Cinema Village
22 E. 12th Street,
New York,
NY
10003
22 E. 12th Street,
New York,
NY
10003
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In December of 1972 this theater programmed “The Genesis Children,” a controversial movie about nude boys frolicking on a European beach. I believe that the cinema was programmed for a time in the 1980s by the late Richard Schwartz, who had also programmed the Thalia (uptown) and Thalia Soho with frequently-changing repertory double bills.
This is where I saw Chow Yun Fat for the first time in film and in person. I saw “Hard Boiled” with “The Killer” in a double feature that changed my life and made me want to go into film. This theater was known to show many a Hong kong Retrospective before they went Art House 100%. I also saw Chow Yun Fat there when they gave one of his retrospectives there in 1996. I got his autograph and we spoke about his American Debut in “The Replacement Killers”. The last film I saw there was the controversial French Rape Film “Baise Moi” about two or three years ago.
The theatre opened in 1963. Total seating for the 3 auditoriums is 310.
One thing I forgot to add the building was originally a firehouse.
I ran this theatre for awhile in the eighties and it truly envoked the feel of Greenwich Village. At that time we were going back and forth between revival and off-beat independant films. It was not unusual to see celebraties on line or in the audience. I recall Richard Gere coming one night and Ronnie Spector another. It is great it is still here when all the other village theatres dies slow sad deaths.