Cinema Studio 1 & 2
1931 Broadway,
New York,
NY
10023
1931 Broadway,
New York,
NY
10023
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I remember this great little place from my college days in the late 70’s. I saw The Marriage of Maria Braun, Taxi Zum Klo, Nosferatau, Remember My Name, just to name a few. It got the best domestic and international art films at the time.
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown played over a year here, most of the run on both screens.
Before this was twinned it had a very nice wide screen for such a small house. Saw Star Is Born there. When this building was torn down it revealed a large ad for Omega Oil from what seemed the teens or 20’s. What was so remarkable was that it had been so well preserved in the darkness for those many decades that the deep green was still vibrant. From all those black and white photos of life at the beginning of the last century it sometimes comes as a shock when you see how colorful life really was back then.
My first memories of this theater in the 60s were of it showing Spanish language films and eventually some soft porn before switching to an art house format…Its glory years as an art house came under Dan Talbot of New Yorker films who later developed the Lincoln Plaza Cinemas…Remember seeing AMARCORD there in the 70s, WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN, LA PETITE VOLEUSE there in the 80s