CineArts 5 at Pleasant Hill
2314 Monument Boulevard,
Pleasant Hill,
CA
94523
2314 Monument Boulevard,
Pleasant Hill,
CA
94523
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Built in 1966 with a giant curved screen, this Cinerama theater has since been expanded to a five screen multiplex.
Although the original domed auditorium is still intact, the screen has been changed to a standard flat replacement. The CineArts is currently showing primarily art house films and is one of a dwindling number of domed movie houses in the country.
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Ross Melnick
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I was an auditor for Century Theatres and was always intrigued by the dome theatres. I had a bit of projection background so was also interested in the technical side of the older buildings. I don’t know if the lense is still on site, I would assume that it is not. I know that the D-150 automation panel is still mounted on the wall at this location, as well as some of the other older dome locations.
Wow. Was at the CCC Jewish festival. We have got to save this place.
Is “@” really part of the name, or was someone just too lazy to write “at?”
Advertised on its website as CineArts @ Pleasant Hill
Could be just internet shorthand. Do they use @ in the building’s signs and in advertising?
The name should be CinéArts 5 at Pleasant Hill. The name on the building only reads “CinéArts”.
Under Century, all the CineArts were @ somewhere. The original CineArts were:
CineArts @ Evanston (Evanston, IL)
CineArts @ Sequoia (Mill Valley, CA)
CineArts @ Palo Alto Square (Palo Alto, CA)
CineArts @ Empire (San Francisco, CA)
CineArts @ Pleasant Hill (Pleasant Hill, CA)
CineArts @ Santana Row (San Jose, CA)
CineArts @ Marin (Sausalito, CA)
Eventually they started calling whatever art film was playing at any theatre the “CineArts @ [Theatre Name]” much like AMC has AMC Select and Regal has Regal Arts.
Here is a June 2004 photo from Michael Moore’s website:
http://tinyurl.com/7qhov7
Visiting friends over the weekend of March 19, 2010 and overheard them making plans for “dropping the teenagers off at CineArts.” Went by the theatre later on and they appear to be doing just fine. Long may it be so! In architecturally nondescript Concord, even this relatively later (though I must say very nice) theatre building provides the community landscape with some interest!
I’ve posted information and photos from a recent visit here.