Cinema Studio
1931 Broadway,
New York,
NY
10023
1931 Broadway,
New York,
NY
10023
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Located on Broadway near Lincoln Center, this former single-screen theatre was twinned and continued showing first-run art house attractions. It was demolished when the Barnes and Noble Bookstore building was put up. It was once known as Studio 65.
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Gerald A. DeLuca
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Does anyone know when this theater was opened and when it closed? Thanks.
The Arcade opened in 1919 and closed as the Cinema Studio 1 & 2 in 1990.
This was a great neighborhood theatre. In the 70s and 80s when I lived on the UWS, I would attend films here. Among them were Fedora, and Please Remember My Name. That Barnes and Noble is now gone, replaced by a Century 21
The (former) Barnes & Noble was located at 1972 Broadway, between 66th and 67th Streets.
1931 Broadway would place this theater within Lincoln Center.
The exact address should be found in a city directory (or phone book).
Report of the closing: March 25, 1990
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/25/nyregion/cinema-studio-to-close-doors-after-30-years.htmlstore.
Operated by New Yorker Films since 1977. The land was owned by ABC, sold to Millennium Properties, which, of course, built the Sony-Loews-AMC multiplex one block north.
Obituary: http://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/08/movies/film-view-curtains-for-a-grand-screen.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
Hello- shortly before it closed didn’t this theater hold a festival of Hitchcock films that hadn’t been show theatrically for some time because of copyright issues? i remember two of films were VERTIGO and THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY.
Bigjoe59… there were five films in that copyright entanglement with the Hitchcock Estate: “Rope,” “Rear Window,” “The Man Who Knew Too Much” (1956 version), “The Trouble With Harry,” and “Vertigo.” Quite a significant collection of the Master’s work that was unavailable for as long as 36 years (in the case of the 1948 “Rope”) until 1984, when Universal finally acquired the rights. I remember a lot of ballyhoo surrounding the resurfacing of these films at the time.
Hello To Ed S.–
would you happen to know if the print of VERTIGO that was shown at the Hitchcock Festival was ever released even on vhs? the reason i ask is simple. the only home video verison i have watched is the vhs and subsequently dvd of the 1996 Harris/Katz restoration. so it would be interesting to see what the film looked and sounded like before it was restored.
That’s really stretching my memory muscles more than they can flex… But I would have to say that there probably was a VHS release after the theatrical runs were completed back in the mid ‘80’s. I saw very good prints of “Rear Window,” “The Man Who Knew Too Much” and “Vertigo” in theaters at the time, and I also caught cable TV broadcasts of “Rope” and “The Trouble with Harry” shortly thereafter. I recall that they looked to be in very good shape.
The restoration job on “Vertigo,” of course, was a revelation.
Loved this theatre. Such varied fare, I practically lived here in the mid-70s! Took my little sister to see a revival of “GI Blues” (she loved Elvis). I saw a Bunuel double bill (“Viridiana” and “Discreet Charm of the Bourgeosie”) as well as current films like “The Sailor Who Fell From Grace From the Sea.”