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Landmark continued to operate the Egyptian Theater until June 27, 2013, after the company declined to renew its lease with Seattle Central College. [5] SIFF took over the lease in May 2014 and raised $340,000 from crowdsourced donations to repair and reopen the theater. [6] The SIFF Egyptian Theater reopened on October 3, 2014. [7]
The Grand Illusion Cinema is the longest running independent cinema in the city of Seattle, Washington, and has become a landmark of the film community. Opened as The Movie House in 1970, the cinema became the city's first intimate arthouse and showcased foreign and revival films. The Grand Illusion is located in Seattle's University District.
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Film history timeline, City of Seattle Office of Film and Music, 2014 "Seattle Film History". seattle.gov. 2014; Vanessa Ho (July 17, 2014), "Movies made in Seattle and Washington", Seattle Post-Intelligencer; Feliks Banel (March 4, 2010), "The Best Movies Made in Seattle (an Oscar Preview)", Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The turnaround began in 1997 when developers revealed plans to turn the Cinerama into a dinner theater or a rock-climbing club. This sparked a grassroots effort to save the historic venue, with local film buffs circulating petitions and issuing an urgent cry for help, which was answered by multi-billionaire Paul Allen, himself a movie fan and patron of the theater during its 1960s heyday.
The Film Center includes a 90-seat multi-use theater, multi-media classroom, exhibition spaces, archives, and offices for SIFF and the Film School. [12] In October 2011, SIFF Cinema moved from McCaw Hall to its current location in the Uptown Theater. SIFF utilizes all three of the Uptown's three screens for year-round programming.
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