United Artists 64th & Second

Regal’s website has “Stadium” in the theater’s title. How did stadium seating change the auditoriums' looks, screen sizes, etc?

I telephoned today and the staffer replied that each of the 3 auditoriums has about 400 seats. Anybody been recently in one of the 2 original auditoriums? How’s the digital projection? surround sound? screen size?

Another Columbia 1 and 2 Theatres.Great.

Is this theatre still open?

Opened as the Columbia 1 & 2 in October 1971.

Became the Gemini 1 & 2 in July 1978.

Became the Gemini 1, 2 & 3 in June 1996.

Became the 64th & 2nd 1, 2 & 3 in October 1996.

Renewing link.

Here is a list of movies that were shown at the 64TH & 2ND this year so far.

1/18/08- 27 Dresses
1/18/08- Mad Money
2/1/08- The Eye
2/22/08- Charlie Bartlett
2/29/08- The Other Boleyn Girl
2/29/08- Penelope
3/7/08- 10,000 B.C.
3/14/08- Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears A Who
3/28/08- 21
4/4/08- Nim’s Island
4/11/08- Street Kings
5/2/08- Made of Honor
5/9/08- What Happens in Vegas
5/16/08- Son of Rambow
6/6/08- You Don’t Mess with the Zohan
6/13/08- The Happening
6/20/08- Get Smart
7/2/08- Hancock (Opening)

The Pittsburgh one definitely started late on a Wednesday or a Thursday evening. And ours was midnight, too, now that I think it through because I remember adding up all the screening times in advance because I doubted that they could all be finished by 8 p.m. Fortunately the breaks between them were very brief if not nonexistent. The theater was a 793-seater back then (later to be chopped up). I was pleasantly surprised that maybe 100-140 people were there at the start and most stayed for the 20 hours. “The Odessa File” screening that followed around 9 p.m. drew several hundred.
By the way, Al, I’m enjoying finding your contributions to many of the NYC theater blogs. You and Warren and Dave-Bronx have made many invaluable contributions in terms of information and observations. – Ed Blank

Thank you very much, Al. It’s unlikely I would have thought of “The Professionals.” I wonder how many cities had that festival and if we all had it the same night. I’ve gotta think there were only one or two usable prints of most of those films and that they moved around daily for a couple of weeks. I do remember they were shown in precise chronological sequence in Pittsburgh and that I helplessly dozed during the second and third ones, “Mr. Deeds” and “Mr. Smith.” Never imagined that a few years later I’d be able to buy all of them, and so many more, on VHS. – Ed Blank

SethLewis mentioned above, in 2004, that the Columbia I & II hosted a retrospective of Columbia classics to celebrate the studio’s 50th anniversary in 1974. We had that all-night show in Pittsburgh, too, at Squirrel Hill Theater. It consisted of 10 outstanding Columbia films, shown from oldest to newest. Do you New Yorkers have the same 10? Can you identify them, using my partial list as a starting point: From memory, they were “It Happened One Night,” “Mr. Deeds Goes to Town,” “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” “His Girl Friday” (not positive about that one), “From Here to Eternity,” “On the Waterfront,” “Bridge on the River Kwai” and “Funny Girl” (I think). And I’m missing at least one. (I don’t think “Oliver” or “Gilda” were part of it, but I’m tempted to say “Born Yesterday” or “A Man for All Seasons” were in there.) The program started at either 8 p.m. or midnight, and the 10th film ended at about 7 p.m. the next evening. The theater emptied for a two-hour (or less) dinner break. We all headed for nearby eateries and then returned for the 11th feature, which was a premiere of Columbia’s latest, “The Odessa File.” Does this marathon sound familiar to Seth and others who might have caught it in Manhattan? – Ed Blank

I also forgot to mention that the movies ACROSS THE UNIVERSE, SILK and TRADE were also shown at the UA 64TH & 2ND in September of 2007.

Here is my complete list of the 1st-run movies that were shown at the UA 64TH & 2ND from 2002 to 2007

1/11/02- Black Hawk Down
2/1/02- Slackers
2/8/02- Collateral Damage
2/15/02- Crossroads
3/15/02- Ice Age
3/15/02- Resident Evil
3/15/02- Showtime
3/29/02- Panic Room
April 2002- The Cat’s Meow
5/3/02- Spider-Man
5/16/02- Star Wars: Episode II-Attack of the Clones
6/14/02- Scooby-Doo
7/3/02- Men In Black II
7/3/02- The Powerpuff Girls Movie
7/17/02- Eight Legged Freaks
7/19/02- Stuart Little 2
8/7/02- Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
8/16/02- The Adventures of Pluto Nash
8/23/02- Little Secrets
9/6/02- City by the Sea
9/13/02- Stealing Harvard
9/20/02- Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever
9/20/02- Trapped
10/11/02- The Rules of Attraction
10/18/02- Abandon
10/25/02- Jackass the Movie
10/25/02- Punch-Drunk Love
11/1/02- I Spy
11/27/02- Adam Sandler’s Eight Crazy Nights
11/27/02- Extreme Ops
12/6/02- Analyze That
12/18/02- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
1/10/03- Adaptation
1/17/03- National Security
2/7/03- Deliver Us From Eva
2/7/03- How to Lose A Guy In 10 Days
3/7/03- Tears of the Sun
3/21/03- Boat Trip
3/28/03- Miyazaki’s Spirited Away
4/4/03- A Man Apart
4/4/03- Phone Booth
4/11/03- Anger Management
4/18/03- Malibu’s Most Wanted
4/25/03- Identity
5/9/03- Daddy Day Care
5/15/03- The Matrix Reloaded
6/20/03- From Justin to Kelly
6/27/03- Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle
7/11/03- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
7/18/03- Bad Boys II
8/8/03- S.W.A.T.
8/15/03- Grind
8/22/03- The Medallion
9/5/03- The Order
9/12/03- Once Upon A Time In Mexico
9/19/03- The Fighting Temptations
9/19/03- Secondhand Lions
10/17/03- Mystic River
10/17/03- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
11/14/03- Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
12/5/03- The Last Samurai
12/12/03- Something’s Gotta Give
12/25/03- Cheaper by the Dozen
1/30/04- The Perfect Score
2/13/04- 50 First Dates
2/27/04- Broken Lizard’s Club Dread
3/12/04- Spartan
3/26/04- Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
4/2/04- Hellboy
4/9/04- The Girl Next Door
4/16/04- The Punisher
4/23/04- Man on Fire
5/14/04- Troy
5/28/04- Baadasssss!
6/11/04- Garfield: The Movie
6/11/04- Saved!
6/30/04- Spider-Man 2
7/16/04- I, Robot
8/6/04- Little Black Book
8/13/04- Yu-Gi-Oh: The Movie
8/20/04- Exorcist: The Beginning
8/27/04- Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
9/3/04- Paparazzi
9/17/04- Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
9/24/04- The Forgotten
10/6/04- Taxi
10/22/04- The Grudge
10/29/04- Saw
11/10/04- The Polar Express
11/12/04- After the Sunset
11/19/04- The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
12/3/04- Closer
12/10/04- Ocean’s Twelve
12/17/04- Spanglish
1/14/05- Racing Stripes
1/19/05- Assault on Precinct 13
1/28/05- Hide and Seek
2/11/05- Hitch
2/18/05- Because of Winn-Dixie
2/18/05- Constantine
3/11/05- Hostage
3/24/05- Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
4/8/05- Fever Pitch
4/22/05- King’s Ransom
4/29/05- XXX: State of the Union
5/6/05- Kingdom of Heaven
5/13/05- Unleashed
6/3/05- The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
6/10/05- High Tension
6/10/05- Mr & Mrs Smith
6/24/05- Bewitched
7/1/05- Rebound
7/15/05- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
7/22/05- Bad News Bears
7/29/05- Sky High
8/5/05- The Dukes of Hazzard
8/12/05- Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
8/17/05- Supercross: The Movie
8/26/05- The Cave
9/2/05- A Sound of Thunder
9/9/03- The Exorcism of Emily Rose
9/9/03- The Man
9/23/05- Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride
9/30/05- Into the Blue
10/7/05- In Her Shoes
10/14/05- Domino
10/21/05- North Country
10/28/05- The Legend of Zorro
11/11/05- Zathura
11/18/05- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
11/18/05- Walk the Line
12/16/05- Memoirs of a Geisha
12/21/05- Cheaper by the Dozen 2
12/21/05- Fun with Dick and Jane
1/13/06- Tristan & Isolde
1/27/06- Big Momma’s House 2
2/10/06- The Pink Panther
3/3/06- 16 Blocks
3/17/06- V for Vendetta
3/31/06- Basic Instinct 2
4/7/06- The Benchwarmers
4/21/06- The Sentinel
4/21/06- Silent Hill
4/28/06- RV
5/12/06- Poseidon
5/19/06- The Da Vinci Code
6/6/06- The Omen
6/16/06- The Lake House
7/14/06- Little Man
7/21/06- Monster House
7/21/06- My Super Ex-Girlfriend
7/28/06- The Ant Bully
8/4/06- Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
8/11/06- Zoom
8/18/06- The Illusionist
8/25/06- Beerfest
9/8/06- Hollywoodland
9/22/06- All the King’s Men
9/29/06- Open Season
10/13/06- The Grudge 2
10/20/06- Flicka
10/20/06- Marie Antoinette
11/3/06- Borat
11/17/06- Casino Royale
11/22/06- Deck the Halls
12/8/06- The Holiday
12/22/06- Night at the Museum
12/22/06- We Are Marshall
1/12/07- Pan’s Labyrinth
1/26/07- Catch and Release
1/26/07- Epic Movie
2/9/07- Hannibal Rising
2/14/07- Music and Lyrics
2/16/07- Ghost Rider
2/23/07- Amazing Grace
3/9/07- 300
3/16/07- Premonition
3/23/07- The Hills Have Eyes 2
4/6/07- Grindhouse
4/13/07- Pathfinder
4/20/07- Vacancy
5/4/07- Spider-Man 3
5/11/07- 28 Weeks Later
5/18/07- The Wendell Baker Story
6/8/07- Surf’s Up
6/8/07- Once
6/15/07- Nancy Drew
6/22/07- 1408
6/27/07- Live Free or Die Hard
7/11/07- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
7/27/07- No Reservations
8/3/07- El Cantante
8/10/07- Rush Hour 3
8/17/07- Superbad
8/24/07- September Dawn
8/29/07- Balls of Fury
8/31/07- Death Sentence
9/28/07- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
10/12/07- Michael Clayton
10/12/07- We Own the Night
10/19/07- 30 Days of Night
11/2/07- Martian Child
11/9/07- Fred Claus
11/16/07- Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium
12/7/07- Margot at the Wedding
12/14/07- Alvin and the Chipmunks
12/21/07- P.S. I Love You
12/21/07- Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

After changing its name from COLUMBIA I & II to GEMINI TWIN to 64TH & 2ND, this theater has been standing strong since 1972.

Here is a list of my favorite movies that were shown at the UA 64TH & 2ND(aka GEMINI TWIN) and I have these movies on DVD and VHS

1) Punch-Drunk Love
2) Analyze That
3) Men In Black
4) Bewitched
5) America’s Sweethearts
6) Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
7) Twister
8) I, Robot
9) Memoirs of a Geisha
10) North Country
11) Spider-Man 2
12) Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
13) Freddy Got Fingered
14) Fun with Dick and Jane
15) Epic Movie
16) My Super Ex-Girlfriend
17) RV
18) The Lake House
19) Hide and Seek
20) Guess Who
21) Anger Management
22) Jumanji
23) Adam Sandler’s Eight Crazy Nights
24) Mr & Mrs Smith
25) Showtime
26) Ringmaster
27) High School High
28) Jerry Maguire
29) Night at the Museum
30) Spider-Man 3
31) Dennis the Menace
32) Look Who’s Talking

This is one of my favorite theatres in NYC