Cinemart Cinemas
106-03 Metropolitan Avenue,
Forest Hills,
NY
11375
106-03 Metropolitan Avenue,
Forest Hills,
NY
11375
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Fox kept this in release till almost 1970 both single and double. At one point it was even paired with “Planet of the Apes” and then under “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls"
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The cimemart reminds me of when I was younger , where you could just go in to a movie sit back and forget about everything on the outside.
I have been going to the cinemart for many years . I remember in the 70s going there every fri night with my friends and seeing jaws, star wars and alot of other good movies. You couldnt beat the price
$2.00 for admission . I’m so glad that the theatre is still there and I go often.
I heard they were restoring this theater. Any word of what the interior looks like?
We were on the Cinecom run and played this turkey that was shot on videotape and converted to film.
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This was one of the longest engagements the Cinemart ever played, 56 weeks. On the one year anniversary Cinecom paid for a huge cake that we served to the customers and the staff
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One of the longest runs the Cinemart ever had was 56 weeks of “A Room With A View”. On the Friday we hit 52 weeks Cinecom paid for a huge cake that we served to the customers that day.
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1972 the Cinemart was part of this Universal Blue Ribbon run of “Silent Running” and “Andromena Strain”. These usually opened at the Midway which must have had another booking.
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Thanks for posting the link to that clip, Warren. Film Forum in lower Manhattan used to have live piano accompaniment to silent films during certain screenings.
Our sensibility has changed so much since 1917 that we, or at least I, now have to watch a commentary to understand what was so scary about “Caligari” when it first came out : Cesare, the sleepwalker, slowly but surely sneaking up on a sleeping victim, totally unaware of him, and hence, totally vulnerable TO him. Hence, the danger and the horror of it. It’s similar to the shower scene in “Psycho” that way.
Instead of “Cinemart”, “CinArt”, which sounds like “sin art” ?
I know what you mean, Warren, about the name “Cinemart”. Kinda sounds like “Mini Mart” to me.
Silent horrors with “live” piano accompaniment:
Like the scene in the film “Schindler’s List” in which the Nazi soldier is playing Mozart on the piano while the ghetto Jews are being shot up by other Nazi soldiers, and Krystallnacht is happening all around.
I think it originally was called the “CinemaArt Theater”, and that evolved into “Cinemart”.
I agree, I also don’t care for the name.
I am hoping to correspond with Cinema Treasures member “jazzara” (J. Azzara) who was an usher at the Cinemart during the late 1970’s, and posted on June 5, 2004 about photos before the theater was twinned. However, that was the only posting & no photos were shared since.
I am a Forest Hills preservationist who is working with the owner of the Cinemart to assist him in the restoration of an ornate coffered ceiling from 1925 in the entryway/lobby, that was concealed with industry-standard paneling. This is one of the many activities I hope to accomplish in honor of Forest Hills' 100th anniversary this year. For more information regarding the Cinemart and my restoration goals, please follow a March 15th Daily News article by reporter Nicholas Hirshon.
www.nydailynews.com/boroughs/story/399660p-338622c.html
I would appreciate it if anyone can share photos of the interior/exterior prior to the 2002 renovation (1925-2001). This will assist us in the restoration. If you don’t have any photos, I would appreciate any bit of advice as to where I can find some. Thank you! Please e-mail Michael at
Reporter Nicholas Hirshon of the Daily News recently wrote a story about the Cinemart; the link can be found above.
An article about the Cinemart Cinemas was published in today’s Daily News. Apparently they’re going to reveal the ornate ceiling in the entryway in coming weeks.
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The director of “Why We Fight” recently spoke at the Cinemart Cinemas.
Yes, and there is also Academy Award nomination-induced re-release at the end of the old year, and / or the beginning of the new one. I remember the Christmas 1983 Jedi re-opening in Manhattan theaters.
Christmas 1983 Jedi re-opened on the neighborhood run while playing 70mm at the Warner.
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Even in the 80’s good films had “legs”. In this ad the Cinemart is playing “An Officer & a Getleman” it was in it’s 31st week. It had played the Trylon for 27 weeks and then we got it along with the Arion. We played it for 6 weeks and still sold out on Saturday nights. At some point it also played the Haven and then the Drake.
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I had to do a double take earlier tonight as I noticed the ad for a new movie called “Dirty Love” in the New York Times… the list of theaters at which the film is being screened included the “Cinemart Twin” in Forest Hills!!! For a few brief confused moments I wasn’t sure if it was 1985 or if the theater had been miraculously reduced from 7 screens to 2!!! Of course, I quickly realized this was nothing more than a common printing error… but figured this was as good a place as any to make note of it.
Call it a slow Friday evening…
The Cinemart and most of the other neighborhood housed in Queens and Long Island advertised in the Long Island Press. This was an evening paper.
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The Cinemart and most of the other neighborhood housed in Queens and Long Island advertised in the Long Island Press. This was an evening paper.
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There is a small ad here from 1963 when the Cinemart was a revival house similar to the Cinema Village.
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My first time to the Cinemart Cinema was late January or early February 1969 to see a double feature of “Where Were You When The Lights Went Out ?”, a comedy about the Nov 9 1965 NYC blackout starring Robert Morse, and “Hot Millions”, a crime mystery starring Peter Ustinov. It was one cinema then. I returned in August 1976 to see “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest”. Still one cinema, and pretty shabby looking. I was next there in late April 1984 to see “The Right Stuff”, after finding out that, for me, “Terms Of Endearment” at the Arion was The Wrong Stuff. It was a twin by then, in much better condition. I could hear the bass from the soundtrack of “Footloose” pounding through the wall during the quiet moments of “The Right Stuff”.
Other films I remember seeing there : “Psycho III”, July 1986, “The Last Emperor”, 30 April 1988, “Jacknife”, with Robert DeNiro and Cathy Baker, early April 1989, “The Little Mermaid”, early December 1989, “Bad Influence”, late March 1990, “Red Corner”, Saturday 1 November 1997, and, most recently, the Spielberg / Tom Cruise “War Of The Worlds” Saturday August 6, 2005, preceded by an ice cream sundae at Eddie’s Sweet Shop.
1963 a cheapie kids matinee
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In 1964 the Cinemart was part of this huge neighborhood run of “Mad Mad World”.
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