Directors Guild of America Theater
110 W. 57th Street,
New York,
NY
10019
110 W. 57th Street,
New York,
NY
10019
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The last film to screen at the DGA Theatre while it was still under the aegis of the 57th Street Playhouse was Atom Egoyan’s ‘Exotica’, in the summer of ‘95. (Also, for those who are curious, a fair glimpse of both the interior and exterior of the DGA Theatre/57th Street Playhouse/Normandie/etc. can be seen in the 2003 documentary 'Cinemania’.)
The film version of ‘Little Dorrit’ was 6 hours in length, broken up into two parts – ‘Nobody’s Fault’ and ‘Little Dorrit’s Story’ – and was based on a Charles Dickens novel. If I remember correctly, Cannon Pictures, of all studios, was its U.S. distributor.
I am not familiar with Little Dorrit or that it opened roadshow.
Saw Little Dorrit here on hard ticket. Wonderful little gem of a theater. Too bad it’s no longer open to the public.
And that wasn’t the end of it! From the Normandie I went to the New Yorker to see A CHAPLIN REVIEW which consisted of the three films: SHOULDER ARMS, A DOG’S LIFE, and THE PILGRIM.
One great day I spent at the Normandie, as it was known in 1964, was watching five great French films in a row. They had a French classic film marathon which was, I think, sponsored by distributor Brandon Films. So on March 31, 1964, from morning until evening, I watched Marcel Carne’s PORT OF SHADOWS, Rene' Clair’s LE MILLION, Robert Bresson’s LES DAMES DU BOIS DE BOULOGNE, Jean Renoir’s LE CRIME DE MONSIEUR LANGE, and finally Maurice Cloche’s MONSIEUR VINCENT. One after the other! I don’t know when or what I ate that day, but it was one of the best movie days of my entire life.
This had a really distinctive staircase down to the screen and a really spacious enjoyable lobby downstairs…I remember it well as the Playboy in the 70s screening a Rolling Stones concert film and then with a $1 policy seeing Godfather 2 and Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore…In the 80’s as the 57th St Playhouse as part of the City Cinemas chain, seeing Kurosawa’s Dreams and an Australian film called Shame here
No, it was not not previously listed. I found that appalling. I checked every Manhattan theatre first before posting it. It certainly ought to be listed, and now I’ve done it. I have seen some great films here over the decades! It’s a truly important art house in the history of international film exhibition in New York City!
If it is not it should be listed under the last name from when it was open to the public which was The 57th Street Playhouse.