For several decades before the Wang Center organization acquired it, the theater was called the “Music Hall” and was part of the Sack Cinema chain. It sometimes showed movies and sometimes presented rock concerts.
The Wang organization now also owns the Shubert Theatre, across the street. The Shubert has always been used exclusively for live performance.
This was one of the Landmark chain’s original theaters, although I think its programming policy predated Landmark’s acquisition.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, when I lived there, the Fox Venice showed a different double feature every day — generally classic Hollywood films, foreign films, and obscure art films. The programming policy was very similar to Landmark’s Nuart theatre a few miles away in West LA.
The programming is primarily double features of classic Hollywood and foreign films, with a different program each weekday day. Occasionally, this schedule is interrupted by a week-long first-run film.
The theatre no longer has concerts, but a local bookstore occasionally hosts lectures by authors here.
For several decades before the Wang Center organization acquired it, the theater was called the “Music Hall” and was part of the Sack Cinema chain. It sometimes showed movies and sometimes presented rock concerts.
The Wang organization now also owns the Shubert Theatre, across the street. The Shubert has always been used exclusively for live performance.
This theater was saved after a large outpouring of community support in the late 1980s-early 1990s.
The four additional screens were added in the 1990s, not the 1980s.
The same folks own the nearby Capitol Theater in East Arlington.
Now run by the Columbus Association for the Performing Arts (CAPA). Web site: http://www.capa.com/chicago/index.html
This was one of the Landmark chain’s original theaters, although I think its programming policy predated Landmark’s acquisition.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, when I lived there, the Fox Venice showed a different double feature every day — generally classic Hollywood films, foreign films, and obscure art films. The programming policy was very similar to Landmark’s Nuart theatre a few miles away in West LA.
Described in more detail at…
http://www.capa.com/venues/palace.html
The theater’s web site is:
http://www.brattlefilm.org/
The programming is primarily double features of classic Hollywood and foreign films, with a different program each weekday day. Occasionally, this schedule is interrupted by a week-long first-run film.
The theatre no longer has concerts, but a local bookstore occasionally hosts lectures by authors here.
This theatre belongs to the FEI chain (same as the Somerville Theatre) and should be labelled that way in your database.
Its status is not “Unknown”. It is open and doing quite well!