Screening Room
2581 Piedmont Road NE,
Atlanta,
GA
30324
2581 Piedmont Road NE,
Atlanta,
GA
30324
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Previously operated by: Weis Theatres
Previous Names: Broadview Plaza Theatre, Broadview I & II
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This was initially a 420-seat single screen theatre located in the corner of the Broadview Plaza Shopping Centre. It was opened by the Weis Theatres chain as the Broadview Cinema on June 19, 1970 with Linda Gillen & Michael Greer in “The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart”. A second and much smaller auditorium was added on July 14, 1972 which opened with Alan Bates in “A Day in the Death of Joe Egg”.
When Weis Theatres moved out of the Atlanta area, the original theatre was converted into a nightclub and the newer theatre was taken over by Lefont and renamed the Screening Room in 1978, operating until its closure in 1998.
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The entire Lindbergh Plaza shopping center was recently demolished to make way for a new shopping center/residential development.
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The Sex Pistols played their first American gig here in January 1978.
Cool name.And the Sex Pistols??
One of the later films shown here was a tribute to Claymation that was outstanding. That would have been sometime in the late 80’s, if I remember correctly. It was a wonderful theater!
The Screening Room Theatre was what I remember there, around 1980-82 this stretch of Piedmont Road was where I could be found in multiple places, shopped at the K-Mart a few doors down from The Screening Room, took a bunch of photos in the photo booth, which was already ancient at that time and so gave weird “film noir” shots. The giant Atlanta Flea Market across the street (many years before the site of Piedmont Drive-In Theater, I have read and now the Marta Train Station) Victoria Station was just down the street, as were Copperfields, Ken’s Tavern, the Harvest Moon Saloon, all gone… in fact, all I see when riding through there that appears the same is Zesto’s burger joint and the ruins of the Shoney’s Big Boy, but I digress.
I saw some great “avant garde” sort of films at The Screening Room Theatre, including Jean-Luc Godard’s “Every Man For Himself” and The Clash “Rude Boy” documentary, both in first run. Great times all those years ago.
Just to revive this, the films I remember seeing at the Screening Room was a poor animated version of Asimov’s Nightfall, Gregory’s Girl, and the rerelease of the Manchurian Candidate.
For a while I lived in the apartment complex to the north and regularly at at the Rice Bowl in the same shopping center.
I loved all the Lefont theaters. I was at the grand opening of the Plaza and saw the Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, Blade Runner, and the Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai there. I saw Rocky Horror several times at the Silver Screen (and saw Shock Treatment there, too). I remember seeing Spinal Tap at the Tara.
This opened as Broadview on June 19th, 1970 and its 2nd screen opened on July 14th, 1972, It became the Screening room in 1978.
and closed in 1998.