Uptown Theater
2962 Hennepin Avenue,
Minneapolis,
MN
55408
2962 Hennepin Avenue,
Minneapolis,
MN
55408
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A slideshow showing the recent renovations is here.
The Uptown will reopen on September 14, 2012; it now features all-digital projection and a larger screen. Seating has been reduced to 350, and new carpeting has been laid. The balcony was retained with love seats installed. The theater now serves alcohol. An article about the renovations can be read here.
The Uptown is closing at the end of January, 2012 for renovation. When it reopens, the balcony will not really be a balcony anymore. Go now while you still can.
2009 nightphoto of the Uptown Theatre.
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2009 photos of the Uptown Theatre.
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2007 photo of the Uptown Theatre.
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Another 2009 photo is here.
This is a 2009 night photo.
1982 Night photo of the Uptown Theatre.
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1982 photo of the Uptown Theatre.
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Another 1982 photo of the Uptown Theatre.
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Another 1982 photo of the Uptown Theatre.
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Function should be Movies-Foreign and Independent.
Here is a 1938 photo:
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Here is another photo, circa 1980:
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This is a recent close-up view.
Here is another photo of the Uptown Theater.
A Marr & Colton theater organ size 2/7 was installed in the Lagoon Theater in 1927.
There has been a recent effort (during the month of December 2006) to re-light the marquee of this wonderful cinema. The underside and front surfaces of the lower section looks sooo much better and the whole street seems brighter. This is a major improvement and I thank the Landmark people for making this beginning. More is to be done but this is very gratifying and beautiful. Now, to restore the Rainbow Cafe down a few doors down the block. <chuckle>
I wish the current owners would put in an effort to restore the lights and street appearance of the Uptown. They did such a great job on the Edina Theater. It sometimes seems as if it is a kind of neglect that precedes closing and demolition. I think that they should even restore the beacon that once topped the mast. The anti “light polution' crowd would go nuts I am sure. There seems to have been a minor attempt to light some of the bulbs recently. We passed it by assuming it was closed. Darkness comes on fast here in the Great White North and we need lights to welcome us in. The same people who admire the French and Paris sometimes hate lights in their own neighborhood and, I thought that some radical element may have burrowed in to influence the run down look the Uptown was beginning to take on.
So many dates with my wife ended up there. She nearly papered a closet with the wonderful weekly handbills of the wide ranging film program there. I especially loved the Italian fims there…from “Bread and Chocolate” to “Salo” to “Down and Dirty” to all of those Samurai Nights… Mifune and Kurosawa every night.. fun. This place along with the Suburban World down the block was the art house Vatican of Minneapolis. I saw all of the Astaire/Rogers films there…. a wonderful mix. The Rainbow cafe was always nearly next door for Onion Rings after 9:00 PM. You NEVER went down the block withouth reaching into the wooden box to pull out the playbill showing the dozens of films to be shown that month…marking the ones you intended to see. I miss that. ahhhh senile rapture.
This is a recent 2006 photo of the Uptown Theater.
The Uptown Theater seats 900, not 800. Also, it might be worth mentioning that we are the only movie theater left in the state of Minnesota that has a balcony. Yours Truly, an Uptown Theater employee.
I’m thrilled to hear that the Uptown is still in business. I went there often during grad school in the early 1980s to see foreign films as well as old classics that somehow look better on the big screen than on your tv at home.
This is another photo of the Uptown Theater.
From the “Twin Cities” file, I would assume that this is a photo of the Minneapolis Uptown:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/amyart/35745980/
Here is link to a photo and short history of the Uptown Theatre.
http://www.mnfilm.org/fun/mn_uptown.asp
During my college years (1979-1983) it showed double features of classic, foreign and cult movies. Quite a fun place for a college crowd.
Long Live
ROCKY HORROR!!