Re: History of NY film and video venues

From: redmond entwistle (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Nov 17 2009 - 12:33:29 PST


Hi John,

thanks for all of your suggestions,
I'll be posting an invitation to frameworks about the show in january,
best,
Redmond

On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:32 +0100, "John Matturri"
<email suppressed> wrote:
> Bleeker Street Cinema also. Before my time, but the Charles, I think on
> Avenue B or C, and Cinema 16. No idea where its screenings were held.
>
> j
>
> Saul Ostrow wrote:
> > I think it was the Thalia on 8th ave had mid-night shows - I saw
> > Chesea Girls there and I think also Empire
> >
> >
> > On 11/16/09 6:58 PM, "Fred Camper" <email suppressed> wrote:
> >
> > A movie theater called the 55th Street Playhouse, which was indeed on
> > 55th Street, had a brief period in early 1964 of showing avant-garde
> > films with one week runs. I saw "Twice a Man" there.
> >
> > The Astor Place Playhouse showed avant-garde films, I believe around
> > 1965. I'm not sure who organized this; it might have been Jonas Mekas.
> >
> > There was also a period of screenings at the City Hall Cinema, likely
> > organized by Mekas, where there was a complete Brakhage retrospective
> > (perhaps the first ever?) in the mid-1960s.
> >
> > I don't even know if these places are physically extant today.
> >
> > Fred Camper
> > Chicago
> >
> >
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