Loew's 72nd Street East

Does anyone remember if the Tower East was where “Cousin Cousine” enjoyed its lengthy first-run release (I think the year was 1976)? If it wasn’t the Tower East, which theater was it and do you know how many weeks it ran?

Renewing link.

I’ve been attempting to do a list of films that played here from the 1960’s to the 1990’s, but newspaper strikes in 1963 and 1978 have caused me to halt the 1960’s and 1970’s lists. So instead, I will give you a list of movies that played here in the 1980’s.

Here we go.

-1980 began with a continued run of Kramer vs. Kramer
6/11/1980 Urban Cowboy (8 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
8/8/1980 The Fiendish Plot Of Dr. Fu Manchu (6 weeks)
9/19/1980 Ordinary People (11 weeks)
12/3/1980 The Competition (13 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
3/6/1981 All Night Long (4 weeks, stereo)
4/3/1981 Atlantic City (7 weeks)
5/22/1981 The Four Seasons (11 weeks)
8/7/1981 Heavy Metal (4 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
9/4/1981 Private Lessons (3 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
9/23/1981 Only When I Laugh (8 weeks, stereo)
11/19/1981 Absence Of Malice (12 weeks, stereo)
2/11/1982 One From The Heart (3 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
3/5/1982 I’m Dancing As Fast As I Can (6 weeks)
4/16/1982 Wrong Is Right (6 weeks)
5/28/1982 The Lucky Star (1 week)
6/4/1982 Hanky Panky (3 weeks, stereo)
6/25/1982 Monty Python: Live At The Hollywood Bowl (3 weeks)
7/16/1982 Diner (4 weeks)
8/13/1982 Tempest in 70mm (7 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
10/1/1982 My Favorite Year (3 weeks)
10/22/1982 Monsignor (4 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
11/19/1982 Still Of The Night (4 weeks)
12/17/1982 Tootsie (7 weeks)
2/4/1983 Without A Trace (4 weeks)
¾/1983 Tender Mercies (4 weeks, stereo)
4/1/1983 Man, Woman and Child (5 weeks)
5/6/1983 Flashdance (MO, 7 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
6/22/1983 The Survivors (2 weeks)
7/8/1983 Trading Places (MO, 4 weeks)
8/5/1983 The Star Chamber in 70mm (4 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
9/2/1983 Gandhi in 70mm (RE, 3 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
9/23/1983 Trading Places (RE, 3 weeks)
10/9/1983 Rumble Fish (5 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
11/18/1983 A Christmas Story (4 weeks)
12/14/1983 Silkwood (12 weeks)
3/9/1984 The Hotel New Hampshire (5 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
4/13/1984 Against All Odds (MO, 1 week, Dolby Stereo)
4/20/1984 Champions (1 week, Dolby Stereo)
4/27/1984 Footloose (MO, 1 week, Dolby Stereo)
5/4/1984 Purple Hearts (1 week, Dolby Stereo)
5/11/1984 This Is Spinal Tap (MO, 1 week, Dolby Stereo)
5/18/1984 Moscow On The Hudson (MO, 5 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
6/22/1984 Top Secret (7 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
8/10/1984 Phar Lap (6 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
9/19/1984 Amadeus in 70mm (9 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
11/21/1984 Falling In Love (8 weeks)
1/18/1985 That’s Dancing! (3 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
2/8/1985 Witness (16 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
5/31/1985 Fletch (8 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
7/26/1985 Wetherby (2 weeks, stereo)
8/9/1985 Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (3 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
8/30/1985 Compromising Positions (9 weeks)
11/1/1985 Macaroni (5 weeks)
12/6/1985 closed (2 weeks)
12/18/1985 Out Of Africa in 70mm (14 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
3/28/1986 Ginger and Fred (7 weeks)
5/14/1986 Sweet Liberty (5 weeks)
6/18/1986 Legal Eagles (5 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
7/25/1986 Heartburn (6 weeks)
9/12/1986 ‘night, Mother (3 weeks)
10/3/1986 Children Of A Lesser God (12 weeks)
12/25/1986 Brighton Beach Memoirs (6 weeks)
2/6/1987 Dead Of Winter (4 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
3/6/1987 Angel Heart (5 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
4/10/1987 Making Mr. Right (4 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
5/8/1987 Gardens Of Stone (7 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
6/24/1987 Spaceballs in 70mm (7 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
8/14/1987 No Way Out (5 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
9/18/1987 Fatal Attraction (13 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
12/18/1987 Ironweed (7 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
2/5/1988 The Unbearable Lightness Of Being (7 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
3/25/1988 A New Life (3 weeks)
4/15/1988 The Last Emperor in 70mm (RE, 2 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
4/29/1988 The Last Emperor (RE, 3 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
5/20/1988 Willow in 70mm (8 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
7/15/1988 A Fish Called Wanda (7 weeks)
9/2/1988 Eight Men Out (4 weeks)
9/30/1988 Married To The Mob (MO, 2 weeks, Dolby Stereo SR)
10/14/1988 The Accused (8 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
12/9/1988 Mississippi Burning (16 weeks, Dolby Stereo SR)
3/31/1989 Rain Man (RE, 4 weeks, Dolby Stereo SR)
4/28/1989 Miss Firecracker (1 week, Dolby Stereo)
5/5/1989 Lost Angels (2 weeks, Dolby Stereo SR)
5/19/1989 Heathers (MO, 1 week)
5/26/1989 Criminal Law (MO, 1 week, Dolby Stereo)
6/2/1989 Earth Girls Are Easy (MO, 4 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
6/30/1989 Great Balls Of Fire (2 weeks, Dolby Stereo SR)
7/14/1989 Peter Pan (RE, 4 weeks)
8/9/1989 Honey, I Shrunk The Kids (MO, 1 week, Dolby Stereo)
8/18/1989 Let It Ride (2 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
8/30/1989 Shirley Valentine (6 weeks, Dolby Stereo)
10/13/1989 Crimes and Misdemeanors (17 weeks)

A second thought. They should rename this theatre the Tower East

I am glad this theatre is doing well. I know AMC doesn’t like single screen theatres. I was sure they would have closed this theatre.

After a very long run of “Frost/Nixon” this weekend “Duplicity” opens at the Tower East.

Saw “The Goodbye Girl” here in December 1977.
I can’t think of any other theater that one enters from the top of the balcony – a true balcony, that is. – Ed Blank

Definitely, Maybe is currently running here. Probably didn’t do too well.

Were the Tower East on 72nd and the Tower East on 71st different theatres or the same?

I forgot to mention that the Jim Carrey/Kate Winslet romantic comedy ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND was also shown at the Loews 72nd Street East on March 19, 2004.

Continuing the trend in recent years of booking the 72nd Street East with mostly Universal product, ‘American Gangster’ is opening there on November 2nd.

The Burtons in 1966 day & dating with the Criterion
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