Cinema Village
22 East 12th Street,
New York,
NY
10003
22 East 12th Street,
New York,
NY
10003
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This venerable art house has been around for decades and is virtually the last of the old Village independent cinemas that flourished during the 60s, 70s, and 80s.
After several tough years, the theater was expanded into three screens and has continued its tradition of showing independent, foreign, and classic films.
The Cinema Village evokes a different era when "independent" really meant it.
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Ross Melnick
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It is a nice marquee Woody.
2008 photo of the Village Cinema.
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This theatre can be seen in the movie,“How to loose a guy in 10 days”
That should be How to lose a guy in 10 days!!
I saw John Woo’s “BOILING POINT” there, I noticed a small guy walking down the asile, he turned and looked at me, it was Spike Lee.
“The Cinema Village opened on October 5, 1964 with Ingmar Bergman’s "All These Women”, not 1963 as previously stated."
I must correct this previous post I made as I have found some ads with a Village theatre playing subrun that pre-date October 1964 and must have been this theatre. The October date was most likely the introduction of a first-run arthouse policy
Re-launch ad;
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while this theater has been in the forefront of showing indie
films for almost 50 years they screwed up royally when they
did a modernizing/tri-plexing in 1999. the only rest room is
in the lower level and is simply to damn small for three
screens. for instance the men’s room has only one stall so
you’re stuck if there’s a long line. i should think when they
“renovated” the theater they should have said “hey we need a
larger men’s rest room”. this has got to be the smallest men's
room in any movie theater in NYC.
Seems like a common problem when older theaters are quickly and cheaply carved up into multiple screens. Exact problem exists for the Fresh Meadows Theater in Queens and the Fantasy Theater in Rockville Centre, Long Island. If you have to slip out from one of the upstairs cinemas to use the facilities in the middle of a flick, you need to do a sprint down to the lowest level (and back again) in each of those locations. I would always get back to my seat completely winded!
I hate asking questions on this site instead of contributing but I was hoping someone could shed some light on what the set-up was as a single screen venue? It’s currently has a lobby with box office/concession on street level, theater #1 up a half-flight of stairs, theater #2 up a full-flight of stairs (with “stadium seating”) and theater #3 along with the bathrooms downstairs.
I do like this theater but worry about it and the Quad (which was showing second-run Oscar bait that was at the multiplex this fall), but they do a great job for the NYU crowd, and keep their prices even lower than some suburban multiplexes (they’ve always had a student rate).