Angelika 57
225 West 57th Street,
New York,
NY
10019
225 West 57th Street,
New York,
NY
10019
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Located on 57th Street near Broadway, this theatre was built as a single screen art house in 1961, with seating on the main floor and balcony, it opened as the Lincoln Art Theatre. It had various names and programming policies at various times, including the Biograph and the Bombay Cinema. It ceased operation as a theatre in 1997, then having 556 seats.
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Thanks, Joe. By the way, you rabble still have to pay for access to NYT articles published prior to 1981.
A very hairy lady was the subject of Marco Ferreri’s The Ape Woman, shown here in 1964.
I was delighted when the ubiquitous Frank Rowley began programming this theater with classics and disheartened when his era ended here, as it had at the Regency. What a loss!
I’ve been doing some research on the revival houses in New York City and remember this one’s opening weekend well. The repertory programming under Frank Rowley’s direction begain on February 19, 1988 and continued until Cinemaplex Odeon pulled the plug on September 21, 1991. I remember people importuning me to sign petitions on the sidewalk after the theater closed. The era of the private art house was coming to an end. Rowley resurfaced in 1993 when he attempted to turn the Gramercy Theater on 23rd Street into a revival house, but that lasted less than a year.
In any event, I remember being here on the opening weekend. The Biograph kicked things off by showing 10 films with a “New York City” theme on Friday and Saturday and then on Sunday they started running a 34-film Myrna Loy/William Powell retrospective. I remember that because I was there Sunday night, with Myrna Loy in the house as a special guest, when THE THIN MAN screened.
I vaguely remember being here at the end too, but can’t remember which films played the last weekend. My research will continue.
I’d love to see some schedules for this place. How I wish I had saved them!
I believe the Biograph was closed for a couple of years before Joe Saleh ran the place as the Angelika 57 until it closed for good and became a very pricey supermarket.
The map link above goes to Brooklyn.
That’s funny. “near Broadway” should be removed from the address.
Renewing link.
New Carnegie needs to be added as an aka name and the map link now goes to Queens.
The opening ad as the Lincoln Art;
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The only memory I have of this theater is when i was 18 and it was a porno theater and me being a dumb nieve teenage got pickpocketed by the guy sitting next to me.