Cannery Cinema

2801 Leavenworth Street,
San Francisco, CA 94133

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Previously operated by: Walter Reade Theatres

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Cannery Cinema, San Francisco, CA

The Cannery Cinema was opened September 16, 1971 with Dirk Bogarde in “Death in Venice”.

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Gerald A. DeLuca
Gerald A. DeLuca on July 14, 2005 at 1:17 am

I too saw Above San Francisco here as a tourist in June of 1973.

GSenda
GSenda on May 12, 2006 at 5:38 am

This was a little theatre. I saw a couple of movies there.

We used to go to the movie and take the elevator afterwards up to the Hungry Tiger (this was in the early 70s) and would eat our fill of the incredibly cheap lobsters this place served. Best seafood place I ever ate at.

Sadly both the small theatre and the restaurant are gone.

For awhile I had a flier advertising Linda Blair appearing in a live stage play there sometime after it became a live theatre.

I saw Above San Francisco there too. A great film and wonder why no one has updated it.

George Senda
Concord Ca

George75
George75 on July 18, 2006 at 10:29 am

I took my friend there in 1985 to see “Amadeus.” The Cannery was the puniest theater I had ever seen. Sorry to hear it’s gone.

Revilorest
Revilorest on April 15, 2010 at 11:35 pm

I remember ABOVE SAN FRANCISCO at the pocket-sized Cannery Cinema back in the 1970’s. The film moved there for a short time after leaving an equally tiny venue two blocks away at Ghirardelli Square. I can still recall the verses by Robert Louis Stevenson intoned by the amazing Orson Welles as part of his narration.

robin88
robin88 on April 26, 2015 at 12:21 pm

Sometime in the late 1980s or early 90s I saw a film at the Cannery about growing up Irish Catholic in a small Newfoundland village. It was in b&w, but was excellently done from a young man’s perspective. Does anybody out there remember that film? What is the name of that film?

upinthehaight
upinthehaight on January 28, 2016 at 11:27 pm

I remember seeing a Documentary here as part of the SF Film Festival in the early 90’s. The theater was on an upper floor, and was not very large, but a great space.

Chapps
Chapps on January 26, 2017 at 2:12 pm

My godmother took me out for my birthday one year, and we spent the whole day around Fisherman’s Wharf and Ghirardelli Square. And, of course, we went to see ‘Above San Francisco’, which was great – I even got the book for my birthday. Very small theater – the whole Cannery was a bit of an odd shopping center.

sconn
sconn on March 26, 2017 at 5:31 pm

My mom and uncle used to see Bogart movies here when they roomed together in the Haight in the late ‘60s-early '70s.

rivest266
rivest266 on August 11, 2018 at 4:04 pm

September 16th, 1971 grand opening ad in the photo section.

GeorgeSenda
GeorgeSenda on April 4, 2021 at 3:31 am

Across from the theatre was a great restaurant The Hungry Tiger that had cute decor and huge lobsters in their tanks.
We would watch a movie and go have dinner.
I never did figure out why the restaurant closed.
Maybe the Cannery fire did it in.

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