Carnegie Hall Cinema

i thought Steves brother passed away also …….he wrote the Pumkin Head movies…

LUST IN THE DUST (1985) played at the Embassy and New Yorker. The Carnegie Hall was playing very eclectic arthouse repertory at the time.

This was Cineplex Odeons best renovation by far…….every detail so beautiful……..Steve C. managed this theater like it was his own…

Al,

Thanks for the response. Actually, the September 1969 date makes sense to me because I was on leave from the Army prior to going to Vietnam. Still cannot visualize going to the 55th St Playhouse. Is it possible that Lonesome Cowboys played the Carnegie Hall Cinema at a later date?
Does anyone remember a movie called “Lust In the Dust” It was directed by Paul Bartel and starred Tab Hunter and Divine. Can anyone confirm if this film played here.

Elwood=“Does anyone know the wherabouts of the couple running the Bleecker Street Cinema and the Carnegie Hall Cinema in the mid seventies to the mid eighties (jacqueline… and syd….)
In fact syd re-opened the Carnegie Hall Cinema as a classics movie theater in 73 or 74 after its closing for a few year as a porn cinema!I think syd died in 85 and his wife continued running the Bleecker street for a while. I’d like to know more.”

Jacqueline Reynal and Sid Geffen. Sid died in a mysterious way, and much of the staff felt Jackie was responsible, but maybe because she was such an unpleasant person. She’d made some film “Hotel New York” loosely based on her NYC experiences…she’d supposedly edited for Renoir, and done some acting. One memorable review called her “a grade Z Rita Hayworth”. HNY was quite bad, the rumour went. We had cans and cans of that film stored all over the theatres, the “forever edit”…Anyway, after Sid died she got involved with a rich French doctor. She owner the theatres, but never actually ran them, at least not while I worked for them in the early-mid 80’s.

I was only in this theater three or four times, however my most memorable recollection was discovering the early Martin Scorsese film “Who’s That Knocking At My Door?” I may be mistaken but this was in either 1970 or 1971 (Does anyone know when it played there?). I have been a Scorsese admirer ever since. Also remember seeing my only Andy Warhol film, “Lonesome Cowboys” and “The Harrad Experiment”. I was spared having to sit through the entire film when technical difficulties in the projection room resulted in a refund when they could not continue running the film.

Does anyone know the wherabouts of the couple running the Bleecker Street Cinema and the Carnegie Hall Cinema in the mid seventies to the mid eighties (jacqueline… and syd….)
In fact syd re-opened the Carnegie Hall Cinema as a classics movie theater in 73 or 74 after its closing for a few year as a porn cinema!
I think syd died in 85 and his wife continued running the Bleecker street for a while. I’d like to know more.
Many thanks

This was a great little “underground” theatre in the 70’s. They always had retrospecitves like Laurel & Hardy. Sad that it’s closed

Around 1992 or 93 this place was being robbed frequently, sometimes twice a week. The NYPD set up an operation where they had several undercover officers in the lobby as customers and another in the managers office. Sure enough, the robbers showed up and this time fired at the undercover “manager” when he refused to open the safe – fire was returned, resulting in one perp assuming room temperature in the lobby and the other was chased down 56th Street and captured at 6th Ave.

I suppose that, for the sake of proper mapping, the address of this theatre should be listed as 881 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10019.

i saw ‘A Touch Of Class’ and others.

Hiroshi Inagaki’s Chushingura was kind of a big-deal offering here in early 1967. It’s a stunning 3½ hour wide-screen epic based on the famous “47 Ronin” story that all Japanese learn about. I saw it here in January, 1967, and went to four other films in Manhattan that day as well.