshead Revisited.” I didn’t find anything all that distinguished about the theatre, but glad I had a chance to check out another NYC movie theatre.
This theater is running 12 films this weekend on 5 screens; that’s some wild scheduling. The North Shore in Little Neck has 6 films on 1 screen this weekend.
very nice Warren….now if only you could find a photo of the Ridgewood Theater wherever you are finding all of these. They would be great for the people trying to preserve it in it’s final hours of hope.
I’m having trouble reaching the box office. How would someone travel to the Cinemart Cinemas by subway and bus from the 7 train, or any bus subway connection. Decided I had to see Speed Racer on the big screen, even after reading the reviews. I love the Big Screen experience for both large and small films, and if nothing else Speed Racer is a Big Screen sfx movie. Thanks!
Since a number of months have elapsed since the initial rumors of the Cinemart’s demise appeared on this page, I wonder how the theater is faring. My wife and I saw “No Country for Old Men” last Friday. While the place was not packed, there were a good number of attendees. Hopefully, the theory that “no news is good news” will apply here and that the Cinemart will survive the “onslaught of Atlas”.
Since moving to Forest Hills from Greenpoint a little over six years ago, I have really gravitated to the Metropolitan Avenue part of this neighborhood, eventhough I live right off Queens Blvd. The Cinemart, along with the many restaurants and shops, is a major drawing card and I really hope it can survive.
Thanks, LostMemory.
Thanks, woodie. That’s between Myrtle and Jamaica Avenues. When did you move away from there ? I passed by there many times in 1990 going to and from a gal I dated who once lived at 103-15 110th Street. I remember a sign for a Dr. Cippolina at the southwest corner of Myrtle Avenue and 110th St.
YES I REMEMBER SEEING ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOOS NEST THERE ALSO. I LIVED ON 110 ST NEAR 86th AVE RICHMOND HILL .
Thanks, woodie. Where in Richmond Hill did you live ?
The last film I saw at the old single Cinemart before it was multiplexed was “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” in August 1976.
The first films I saw there were “Where Were You When The Lights Went Out ?” and “Hot Millions” in early 1969.
I grew up in Richmond Hill and went to the Cinemart every Fri and Sat night IN THE 70’S. I remember it was only a dollar or 1.50 for movie like Jaws , Star Wars, Deliverence and the Longest Yard.
I ENJOYED THE TIMES WE HAD THERE .
Good for you, woodie. 1:20 PM screening of “Bourne Ultimatum” at the Ridgewood on Sat Aug 25 2007 was $ 5 also.
What is it you especially like about the Cinemart, woodie ?
Yesterday I went to see the Simpsons at the cimemart. On Wendsay its only 5 dollars to get in so you cant beat that price.I know the atlas theatre is very nice ( I have gone there many times)but there is just something about the cinemart that I really like about it.
Noted, Ed Solero. I never “leaned” on it heavily enough to be disappointed with it. My main complaint about it, seeing “The Right Stuff” there in late April 1984, was how the thudding rock bass from the soundtrack of “Footloose” in the adjacent cinema, kept coming through the wall in “Right Stuff”’s quieter moments.
But that was so much more enjoyable than what I’d just walked out of, “Terms Of Endearment” at the Arion, that I really didn’t care.
I only wish the Cinemart itself was a better physical facility. My thoughts on the place stand pretty much as I posted on March 26th above.
By “street”, above, I meant 72nd Avenue.
I agree with you, cinalpvill, on all counts about the Cinemart. Eddie’s Sweet Shop right across the street is part of the deal also.