Art Cinema
255 Franklin Avenue,
Hartford,
CT
06114
255 Franklin Avenue,
Hartford,
CT
06114
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Whose website? The Art Cinema does not have one AFAIK.
Their website (which is work safe) features some nice interior shots of the theater. The digital projector is located right off of the upper/center balcony.
This web page about the Lyric Theatre says that its architect, Edward T. Wiley, also designed the Art Cinema.
Since this was in the same family as the Colonial does anyone know if it was a Lockwood & Gordon house?
The year given for this photo is 1986.
One of the venues for this year’s Hartford International Film Festival. I’ll provide a few notes on the theater after my film Artery screens there, this Saturday at 12:15PM (not to put in a shameless plug or anything).
what are there hours of opereation?
On my way back from Cinestudio last night I decided to do a bit of exploring and stumbled upon this theater. Needless to say, I was surprised when I entered the lobby to inquire about the program. Still, a very cool find in an interesting neighborhood.
This is the article from the Hartford Advocate mentioned above.
A few months ago The Hartford Advocate wrote an article on this theatre citing that its missleading from the outside- it looks like it could be an art house cinema. Then again instead of being R.A.W. (Real Art Ways- Hartford’s alternative movie theatre), I’m sure it’s just raw in a gross way.
When this was a legitimate art house in June of 1966, I made my way here from Providence to see Luchino Visconti’s very moody and doomed-to-be-unseen film SANDRA (a.k.a. OF A THOUSAND DELIGHTS, VAGHE STELLE DELL'ORSA) with the incomparable Claudia Cardinale and the comparable Jean Sorel. This murky yet strangely compelling Italian tale of implied brother-sister incest was oddly paired with the American drug-rehabilitation drama SYNANON.
The Art Theatre’s address is 255 Franklin Ave.