The Haravd Film Archive has coordinated film series screenings with the Brattle. So, the University’s film group (not the business office, as far as I know) has worked with them. The theater is a non-profit, and it sits in the heart of Harvard University. Students are among the main patrons. But yes, I think you’re right. So far there has been no report that the University has offered any fianancial assistance.
The Brattle has given to Harvard – its students and faculty.
Harvard, it appears, can save the Brattle. But will they?
For a world-class institution that professess to be giving (at least, that’s what Hollywood would like us to believe, seeing as how they’re so in love with the place) they’re looking pretty darn stingy right now.
Spent a lot of time at the Deerpath in the ‘70s and early '80s. Such a beutiful theater. It was mainly a second-run theater, with prices between $1.50 to $3.00. They played mainly family-oriented films. Not to may R-rated features. The played Rocky 1-3, Star Wars, Empire, E.T., and Raiders. And among the rarities I recall Posse, The Late Show, Silent Movie, and Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen.
It was closed and renovated in 1982. It re-opened as a first-run theater (with a $5.00 ticket price) in 1983 with Superman III. The remodeling included, as previously mentioned, airline seats. But but all of the seats were airline seats. There was a column of them in the center, four to each row (?), for maybe the rear half of the theater.
The theater had a terrific balcony. According to http://www.thecatlow.com, The Deerpath and the Catlow were somewhat similar in their architectural floorplans – the significant difference being the Catlow’s lack of a balcony. The Deerpath’s interior design motif was quite different and Iannelli was not involved with that design in any way. The theater closed its doors in the early 1980’s. It has since been converted into a small shopping mall.
My best recollection is The Deerpath closed in 1985, with Witness (which my Mom and Dad saw there) possibly being its last feature.
The Haravd Film Archive has coordinated film series screenings with the Brattle. So, the University’s film group (not the business office, as far as I know) has worked with them. The theater is a non-profit, and it sits in the heart of Harvard University. Students are among the main patrons. But yes, I think you’re right. So far there has been no report that the University has offered any fianancial assistance.
The Brattle has given to Harvard – its students and faculty.
Harvard, it appears, can save the Brattle. But will they?
For a world-class institution that professess to be giving (at least, that’s what Hollywood would like us to believe, seeing as how they’re so in love with the place) they’re looking pretty darn stingy right now.
Spent a lot of time at the Deerpath in the ‘70s and early '80s. Such a beutiful theater. It was mainly a second-run theater, with prices between $1.50 to $3.00. They played mainly family-oriented films. Not to may R-rated features. The played Rocky 1-3, Star Wars, Empire, E.T., and Raiders. And among the rarities I recall Posse, The Late Show, Silent Movie, and Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen.
It was closed and renovated in 1982. It re-opened as a first-run theater (with a $5.00 ticket price) in 1983 with Superman III. The remodeling included, as previously mentioned, airline seats. But but all of the seats were airline seats. There was a column of them in the center, four to each row (?), for maybe the rear half of the theater.
The theater had a terrific balcony. According to http://www.thecatlow.com, The Deerpath and the Catlow were somewhat similar in their architectural floorplans – the significant difference being the Catlow’s lack of a balcony. The Deerpath’s interior design motif was quite different and Iannelli was not involved with that design in any way. The theater closed its doors in the early 1980’s. It has since been converted into a small shopping mall.
My best recollection is The Deerpath closed in 1985, with Witness (which my Mom and Dad saw there) possibly being its last feature.