Cinema 1, 2 & 3 by Angelika
1001 3rd Avenue,
New York,
NY
10021
1001 3rd Avenue,
New York,
NY
10021
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Please update, 332 seats (This theatre had recliner seats installed in 2016)
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as I asked a while back before the movie theater lockdown
on March 16th was the escalator in this ever fixed. it had
been out of service since Oct. 2018.
also I’m not surprised about the Landmark 57 St. closing. the two times I went there were way more staff then patrons.
Online including City Cinemas website would indicate this theater is not permanently closed. The article likely meant 86th St.
The article about the Landmark 57 closing mentioned that City Cinemas had closed their East side theaters; did they mean these screens?
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before the mandated movie theater shutdown on Mon. March 16th
was the escalator ever fixed? it had been out of order since
Oct. 2018.
Please, update it was added Cinema 3rd Avenue on December 21, 1988. The third screen to up the first six rows of Cinema 1. After Cinema 3 closed, they renamed the theatre Cinema 1-2-3 The theatre was renovated in the fall of 2014 with new recliners with the capacity of Cinema 1 187, Cinema 2 97 and Cinema 3 48 seats. Cinema 1 shows 70MM.
When the theatre open in 1962, it was Cinema 1 and Cinema 2, separate box office and entrances, it was design you couldn’t switch screens. A New lobby was redone in the fall of 1988.
70mm usually refers to the actual film stock width shown by the theatre. A film shot in 35mm could be blown up for 70mm projection. The soundtrack strip on the 70mm film was also superior in quality. The Fresh Meadows multiplex, for example, has fairly small screens but the quality of a 70mm projection in the same complex was visibly superior in sight and sound to the 35mm screen, although not so different in size.
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while I am an avid moviegoer there is something I’m still confused by- what 70MM means. is it the aspect ratio of the film stock to shoot the film or the size of screen showing it? for instance how can the Cinema 1 show a film in the same way the Ziegfeld could?
“The Joker” is not an art movie like the opening attraction, but all movies were not art movies. The most popular movies from the start were movies like Dracula and Frankenstein. That said, this site isn’t for reviews of individual movies, and not at all for TV or general culture. We can be happy that this movie theater is not only still open, but will showcase The Joker in 70mm.
Mike (saps) And how. Look at the ever expanding trash TV.
From the opening attaction directed by Vittorio De Sica and Federico Fellini to yet another comic book movie, The Joker, how the culture has descended…
As their website says, The Joker which seems to have early word as excellent, opens in 70mm on October 4 here. So nobody is surprised, the aspect ratio is “flat” not ‘scope. https://www.citycinemas.com/cinemas123/showtimes-and-tickets/coming-soon
i wonder with the new joker trailer coming out on wed, if tickets will go on sale for this movie in 70mm. The film will premiere in Venice on Saturday and people in the business say that this movie will make around $60-90 million on opening weekend. The film is rated R so it might draw away young kids wanting to see a darker version of the famed villain.
ridethectrain, the movie’s title was “Boccaccio ‘70”, not “Three Stories of the Sexes”. That ad continues on the next page.
Please update, this theatre open on June 26, 1962 with the movie Three Stories Of Th Sexes!
I’ve just uploaded the grand opening ad and premiere feature
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have they fixed the escalator yet? they could have torn out the old one and put in a new one in a shorter period of time.
You can go onto the City Cinemas website & send in an email to them, asking them. Or, ask for the theater management next time you are there or telephone & ask.
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the escalator at this theater as been out of order since 2nd week of Oct.. I saw Tolkien at this theater a few weeks ago and it was still out of order. what the ****** is the problem?
Al, at the Paris page you compiled lists of films & dates until the late 1990’s. Might you please compile the lists of films & dates since there?
I also wish to note that despite a comment above, the City Cinemas 1,2, 3, has much to offer. Joker (filmed with 65mm digital cameras) in 70mm is listed as starting Oct 4. At another City Cinemas, the Village East, which shows in addition to new movies, many classics, some digital but also 35mm classics, a new movie Once Upon a Time in Hollywood in 70mm (blow up from 35mm) is listed as starting July 26. Follow City Cinemas on Facebook or elsewhere to read the many special events they have at their theaters.
Al, the Guardian article that I linked above indicates City Cinemas wished to continue to operate the Paris. To whatever extent new rent terms could be agreed upon or not, is not specified by any article. The Guardian article asserts the building’s long time owner is closing the Paris.
Thanks, Howard.
I wonder if City Cinemas alone is behind this or if someone else failed to make a deal. Perhaps, an impossible deal.
Al, Pathe hasn’t held the Paris lease since 1990. I specified successive operators in the Intro http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/307 In late August 2009, City Cinemas tookover as this article states https://variety.com/2009/scene/markets-festivals/n-y-arthouses-to-roll-with-city-cinemas-1118007786/
Didn’t Pathe still hold the lease?
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to RHETT52~ how is the Cinema ½/3 showing “the local crap” more than any other theater?