Bill Cosford Cinema

1111 Memorial Drive,
Coral Gables, FL 33146

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sporridge
sporridge on October 11, 2011 at 9:24 pm

Since the time I wrote that “Sole survivor among the once-numerous single-screen art cinemas…” comment, a new one-screen art cinema has arrived in Coral Gables: http://www.gablescinema.com/. Other newly minted single-screens have also opened in Wynwood (O Cinema, http://www.o-cinema.org/) and Miami Beach (Miami Beach Cinematheque, http://www.mbcinema.com/).

AlAlvarez
AlAlvarez on October 11, 2011 at 8:45 pm

Thanks sporridge.

I was surprised to see it missing from the Herald since they credit Bill Cosford for helping them serve the community on their website, hence the name change.

sporridge
sporridge on October 11, 2011 at 8:03 pm

Al, I attended several times in the early 90s: I remember “Akira” and “Vampires in Havana” as playing there in 1990, and I attended one of those roadshow animation festivals around the same time. Think the Beaumont was only open over the weekends by then. If they were excluded from The Herald’s movie time clock, I’m guessing New Times was my source for showtimes.

AlAlvarez
AlAlvarez on October 11, 2011 at 7:02 pm

Does anyone know if it was open to the public from 1987 to 1994 when it was missing from the Miami Herald movie time clock?

sporridge
sporridge on August 9, 2009 at 12:00 pm

Years later, the animated Cuban feature “Vampires in Havana” went off without a hitch when it played the Beaumont (to a small audience when I was there), probably around 1990. (Less consequential than “Memories of Underdevelopment,” of course.)

AlAlvarez
AlAlvarez on August 9, 2009 at 9:15 am

I was here in 1981 for a Miami Q & A with Ralph Bakshi for the animated “AMERICAN POP”. When students started questioning him about his controversial older film “COONSKIN” instead, Balkshi had a fit and refused to answer any more questions.

The Beaumont was famously faced with an exploding projector when it tried to screen the Cuban made “MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT” sometime in the late sixties, after local theatre chains were intimidated into not showing the now classic film.