United Artists 64th & 2nd Avenue
1210 2nd Avenue,
New York,
NY
10021
1210 2nd Avenue,
New York,
NY
10021
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There are small ads in the NYT (1980) for a Mini Cinema located at 1234 Second Avenue running classic films. Does anyone remember that theatre?
I also forgot to mention that the movies ACROSS THE UNIVERSE, SILK and TRADE were also shown at the UA 64TH & 2ND in September of 2007.
I also forgot to mention that the Maggie Gyllenhaal/James Spader romantic drama SECRETARY was also shown at the UA 64TH & 2ND in the Fall of 2002
Here is my complete list of the 1st-run movies that were shown at the UA 64TH & 2ND from 2002 to 2007
1/11/02- Black Hawk Down
2/1/02- Slackers
2/8/02- Collateral Damage
2/15/02- Crossroads
3/15/02- Ice Age
3/15/02- Resident Evil
3/15/02- Showtime
3/29/02- Panic Room
April 2002- The Cat’s Meow
5/3/02- Spider-Man
5/16/02- Star Wars: Episode II-Attack of the Clones
6/14/02- Scooby-Doo
7/3/02- Men In Black II
7/3/02- The Powerpuff Girls Movie
7/17/02- Eight Legged Freaks
7/19/02- Stuart Little 2
8/7/02- Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
8/16/02- The Adventures of Pluto Nash
8/23/02- Little Secrets
9/6/02- City by the Sea
9/13/02- Stealing Harvard
9/20/02- Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever
9/20/02- Trapped
10/11/02- The Rules of Attraction
10/18/02- Abandon
10/25/02- Jackass the Movie
10/25/02- Punch-Drunk Love
11/1/02- I Spy
11/27/02- Adam Sandler’s Eight Crazy Nights
11/27/02- Extreme Ops
12/6/02- Analyze That
12/18/02- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
1/10/03- Adaptation
1/17/03- National Security
2/7/03- Deliver Us From Eva
2/7/03- How to Lose A Guy In 10 Days
3/7/03- Tears of the Sun
3/21/03- Boat Trip
3/28/03- Miyazaki’s Spirited Away
4/4/03- A Man Apart
4/4/03- Phone Booth
4/11/03- Anger Management
4/18/03- Malibu’s Most Wanted
4/25/03- Identity
5/9/03- Daddy Day Care
5/15/03- The Matrix Reloaded
6/20/03- From Justin to Kelly
6/27/03- Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle
7/11/03- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
7/18/03- Bad Boys II
8/8/03- S.W.A.T.
8/15/03- Grind
8/22/03- The Medallion
9/5/03- The Order
9/12/03- Once Upon A Time In Mexico
9/19/03- The Fighting Temptations
9/19/03- Secondhand Lions
10/17/03- Mystic River
10/17/03- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
11/14/03- Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
12/5/03- The Last Samurai
12/12/03- Something’s Gotta Give
12/25/03- Cheaper by the Dozen
1/30/04- The Perfect Score
2/13/04- 50 First Dates
2/27/04- Broken Lizard’s Club Dread
3/12/04- Spartan
3/26/04- Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
4/2/04- Hellboy
4/9/04- The Girl Next Door
4/16/04- The Punisher
4/23/04- Man on Fire
5/14/04- Troy
5/28/04- Baadasssss!
6/11/04- Garfield: The Movie
6/11/04- Saved!
6/30/04- Spider-Man 2
7/16/04- I, Robot
8/6/04- Little Black Book
8/13/04- Yu-Gi-Oh: The Movie
8/20/04- Exorcist: The Beginning
8/27/04- Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
9/3/04- Paparazzi
9/17/04- Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
9/24/04- The Forgotten
10/6/04- Taxi
10/22/04- The Grudge
10/29/04- Saw
11/10/04- The Polar Express
11/12/04- After the Sunset
11/19/04- The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
12/3/04- Closer
12/10/04- Ocean’s Twelve
12/17/04- Spanglish
1/14/05- Racing Stripes
1/19/05- Assault on Precinct 13
1/28/05- Hide and Seek
2/11/05- Hitch
2/18/05- Because of Winn-Dixie
2/18/05- Constantine
3/11/05- Hostage
3/24/05- Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
4/8/05- Fever Pitch
4/22/05- King’s Ransom
4/29/05- XXX: State of the Union
5/6/05- Kingdom of Heaven
5/13/05- Unleashed
6/3/05- The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
6/10/05- High Tension
6/10/05- Mr & Mrs Smith
6/24/05- Bewitched
7/1/05- Rebound
7/15/05- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
7/22/05- Bad News Bears
7/29/05- Sky High
8/5/05- The Dukes of Hazzard
8/12/05- Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
8/17/05- Supercross: The Movie
8/26/05- The Cave
9/2/05- A Sound of Thunder
9/9/03- The Exorcism of Emily Rose
9/9/03- The Man
9/23/05- Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride
9/30/05- Into the Blue
10/7/05- In Her Shoes
10/14/05- Domino
10/21/05- North Country
10/28/05- The Legend of Zorro
11/11/05- Zathura
11/18/05- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
11/18/05- Walk the Line
12/16/05- Memoirs of a Geisha
12/21/05- Cheaper by the Dozen 2
12/21/05- Fun with Dick and Jane
1/13/06- Tristan & Isolde
1/27/06- Big Momma’s House 2
2/10/06- The Pink Panther
3/3/06- 16 Blocks
3/17/06- V for Vendetta
3/31/06- Basic Instinct 2
4/7/06- The Benchwarmers
4/21/06- The Sentinel
4/21/06- Silent Hill
4/28/06- RV
5/12/06- Poseidon
5/19/06- The Da Vinci Code
6/6/06- The Omen
6/16/06- The Lake House
7/14/06- Little Man
7/21/06- Monster House
7/21/06- My Super Ex-Girlfriend
7/28/06- The Ant Bully
8/4/06- Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
8/11/06- Zoom
8/18/06- The Illusionist
8/25/06- Beerfest
9/8/06- Hollywoodland
9/22/06- All the King’s Men
9/29/06- Open Season
10/13/06- The Grudge 2
10/20/06- Flicka
10/20/06- Marie Antoinette
11/3/06- Borat
11/17/06- Casino Royale
11/22/06- Deck the Halls
12/8/06- The Holiday
12/22/06- Night at the Museum
12/22/06- We Are Marshall
1/12/07- Pan’s Labyrinth
1/26/07- Catch and Release
1/26/07- Epic Movie
2/9/07- Hannibal Rising
2/14/07- Music and Lyrics
2/16/07- Ghost Rider
2/23/07- Amazing Grace
3/9/07- 300
3/16/07- Premonition
3/23/07- The Hills Have Eyes 2
4/6/07- Grindhouse
4/13/07- Pathfinder
4/20/07- Vacancy
5/4/07- Spider-Man 3
5/11/07- 28 Weeks Later
5/18/07- The Wendell Baker Story
6/8/07- Surf’s Up
6/8/07- Once
6/15/07- Nancy Drew
6/22/07- 1408
6/27/07- Live Free or Die Hard
7/11/07- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
7/27/07- No Reservations
8/3/07- El Cantante
8/10/07- Rush Hour 3
8/17/07- Superbad
8/24/07- September Dawn
8/29/07- Balls of Fury
8/31/07- Death Sentence
9/28/07- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
10/12/07- Michael Clayton
10/12/07- We Own the Night
10/19/07- 30 Days of Night
11/2/07- Martian Child
11/9/07- Fred Claus
11/16/07- Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium
12/7/07- Margot at the Wedding
12/14/07- Alvin and the Chipmunks
12/21/07- P.S. I Love You
12/21/07- Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
After changing its name from COLUMBIA I & II to GEMINI TWIN to 64TH & 2ND, this theater has been standing strong since 1972.
I forget to mention that WE ARE MARSHALL is another favorite of mine and was shown at the UA 64TH & 2ND on December 22. 2006
Here is a list of my favorite movies that were shown at the UA 64TH & 2ND(aka GEMINI TWIN) and I have these movies on DVD and VHS
1) Punch-Drunk Love
2) Analyze That
3) Men In Black
4) Bewitched
5) America’s Sweethearts
6) Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
7) Twister
8) I, Robot
9) Memoirs of a Geisha
10) North Country
11) Spider-Man 2
12) Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
13) Freddy Got Fingered
14) Fun with Dick and Jane
15) Epic Movie
16) My Super Ex-Girlfriend
17) RV
18) The Lake House
19) Hide and Seek
20) Guess Who
21) Anger Management
22) Jumanji
23) Adam Sandler’s Eight Crazy Nights
24) Mr & Mrs Smith
25) Showtime
26) Ringmaster
27) High School High
28) Jerry Maguire
29) Night at the Museum
30) Spider-Man 3
31) Dennis the Menace
32) Look Who’s Talking
This is one of my favorite theatres in NYC
I saw the 1998 re-release of GONE WITH THE WIND there.
Saw “ONCE” there this past weekend. Uncomfortable seats and it looks like a maze to walk throgh. I am sure this place will close soon. Its now a REGAL Cinema.At least a half hour of ads and previews!
Was the screen curved or flat?
“Last Picture Show"
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Why the Columbia I & II not a previous name here?
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Just saw “Harry Potter” here…thinking back, I believe the last movie I saw here was that Schwarzenegger flick about the colony on Mars, back in the early 90s. Since the Beekman’s closing, I figure Is should go to more movies in theatres before the theatres vanish, so I took in Harry Potter at this one. It was playing in the upstairs theatre, which was quite clean and comfortable. There are colorful drapes on the walls, which under the drapes are plain ugly cinderblock, a little of which was visible. Some of the chairs have graffiti carved or burned into the fabric, but not many. I got a medium beverage and it was HUGE, I had forgotten how large the servings are in theatres. The nachos and cheese were deelish. Unfortunately the lobby and concession areas are very small and uninteresting. I did not see the newest auditorium that made this into a triplex.
Saw “Nadine” here and lots of other movies. I remember the small lobby and the downstairs theatre clearly from the 70s and 80s. Pretty sure I saw “Witness” here. I have not returned since it was called the “Gemini Twin,” and for a while I thought it had been demolished when that new luxury tower was built on top of it. I was glad to find out it is still there.
When it was the Gemini I visited this place once in October 1979 to see the then oh-so-popular Laura Antonelli baring all she had in the Italian film “The Divine Nymph,” a rather poor film apart from the baring.
They also went the cheapo route with no curtains
This theatre was triplexed by real-estate development, actually. The third theatre was added when a luxury condo tower went up at the corner. The two original theatres are still there, and a small hallway between the theatre and the new tower gives moviegoers access to the third theatre, which has its own, but apparently never open, concession stand.
The 64th & 2nd was triplexed sometime in the mid-‘90s.
Wow your right I totally forgot this was The Columbia 1 & 2. I actually liked that old marquee better, there was more of an east side classiness to it. The new one is too gaudy for that location and I HATE the theatres name.
This opened in 1971-72? as the UA COLUMBIA I & II as a first run venue primarily for Columbia Pictures…One opening attraction was The Last Picture Show which I managed to get into even though I was a couple of years underage…Columbia managed to run a couple of road show attractions through here as well such as Young Winston and Godspell…Eventually some Fox first run and Universal product came through here and they redid the front and renamed them the Gemini Twins around 1978…Among the pictures I saw here in the 70s – The Last Detail, Images, The New Centurions, The Three Musketeers, A Woman Under the Influence, American Graffiti, A Bridge Too Far, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in 2nd run and Rocky in 2nd run…In the 80s Total Recall, Air America
The original marquee was flat against the facade and they tended to squeeze some abrreviated coming attractions onto them…There was also a move in the early 80s to using homemade rather than studio posters for coming attractions
In 1974 they held an all nite Columbia retrospective for the 50th anniversary of Columbia Pictures…my dad tried in vain to track me down there
this theatre was far better as a twin than this stupid triplexing or multiplexing that these theatre companies do.