Loew's 72nd Street East

1230 3rd Avenue,
New York, NY 10021

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Al Alvarez
Al Alvarez on February 11, 2010 at 4:42 pm

Nope. That was the Paris.

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jbailey212
jbailey212 on February 11, 2010 at 3:31 pm

Does anyone remember if the Tower East was where “Cousin Cousine” enjoyed its lengthy first-run release (I think the year was 1976)? If it wasn’t the Tower East, which theater was it and do you know how many weeks it ran?

TLSLOEWS
TLSLOEWS on November 6, 2009 at 6:25 pm

Good site great color pic from 1986.

KingBiscuits
KingBiscuits on April 4, 2009 at 4:29 am

I’ve been attempting to do a list of films that played here from the 1960’s to the 1990’s, but newspaper strikes in 1963 and 1978 have caused me to halt the 1960’s and 1970’s lists. So instead, I will give you a list of movies that played here in the 1980’s.

Here we go.

-1980 began with a continued run of Kramer vs. Kramer
6/11/1980 Urban Cowboy (8 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
8/8/1980 The Fiendish Plot Of Dr. Fu Manchu (6 weeks)
9/19/1980 Ordinary People (11 weeks)
12/3/1980 The Competition (13 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
3/6/1981 All Night Long (4 weeks, stereo)
4/3/1981 Atlantic City (7 weeks)
5/22/1981 The Four Seasons (11 weeks)
8/7/1981 Heavy Metal (4 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
9/4/1981 Private Lessons (3 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
9/23/1981 Only When I Laugh (8 weeks, stereo)
11/19/1981 Absence Of Malice (12 weeks, stereo)
2/11/1982 One From The Heart (3 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
3/5/1982 I’m Dancing As Fast As I Can (6 weeks)
4/16/1982 Wrong Is Right (6 weeks)
5/28/1982 The Lucky Star (1 week)
6/4/1982 Hanky Panky (3 weeks, stereo)
6/25/1982 Monty Python: Live At The Hollywood Bowl (3 weeks)
7/16/1982 Diner (4 weeks)
8/13/1982 Tempest in 70mm (7 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
10/1/1982 My Favorite Year (3 weeks)
10/22/1982 Monsignor (4 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
11/19/1982 Still Of The Night (4 weeks)
12/17/1982 Tootsie (7 weeks)
2/4/1983 Without A Trace (4 weeks)
¾/1983 Tender Mercies (4 weeks, stereo)
4/1/1983 Man, Woman and Child (5 weeks)
5/6/1983 Flashdance (MO, 7 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
6/22/1983 The Survivors (2 weeks)
7/8/1983 Trading Places (MO, 4 weeks)
8/5/1983 The Star Chamber in 70mm (4 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
9/2/1983 Gandhi in 70mm (RE, 3 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
9/23/1983 Trading Places (RE, 3 weeks)
10/9/1983 Rumble Fish (5 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
11/18/1983 A Christmas Story (4 weeks)
12/14/1983 Silkwood (12 weeks)
3/9/1984 The Hotel New Hampshire (5 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
4/13/1984 Against All Odds (MO, 1 week, Dolby Stereo)
4/20/1984 Champions (1 week, Dolby Stereo)
4/27/1984 Footloose (MO, 1 week, Dolby Stereo)
5/4/1984 Purple Hearts (1 week, Dolby Stereo)
5/11/1984 This Is Spinal Tap (MO, 1 week, Dolby Stereo)
5/18/1984 Moscow On The Hudson (MO, 5 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
6/22/1984 Top Secret (7 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
8/10/1984 Phar Lap (6 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
9/19/1984 Amadeus in 70mm (9 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
11/21/1984 Falling In Love (8 weeks)
1/18/1985 That’s Dancing! (3 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
2/8/1985 Witness (16 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
5/31/1985 Fletch (8 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
7/26/1985 Wetherby (2 weeks, stereo)
8/9/1985 Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (3 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
8/30/1985 Compromising Positions (9 weeks)
11/1/1985 Macaroni (5 weeks)
12/6/1985 closed (2 weeks)
12/18/1985 Out Of Africa in 70mm (14 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
3/28/1986 Ginger and Fred (7 weeks)
5/14/1986 Sweet Liberty (5 weeks)
6/18/1986 Legal Eagles (5 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
7/25/1986 Heartburn (6 weeks)
9/12/1986 ‘night, Mother (3 weeks)
10/3/1986 Children Of A Lesser God (12 weeks)
12/25/1986 Brighton Beach Memoirs (6 weeks)
2/6/1987 Dead Of Winter (4 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
3/6/1987 Angel Heart (5 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
4/10/1987 Making Mr. Right (4 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
5/8/1987 Gardens Of Stone (7 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
6/24/1987 Spaceballs in 70mm (7 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
8/14/1987 No Way Out (5 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
9/18/1987 Fatal Attraction (13 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
12/18/1987 Ironweed (7 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
2/5/1988 The Unbearable Lightness Of Being (7 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
3/25/1988 A New Life (3 weeks)
4/15/1988 The Last Emperor in 70mm (RE, 2 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
4/29/1988 The Last Emperor (RE, 3 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
5/20/1988 Willow in 70mm (8 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
7/15/1988 A Fish Called Wanda (7 weeks)
9/2/1988 Eight Men Out (4 weeks)
9/30/1988 Married To The Mob (MO, 2 weeks, Dolby Stereo SR)
10/14/1988 The Accused (8 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
12/9/1988 Mississippi Burning (16 weeks, Dolby Stereo SR)
3/31/1989 Rain Man (RE, 4 weeks, Dolby Stereo SR)
4/28/1989 Miss Firecracker (1 week, Dolby Stereo)
5/5/1989 Lost Angels (2 weeks, Dolby Stereo SR)
5/19/1989 Heathers (MO, 1 week)
5/26/1989 Criminal Law (MO, 1 week, Dolby Stereo)
6/2/1989 Earth Girls Are Easy (MO, 4 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
6/30/1989 Great Balls Of Fire (2 weeks, Dolby Stereo SR)
7/14/1989 Peter Pan (RE, 4 weeks)
8/9/1989 Honey, I Shrunk The Kids (MO, 1 week, Dolby Stereo)
8/18/1989 Let It Ride (2 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
8/30/1989 Shirley Valentine (6 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
10/13/1989 Crimes and Misdemeanors (17 weeks)

Mikeoaklandpark
Mikeoaklandpark on March 18, 2009 at 2:30 am

A second thought. They should rename this theatre the Tower East

SethLewis
SethLewis on March 18, 2009 at 2:29 am

Oh and the movie of Richard Nader’s rock and roll revival shows Let the Good Times Roll with Chuck Berry and Bill Haley and the Comets with decent sound in the early 70s when they were booking Columbia Showcase product

Mikeoaklandpark
Mikeoaklandpark on March 18, 2009 at 2:27 am

I am glad this theatre is doing well. I know AMC doesn’t like single screen theatres. I was sure they would have closed this theatre.

SethLewis
SethLewis on March 18, 2009 at 1:05 am

Another one of my growing up at the movies landmarks…Vivid memories of the Tower East with Fantasia, Yellow Submarine, a couple of dire MGM Showcase runs of Doris Day in Caprice and Tony Curtis in Dont Make Waves, then some real landmarks – Love Story, The Godfather first show opening Saturday weekend, Deliverance, The Great Gatsby (my Dad who wasn’t cheap making faces at the $4.50 ticket price) and actually a better picture in retrospect, The Stepford Wives, All the President’s Men, Mississippi Burning

The programming has always been a mix of arthouse and mainstream showcase and I could never in my mind imagine how they could twin it effectively…in many ways it is lucky it’s in a condo in the basement rather than above ground…one of the reasons for its survival vs say the Beekman…The Upper East Side’s silk stocking needs a theatre like this which can day date effectively with Broadway or the Upper West Side or even the Ziegfeld…what strikes me now is how long pictures stay there…Monster’s Ball was there for nearly 6 months a few years ago…in that way its not unlike the Paris

HowardBHaas
HowardBHaas on March 17, 2009 at 8:16 pm

After a very long run of “Frost/Nixon” this weekend “Duplicity” opens at the Tower East.

edblank
edblank on May 27, 2008 at 9:23 pm

Nice theater, as I recall, but the bookings could be eclectic.

edblank
edblank on May 24, 2008 at 9:31 pm

Saw “The Goodbye Girl” here in December 1977.
I can’t think of any other theater that one enters from the top of the balcony – a true balcony, that is. – Ed Blank

dave-bronx™
dave-bronx™ on May 16, 2008 at 1:00 am

Is this still amc/Loews? It is still listed as such on Fandango, but Moviephone just lists it as Tower East, not 72nd St E., and no amc/Loews. Moviephone lists the Orpheum, Lincoln and 84th by their correct names, same as Fandango, just this one is different. Maybe it’s going to be sold?

KingBiscuits
KingBiscuits on March 4, 2008 at 9:57 pm

Definitely, Maybe is currently running here. Probably didn’t do too well.

KingBiscuits
KingBiscuits on February 19, 2008 at 9:01 am

I just found that my answer is yes.

KingBiscuits
KingBiscuits on February 18, 2008 at 2:31 pm

Were the Tower East on 72nd and the Tower East on 71st different theatres or the same?

owenspierre81
owenspierre81 on February 18, 2008 at 1:30 pm

Here is a list of the selected films that were shown at LOEWS 72ND STREET EAST (aka TOWER EAST)

12/18/98- The Prince of Egypt
6/2/95- The Bridges of Madison County
7/13/01- The Score
11/16/01- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
10/19/01- The Last Castle
6/8/01- Swordfish
7/26/96- A Time to Kill
9/20/96- The First Wives Club
3/21/97- Selena
7/6/90- Ghost
10/2/98- What Dreams May Come
7/30/99- Deep Blue Sea
11/11/94- Interview with the Vampire
12/25/94- I.Q.
7/3/92- A League of Their Own
2/18/00- Pitch Black
9/19/97- In & Out
6/5/98- A Perfect Murder
12/25/91- JFK
11/16/90- Dances with Wolves
4/10/98- City of Angels
5/31/91- Soapdish
12/25/99- Any Given Sunday
1/12/01- Traffic
4/20/01- Crocodile Dundee In Los Angeles
9/28/01- Hearts In Atlantis
Aug. 2001- Apocalypse Now Redux
Dec. 1992- Forever Young
3/24/00- Romeo Must Die
10/22/99- Bringing Out The Dead
2/28/97- Rosewood
2/13/98- Sphere
6/18/99- The General’s Daughter
11/13/92- Bram Stoker’s Dracula
11/21/97- Midnight at the Garden of Good and Evil
TBA 1999- Life is Beautiful
Sept. 1992- School Ties
8/7/98- Snake Eyes
8/11/00- Bless the Child

owenspierre81
owenspierre81 on January 11, 2008 at 8:40 pm

I forgot to mention that the Jim Carrey/Kate Winslet romantic comedy ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND was also shown at the Loews 72nd Street East on March 19, 2004.

owenspierre81
owenspierre81 on January 11, 2008 at 10:30 am

LOEWS 72ND STREET EAST movie list from 2002-07

1/11/02- Monster’s Ball
5/31/02- The Sum of All Fears
7/26/02- Austin Powers in Goldmember
9/20/02- The Four Feathers
11/8/02- Far From Heaven
12/27/02- The Hours
4/18/03- A Mighty Wind
5/30/03- The Italian Job
9/12/03- Lost In Translation
11/7/03- Love Actually
1/16/04- Monster
6/11/04- The Stepford Wives
7/23/04- The Bourne Supremacy
9/1/04- Vanity Fair
11/5/04- Alfie
12/3/04- House of Flying Daggers
1/14/05- The Merchant of Venice
2/11/05- Being Julia
5/6/05- House of Wax
6/3/05- Cinderella Man
8/31/05- The Constant Gardener
10/7/05- Two for the Money
10/28/05- Prime
12/23/05- Munich
4/28/06- United 93
6/9/06- A Prairie Home Companion
9/15/06- The Black Dahila
11/22/06- The Fountain
12/21/06- Curse of the Golden Flower
2/16/07- Breach
4/20/07- In The Land of Women
5/18/07- Away From Her
6/29/07- Evening
8/3/07- The Bourne Ultimatum
10/19/07- Gone Baby Gone
11/2/07- American Gangster
12/21/07- Charlie Wilson’s War

br91975
br91975 on October 11, 2007 at 2:22 pm

Continuing the trend in recent years of booking the 72nd Street East with mostly Universal product, ‘American Gangster’ is opening there on November 2nd.

Eric Friedmann
Eric Friedmann on June 26, 2007 at 10:25 am

I saw BEING JULIA at this theater just before I moved out of Manhattan. I’d only been there once before a couple of years earlier to see THE HOURS.

RobertR
RobertR on October 18, 2006 at 2:25 pm

The Burtons in 1966 day & dating with the Criterion
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RobertR
RobertR on September 15, 2006 at 5:47 am

Anyone hear anything about this? I hope another chain can take it over if AMC closes it.