Carlton Cinema
20 Carlton Street,
Toronto,
ON
M5B 2H5
20 Carlton Street,
Toronto,
ON
M5B 2H5
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This art-house multiplex in the center of the city presented the most recent foreign and independent films to Toronto audiences.
It was closed on December 6, 2009. Re-opened as the Carlton Cinema on July 2, 2010.
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Gerald A. DeLuca
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Nope, they’re all there. Wasn’t that glorious!
A picture of the theater shortly before its closing: View link
There is a picture of this theatre’s opening day ad on Eric Veillette’s 32 Elvis Movies site here: http://www.32elvismovies.com/?p=647
The Carlton Cinemas is set to reopen in June 2010 by Magic Lantern Theatres. Here is the link:
www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/February2010/18/c2870.html
Great news! Can’t wait to see what it looks like when it re-opens. Can’t understand why they didn’t open a Rainbow Cinema in the closed Upper James 7 in Hamilton. Magic Lantern/Rainbow always seem to re-open former Cineplex Odeon theatres. That one would have been perfect for the people of Hamilton Mountain.
Great news indeed, hopefully they’ll continue the art house mix that Cineplex had – I only went once (and took the cinema tour pics on the eve of the 2008 TIFF, we saw Outsourced that night). I don’t know what impact Bell Lightbox will have aside from providing a permanent home for the Cinematheque Ontario – even though AMC and Scotiabank split films they certainly haven’t really made the best of over screening by playing more art pictures, which is sad since I’m now based in Buffalo and would dig an art movie day-cation in Toronto, but there’s not much to see that won’t come to Buffalo with the Carlton gone.
The Carlton cinemas will be re-opening on July 2nd and run by Magic Lantern Theatres. They have already included it on their website.
I visited the theater this afternoon – Magic Lantern refurbished much of it including installing new seats, carpeting and other changes including more seating the lobby area (removing Alan Smithee’s a bar that was there as Cineplex, however closed when I was there last), a new mural, and a new paint job. The place looks good – the screens are still small, but the theater is comfortable and far cheeper than their competitors ($9 adult price verses $13 elsewhere in town), hopefully it’s filling a niche because the programing is excellent.
It’s also worth noting it’s showing features day and date with many competitors including AMC Younge & Dundas, Scotibank, Varsity and even (currently) TIFF Bell Lightbox.
They have $5.00 Tuesday for the early performances!
Now if only they would bring back 25c popcorn.
The Carlton recently converted to digital projection… hurray! This gets rid of the following problems: pictures out of frame (microphones in frame), out of focus, poor sound reproduction, scratchy and, or dirty prints. These are some of the reasons I stopped going to this venue. A recent visit with perfect digital projection and sound was a real treat!