The BTM Criterion Cinemas, as it is now known, shows its last film later this evening, October 12, 2023. After the loss of the Ciné 4 in 2022, the closure of BTM Criterion leaves New Haven without a first-run cinema.
Films screening on its last day were The Exorcist: Believer, The Royal Hotel, Saw X, The Creator, Flora and Son, Stop Making Sense, A Haunting in Venice, Dumb Money, and Bottoms.
As of July, 2018, all three screens were in action. Screen 1 (HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3, INCREDIBLES 2) was digital, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE—FALLOUT and A QUIET PLACE were screening in 35mm on screen 2, and E.T. and JAWS were screening on screen 3 (presumably 35mm, but unconfirmed) the night I attended.
I scanned my Capri flyers from the ‘90s if you’re interested in what was screening there (and at the short-lived single screen 35mm theater in the basement of Cyrano’s downtown) between 1991 and 1997.
According to this 2023 article (and a 2024 visit), the Cinema West in Wheatland reopened in April, 2023:
https://www.pcrecordtimes.com/stories/hofrock-and-ferguson-present-cinema-west,2940
The BTM Criterion Cinemas, as it is now known, shows its last film later this evening, October 12, 2023. After the loss of the Ciné 4 in 2022, the closure of BTM Criterion leaves New Haven without a first-run cinema.
Films screening on its last day were The Exorcist: Believer, The Royal Hotel, Saw X, The Creator, Flora and Son, Stop Making Sense, A Haunting in Venice, Dumb Money, and Bottoms.
An article about the closure and sale of the Ciné-4:
https://www.newhavenindependent.org/article/cine4_sale_childcare
Photos of the demolition of the Leo S. Bing Theater, which began Monday, April 6, 2020, to make way for a $750 million new building project at LACMA.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-04-07/lacma-demolition-begins-photos
As of July, 2018, all three screens were in action. Screen 1 (HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3, INCREDIBLES 2) was digital, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE—FALLOUT and A QUIET PLACE were screening in 35mm on screen 2, and E.T. and JAWS were screening on screen 3 (presumably 35mm, but unconfirmed) the night I attended.
I scanned my Capri flyers from the ‘90s if you’re interested in what was screening there (and at the short-lived single screen 35mm theater in the basement of Cyrano’s downtown) between 1991 and 1997.
The Fireweed is now officially closed. It went out with a whimper, screening the Miley Cyrus film “The Last Song.”
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