Nuart Theatre
11272 Santa Monica Boulevard,
Los Angeles,
CA
90025
11272 Santa Monica Boulevard,
Los Angeles,
CA
90025
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I just watched an episode of Starsky & Hutch from their first season called “Silence” and it features the NuArt quite heavily, from a good shot of the front as they arrive, shots in the alley behind the theater, and then a shootout inside which really shows off the whole house once the audience is evacuated and the house lights are turned on. Hulu.com has it (for free), although it’s pretty compressed.
As far as eating in that neighborhood, I always go to El Rebozo’s, across SM Blvd and up Sawtelle one block on the left. Simple Mexican fare, but good.
Should have gone to Subway across the street.
The lunch. The theater looks fine.
What the lunch or the theatre?
Here is a recent photo. By the way, I had lunch at Dolores yesterday and it was pretty dismal.
http://tinyurl.com/yzszkk3
Dinner and a movie. Dinner at the newly renovated and greatly improved “Delores' Resturant” on Santa Monica Blvd, just a block west of the Nuart. Plenty of food for your money at Delores' and dinner specials which include desert as well. Plenty of parking in city lots off of Santa Monica blvd. Then walk accross the street and catch a film at the Nuart. Convenient and affordable – especially if you catch one of the Nuart’s bargain matinees for $7 a show.
The show at the Rialto is at 8:30 PM May 8th 2009
Hey everybody, local South Pas kid and amateur filmmaker, R.D.Hall, will be premiering him Noir Horror/Gangster movie at the Rialto in South Pasadena on May 8th, 2009. The One-Sheet was created by another South Pas kid, local art legend, Jimi(not the tattoo artist)Martinez. Admission is free, as is the popcorn and refreshments. Whoa! Friday night at the movies!!! Lets all go support indie filmmaking…Rialto rocks!!!
Here is a 1983 view of the Nuart:
http://tinyurl.com/ctzbmt
The Nuart probably opened in 1930. Southwest Builder & Contractor’s issue of March 21, 1930, carried an item about the construction contracts for the theater. Motion Picture Herald of March 26, 1932, mentioned a management change at the Nuart Theatre in Sawtelle. In 1939, the house was already being remodeled and redecorated and getting a new marquee, according to an item in Boxoffice Magazine’s issue of August 5th that year.
I saw “Pink Flamingos” at the TLA in Philadelphia, around 1981. Waters had just written a book and was there to answer questions and sign autographs. A very personable guy.
I saw Pink Flamingoes at a midnight screening in 1978 with about 8 people in the audience . One of those 8 was John Waters, who spoke with us after the show. and answered all our questions. He went on to tell us about his plans for a main-stream movie based on an overweight pimply-faced teenager who loved to dance. A few years later, “Hairspray” was released.
I managed the Nuart for a few years in the late 70s and remember the great clientele. Patrons stood in long lines and squeezed in the last single seats left for their favorite movies. Changing movies daily was sometimes a challenge when the freight company shipped the movie late and the quality of the film wasn’t its best. The projectionist, Steve Oliver, would have to cut and splice the film together right before showing. Linda Rondstat stood in line with her then boyfriend, Jerry Brown. I cannot recall the movie they saw. Edie the Egg Lady, from Pink Flamingos, played in a band on stage. Her drummer was Gina Schock, soon to be a Go-Go. Edie, God rest her sole, was not cut out for singing, but it was a fun night. The director of Eraserhead, David Lynch, came in a few times to watch his film at midnight.
Heck’s Angels
That’s a lot of bicycles out front!
Here is a 1942 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/5yf5b4
Here is a 2002 photo from the LA Times site:
http://tinyurl.com/6nykex
I bet AMC didn’t have a hand in it, but that the production design staff just picked up cups at the closest movie theater.
And,as William, implies, “product placement” means compensation. AMC paying the TV show (and also compensating Landmark for using the Nuart). It is likely worth more to AMC because they are nationwide in more markets than Landmark. So, Justin, it isn’t dishonestly changing the affiliation, but merely inserting a commercial inside the show!
It’s the production company’s art department that dresses the set and the deals that the production company makes for product placement not CBS.
Tivo alert…on tonight’s new episode of The Big Bang Theory, the main guys go to this theater to see a revival of the Apes movies. The only difference is that the concessions are AMC brands, not Landmark!!! How shameful that CBS chose to make the Nuart as an AMC theater and not Landmark.
The Nu-Art showed “Birth of a Nation” in July 1970. I recall that the owner of the Silent Movie theater scheduled a showing a few years ago, but canceled due to community objection.
Eraserhead played ther for years i recall. I recall seeing The Elephant Man in Westwood Village then driving to The Nuart to see Eraserhead for the fifth time. It was a great movie night.
I saw a film in the 70s I’m quite sure at the Nuart but can’t remember director or name. Can you help me. The story was about a girl name beauty queen of a French town/village and a millionaire who fell in love with her. She wouldn’t move to NYC with him becuase she didn’t want to leave her father, etc…he finally decided the only way he could marry her was to move the village to NYC. So at the end you see this French village in NYC and I remember some older French men sitting on a bridge, Brooklyn?? and throwing peelings, avocado? which cause a traffic accident. Very whimsical and fun and I’ve run out of ideas to track it down. Please help!!!! Chihully
My mind.