Cannery Cinema
2801 Leavenworth Street,
San Francisco,
CA
94133
2801 Leavenworth Street,
San Francisco,
CA
94133
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The Cannery Cinema was opened September 16, 1971 with Dirk Bogarde in “Death in Venice”.
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I too saw Above San Francisco here as a tourist in June of 1973.
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
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
My mom and uncle used to see Bogart movies here when they roomed together in the Haight in the late ‘60s-early '70s.
September 16th, 1971 grand opening ad in the photo section.
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.