In the news. Warning of same-sex kiss in a film. https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/oklahoma-theater-posts-warning-sign-sex-kiss-pixars-lightyear-rcna34725
In her extraordinary autobiography, “Finding Me,” published in 2022, actress Viola Davis, who grew up in next-door Central Falls, mentions going to the Leroy Theatre with her siblings, probably in the 1970’s. She writes: “After that, we took our Easter money to Leroy Theatre to watch a double feature and eat either hot dogs or large bags of M&M’s. Seventy- five cents for a double feature and 35 cents for a big bag of M&M’s.” (Page 74)
The Park Theatre and Events Center has re-opened after being shuttered during the Covid 19 pandemic.
https://turnto10.com/news/entertainment/cranston-rhode-island-park-theatre-event-center-reopening-rolfe-square-dig-in-dining-entertainment-restaurant-group
Surprised to see there was actually a reserved seat policy for this film here. “Ways of Love” was a distributor created trilogy which included the controversial “The Miracle” by Roberto Rossellini.
Saw this here with a substantial and appreciative Newport audience on Saturday, April 2. From the JPT webpage the following day as I searched for something to represent an actual theatrical run.
In the news. Warning of same-sex kiss in a film. https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/oklahoma-theater-posts-warning-sign-sex-kiss-pixars-lightyear-rcna34725
In her extraordinary autobiography, “Finding Me,” published in 2022, actress Viola Davis, who grew up in next-door Central Falls, mentions going to the Leroy Theatre with her siblings, probably in the 1970’s. She writes: “After that, we took our Easter money to Leroy Theatre to watch a double feature and eat either hot dogs or large bags of M&M’s. Seventy- five cents for a double feature and 35 cents for a big bag of M&M’s.” (Page 74)
I saw this here on July 31, 1959.
A.k.a. “Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto”. A 1954 Japanese film with Toshiro Mifune.
The Park Theatre and Events Center has re-opened after being shuttered during the Covid 19 pandemic. https://turnto10.com/news/entertainment/cranston-rhode-island-park-theatre-event-center-reopening-rolfe-square-dig-in-dining-entertainment-restaurant-group
Two films from 1956.
A 1962 film.
Taken in 1941.
This ad was from February 4, 1956 in The Woonsocket Call.
Saw this film here in 1976 when the photo was taken.
Rossellini, Stendhal.
The marquee signage gives the theatre the name “B. F. Keith’s Palace.”
Surprised to see there was actually a reserved seat policy for this film here. “Ways of Love” was a distributor created trilogy which included the controversial “The Miracle” by Roberto Rossellini.
Didn’t realize this place had shown art house fare (“The Baker’s Wife”) seventeen years before it became the Art Cinema in 1958.
Actually released in Italy in 1956. Shown here and there in the US in 1959 as “Big Jeeter.”
“Passion” was a 1919 film by Ernst Lubitsch, also known as “ Madame Dubarry.”
A 1921 film.
I guess patrons didn’t get the French film by Claude Lelouch.
Saw this here with a substantial and appreciative Newport audience on Saturday, April 2. From the JPT webpage the following day as I searched for something to represent an actual theatrical run.
“The Island of Procida” was the 1948 film “Isola di Montecristo.”
The film can be seen complete on YouTube but without subtitles. Original title: “Raduga”
The film can be seen complete on YouTube but without subtitles. Original title: “Raduga”.
The film can be seen complete on YouTube but without subtitles. Original title: “Raduga”.
“Divina creatura,” 1975, Giuseppe Patroni Griffi.
Previously the Showcase Cinemas Warwick Mall.