Royal Theatre
11523 Santa Monica Boulevard,
Los Angeles,
CA
90025
11523 Santa Monica Boulevard,
Los Angeles,
CA
90025
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Laemmle has their Home office on the second floor.
Are we certain that the photograph accompanying this listing is of the Santa Monica Boulevard Tivoli? I’m just trying to recall when that area was first developed. The building pictured is in a style characteristic of the late teens-early twenties, and I’m wondering if maybe it isn’t a picture of the -other- Tivoli Theatre, built in 1921, located on Central Avenue and later known as the Bill Robinson theatre. My memory of the Royal is terribly vague, but in the back of my mind I picture it having been in a one-story building, and its neighborhood having been of more recent vintage.
I’ve been unimpressed with the presentation at the Royal of late. Not only the sloppy projection has become an issue, the broken seats and a family of crickets, who chirp during the film is a major turn off.
The current seat capacity is 600 seats.
I first went to the Royal Theatre in the late 1980s during my first years in college to see Ayn Rand’s “We the Living.” This was the first art house I ever visited. I did not return to the Royal Theatre again until very recently to see “Beyond the Sea.” I have to say even though I appreciate a good single screen theater like the Royal Theatre, I do not find it to be one of the better theaters in Los Angeles. It has a rather dull lobby and exterior with an auditorium with some character but nothing superlative. Sadly however it maybe one of the better theaters still regularly showing films.
The Royal, due to its classy atmosphere and the quality of the films shown there, is considered by many to be the L.A. equivalent of NYC’s Paris Theatre.
Somehow this place is always showing French movies. It is very looooong and sloping inside. I think I’ve fallen asleep at more movies here than anywhere else – Howard’s End, for example.
This theatre opened as the Tivoli theatre in West Los Angeles. It is the flagship theatre for Laemmle theatres. The Royal had a restoration in the mid 90’s. It is one of the best places to see a art or classic film. This theatre is located about 2 ½ blocks west from Landmark’s Nuart theatre.