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A grindhouse or action house [1] is an American term for a theatre that mainly shows low-budget horror, splatter, and exploitation films for adults. According to historian David Church, this theater type was named after the "grind policy", a film-programming strategy dating back to the early 1920s which continuously showed films at cut-rate ...
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Beekman Theatre; Bleecker Street Cinema; City Cinemas Beekman Theatre [5] Fine Arts Theatre; Lincoln Plaza Cinemas; Landmark Sunshine Cinema; Thalia Theatre; Tribeca Cinemas; Ziegfeld Theatre (1969) The Landmark at 57 West; Theater 80 at St Marks Place [Film Geek, 2023, Documentary, Dir. Richard Shepard]
Located at 323 Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas) at West 3rd Street, it was formerly the Waverly Theater, an art house movie theater. IFC Center is owned by AMC Networks (known until July 1, 2011, as Rainbow Media), the entertainment company that owns the cable channels AMC , BBC America (49.99% stake and a joint venture with BBC Studios ...
The same year, Newsday wrote that the theater was "the architectural king" of art-house movie theaters, characterizing it as "Art Deco restored with a vengeance". [21] Robert A. M. Stern wrote in his 1987 book New York 1930 that the theater was "stylishly Modernist", [ 13 ] while Andrew Dolkart wrote in 2012 that "the Art Deco Midtown has one ...
The Rome Theater continued screening movies until it closed in 1987 and became an office building. [4] In 1998 Stephen Apkon and the non-profit Friends of the Rome Theater purchased the 11,000-square-foot (1,000 m 2) Rome Theater and a 6,000-square-foot (560 m 2) land parcel next door for $1 million. Over the next 3 years, another $4 million ...
Cinema Village is a three-screen movie theater in Greenwich Village, New York. [1] It is the oldest continuously operated cinema in Greenwich Village. It was opened in 1963, housed in a converted firehouse on 12th Street. [2] Since the 1980s, it has been owned by Nicholas "Nick" Nicolaou, a Cypriot immigrant who came to the United States at age 12.
Photo of the theatre's interior in 1959. The Loew's State Theatre was a movie theater at 1540 Broadway on Times Square in New York City.Designed by Thomas Lamb in the Adam style, [1] it opened on August 29, 1921, as part of a 16-story office building for the Loew's Theatres company, with a seating capacity of 3,200 [2] and featuring both vaudeville and films.