Last night I went to the Boston Film Festival to see ‘Buddy’, a documentary about the former mayor of Providence that is well worth seeing. It will be shown again there tomorrow night — the only film this year to get a repeat showing.
I saw a poster for ‘Elizabethtown’ at the theatre, but it’s not part of the festival.
On the Park Street side of this building, the apartment entrance at #140 has a sign over it reading PARK CINEMA HOUSE. It is to the left of the Physical Therapy sign in the rightmost photo that Bryan linked to.
Many military base cinemas still exist. Reel Time Theaters is a chain of Army and Air Force base theatres. There are also Navy and Marine Corps theatres, but I can’t find such a page listing these.
The Boston Film Festival has been cut to five days, September 9-13, and will take place only at Loews Boston Common. The event feels like it’s on the verge of disappearing, with no advertising and much less newspaper coverage than I’m used to seeing.
When I dropped by the theatre last night, I saw no signs in the lobby for the festival, and was directed up to the third floor to pick up a program from an unmarked pile on the concession-stand counter.
According to the Globe newspaper ad, the theatre’s telephone answering machine, and this article, the Franklin Zeotrope will close permanently after the last shows on Thursday, September 15.
The final week’s films:
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Fantastic Four
Herbie: Fully Loaded (Saturday and Sunday matinee only)
Must Love Dogs
The Skeleton Key
Tickets are $5.50 in the evening, $4.00 for Saturday and Sunday matinees.
Two for the price of one on Tuesday evening.
As a movie theatre, the Brattle goes back only to 1953. (The building is much older, but was used for live shows before that date.) So I bet there’s an older one out there somewhere.
No. The Washington Street façade has been reduced to two stories, and you can see blue sky through the front windows, but demolition is still not finished. Much of the north wall is also still standing, some of it even taller than two stories.
The only remaining South Shore single screens I can think of are Loring Hall in Hingham, and the Stoughton cinema pub, neither of which I have yet visited. The Wollaston appears to be closed indefinitely. Are there others?
In fact, in the entire Boston area, the only single screens I can recall are the two I listed above, plus the Brattle in Cambridge, the Studio in Belmont, and the Cabot Street in Beverly. (I’m not including museum, college, and IMAX venues.)
As far as I know, the problem wasn’t “too many comments”, it was “too many hits on the Recent Comments function”. That seems to be fixed, at least for now.
I’d like the ability to sign up for e-mail notifications on theatres where I haven’t posted my own comments. For instance, I would love to be able to find out whenever someone posts a comment about any theatre in Massachusetts. Such a facility might reduce the need for a “Recent Comments” list.
Do you mean the final days when it was still called the Stuart (showing second-run double features), or the final days as the Pussycat (showing X-rated films)?
OK, OK, we get your point, you don’t have to keep saying it.
Anyone who wants can get the photos from the site that Bryan linked to. Bryan doesn’t have any photos of his own.
Last night I went to the Boston Film Festival to see ‘Buddy’, a documentary about the former mayor of Providence that is well worth seeing. It will be shown again there tomorrow night — the only film this year to get a repeat showing.
I saw a poster for ‘Elizabethtown’ at the theatre, but it’s not part of the festival.
On the Park Street side of this building, the apartment entrance at #140 has a sign over it reading PARK CINEMA HOUSE. It is to the left of the Physical Therapy sign in the rightmost photo that Bryan linked to.
My July 20 posting proved to be erroneous, as the Boston Film Festival is taking place only at Loews Boston Common and not also at the Harvard Square.
See also my comments about the festival on the Loews Boston Common page.
Many military base cinemas still exist. Reel Time Theaters is a chain of Army and Air Force base theatres. There are also Navy and Marine Corps theatres, but I can’t find such a page listing these.
In Massachusetts, Hanscom Air Force Base has such a theater. Here’s a photo essay about the Hanscom theater.
Camp Edwards on Cape Cod also reportedly has a movie theatre, which is now available to several hundred hurricane refugees.
This theatre is already listed as the Park Cinema 1 & 2, although your description is much better than anything now on the other page
The Boston Film Festival has been cut to five days, September 9-13, and will take place only at Loews Boston Common. The event feels like it’s on the verge of disappearing, with no advertising and much less newspaper coverage than I’m used to seeing.
When I dropped by the theatre last night, I saw no signs in the lobby for the festival, and was directed up to the third floor to pick up a program from an unmarked pile on the concession-stand counter.
According to the Globe newspaper ad, the theatre’s telephone answering machine, and this article, the Franklin Zeotrope will close permanently after the last shows on Thursday, September 15.
The final week’s films:
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Fantastic Four
Herbie: Fully Loaded (Saturday and Sunday matinee only)
Must Love Dogs
The Skeleton Key
Tickets are $5.50 in the evening, $4.00 for Saturday and Sunday matinees.
Two for the price of one on Tuesday evening.
See this page for a flood report on some New Orleans theatres (though not much about the Saenger).
I don’t see any photo there. It says I have to join Webshots to see anything.
A report on New Orleans theatres, including exterior flood photos of the Joy and the State Palace.
A report on the State Palace, the Joy, and other New Orleans theatres, including exterior flood photos.
A report on the Joy, the State Palace, and other New Orleans theatres, including exterior flood photos.
As a movie theatre, the Brattle goes back only to 1953. (The building is much older, but was used for live shows before that date.) So I bet there’s an older one out there somewhere.
Yes, the Franklin Park Theatre is already listed at CinemaTreasures.
No. The Washington Street façade has been reduced to two stories, and you can see blue sky through the front windows, but demolition is still not finished. Much of the north wall is also still standing, some of it even taller than two stories.
The only remaining South Shore single screens I can think of are Loring Hall in Hingham, and the Stoughton cinema pub, neither of which I have yet visited. The Wollaston appears to be closed indefinitely. Are there others?
In fact, in the entire Boston area, the only single screens I can recall are the two I listed above, plus the Brattle in Cambridge, the Studio in Belmont, and the Cabot Street in Beverly. (I’m not including museum, college, and IMAX venues.)
As far as I know, the problem wasn’t “too many comments”, it was “too many hits on the Recent Comments function”. That seems to be fixed, at least for now.
I’d like the ability to sign up for e-mail notifications on theatres where I haven’t posted my own comments. For instance, I would love to be able to find out whenever someone posts a comment about any theatre in Massachusetts. Such a facility might reduce the need for a “Recent Comments” list.
Some of the comments are missing from this news item! The front page says there are 10, but I see only 6 now.
Erasing old comments is a very bad idea. This site is about historic preservation, after all!
Do you mean the final days when it was still called the Stuart (showing second-run double features), or the final days as the Pussycat (showing X-rated films)?
Are you sure about that? I thought Cinerama films showed only at the former RKO Boston (later renamed Boston Cinerama).
What is the date of this newspaper article?
Is it really open? The web site has a press kit from 2002, and no current events on its calendar.