Cine Fine Arts
654 Ponce de Leon Avenue,
San Juan
00918
654 Ponce de Leon Avenue,
San Juan
00918
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Miramar Fine Arts will reopen next Thursday, Dec. 15. Can anyone take one or two pictures and post them here? Will appreciate it.
Fine Arts Miramar to reopen this Summer. Well, it is Summer already.
http://consumerplanet.blogspot.com/2011/02/fine-arts-cinema-to-reopen-this-summer.html
Just came back from San Juan, the Fine Arts is a shell, they even took the roof out to make it higher and accommodate stadium seating in the new auditoriums. It’s a major job and will probably take a while.
Andy Roura
Caribbean Cinemas closed the Fine Arts and is curremtly renovating it. It will have six screens and will be like the new Fina Arts Cafe in Hato Rey.
Sept. 12, 2008 post by ken, the link is about an Imax theater being built in San juan. I emailed Imax Corp. and they responded there were no plans for an Imax in SJ. Anyway, Imax would not compete with Fine Arts, it is a big screen format for certain films. lately used for special prints of mainstream movies including 3D versions. The Fine Arts building is owned by Caribbean Cinemas. It was bought by Caribbean’s president, Victor Carrady and 2 former VPs of Commonwealth Theaters. One of them passed away and don’t know if the estate is still a partner or sold the shares to Caribbean. I don’t know the whereabouts of the other partner. I think he retired to Florida.
Google gives this address:
654 Juan Ponce de León
San Juan 00918, Puerto Rico
787.721.4288
Website gives this address:
Ponce de Le�n Ave. #654 Pda. 11
Miramar, PR 00907
787-721-4288
Competition on the way in San Juan:
http://tinyurl.com/548ko4
The Oscar nominated “Kiss of the Spider Woman” starring William Hurt, Raul Julia, and Sonia Braga premiered at the Fine Arts in 1985 when it still had one screen.
The year the Miramar Theatre went mainstream I believe was either 1975 or 1976, according to the following lineup that I remember played there during the mid 70’s. “Cabaret,” “Young Frankenstein,” The Reincarnation of Peter Proud,“ "Barry Lyndon,” “The Adventures of Sherlocks Holmes' Smarter Brother,” Fellini’s “Amarcord,” etc. I’m not sure if “Emmanuelle” premiered here or at the Excelsior. I know it played at the Condado Cinema but I don’t think it premiered there. When the Miramar re opened as the Fine Arts with only one screen, Fellini’s “Ginger and Fred” played there, as well as Almodovar’s “High Heels,” “Radio Days,” “Blue Velvet,” “The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and her Lover,” and “Dangerous Liasons.” It added two more theatres. The first theatre is the largest one and it is the old Miramar Theatre intact. Its size was not altered to add the other two small screening rooms. When it was the Miramar, the steps went directly from the sidewalk up to the entrance. It had a long (burgundy, I believe) canopy. For the Fine Arts it was changed to the maze-like steps that are currently there. If you want to know how was the auditorium of the old Miramar Theatre, check out theatre 1 in Fine Arts. It’s all there.
I’ve heard there are differences between the Caribbean Cinemas people and the owner of the building and there’s now a big probability that the Fine Arts in Miramar will close down. Let’s hope they do reach an agreement.
Does anyone knows if the new Fine Arts will have a Digital Screen like Cine en Ballajá did?
Caribbean Cinemas isnt closing the Miramar Fine Arts. For them, that cinema its a little gold mine and have its own clients that always go there. They have been planning the renovation for a long time but since this is the only fine arts cinema, they cant close it for the renovation period. So they decide to make this new cinema, since they have to renovate the old one and second to have a ‘back-up’ cinema since plaza las americas is always full of clients (since the Cinevista closed its doors). Everyone told me that they will not close the Miramar Fine Arts…but who knows!
Caribbean Cinemas is opening a new Fine Arts Cinema in Hato Rey. It will feature 6 screens, stadium seating and will serve wine ect. The Fine Arts in Miramar will close and will be remodeled.
Let’s hope this is true since most of the time when theaters are closed down to be “remodeled” they are never re-opened.
The Fine Arts is famous for putting posters and showing trailers for movies they eventually never show. Anyway, I do hope thet show “The Passenger”
I am athrill to learn that Antonioni’s The Passenger will soon be playing at Cine Fine Arts; I think this movie is a superlative, spellbinding, transcendent, etc., must-see.
I was involved in the tripling of this cinema. The building was originally built as a radio studio. Cinema one still has the sound proofing baffles on the side walls and was sized to handle bands and orchestras. Cinema #2 was craved out of two smaller radio studios and Cinema #3 was originally the private screening cinema for Caribbean Cinemas who operate the Fine Arts in conjunction with a partner. There are future plans to add two more screens on the second floor.