I hate it when I end up in Cinema 5. There is about 10 feet between the screen & the back row. Fortunately, I’ve always managed to get a seat in the back row.
Amazing that this cinema has managed to remain open in a part of Manhattan that used to be a movie-goers destination w/ all the cinemas that were in the area. Now it is this and the Cinema 1,2,3 around the corner. I used to attend when it was called “ImaginAsian” but there was never many people in attendance when I went, so I wasn’t surprised when they pulled the plug. I haven’t been there since it became Big Cinemas and began featuring, for the most part, Bollywood fare.
I’ve attended some of the monthly, $5 Academy screenings here and they have all been 35MM prints, more often than not newly struck. However, the site lines in this space are atrocious. God forbid someone reasonably tall sits in front of you. You will be craning your neck for the entire movie.
I used to see a handful of films here a year and while the site lines were atrocious, it booked films that almost certainly wouldn’t have otherwise received theatrical distribution in New York City. They used to change the films each week and the films that played here didn’t play in any other theatre. They also occasionally showed revivals. Because the films came and went on a weekly basis, I often missed films, thinking that I’d catch with them on DVD. However, several films that played here that I missed & wanted to see were so independent that they never made it to DVD.
I hate it when I end up in Cinema 5. There is about 10 feet between the screen & the back row. Fortunately, I’ve always managed to get a seat in the back row.
Amazing that this cinema has managed to remain open in a part of Manhattan that used to be a movie-goers destination w/ all the cinemas that were in the area. Now it is this and the Cinema 1,2,3 around the corner. I used to attend when it was called “ImaginAsian” but there was never many people in attendance when I went, so I wasn’t surprised when they pulled the plug. I haven’t been there since it became Big Cinemas and began featuring, for the most part, Bollywood fare.
I’ve attended some of the monthly, $5 Academy screenings here and they have all been 35MM prints, more often than not newly struck. However, the site lines in this space are atrocious. God forbid someone reasonably tall sits in front of you. You will be craning your neck for the entire movie.
I used to see a handful of films here a year and while the site lines were atrocious, it booked films that almost certainly wouldn’t have otherwise received theatrical distribution in New York City. They used to change the films each week and the films that played here didn’t play in any other theatre. They also occasionally showed revivals. Because the films came and went on a weekly basis, I often missed films, thinking that I’d catch with them on DVD. However, several films that played here that I missed & wanted to see were so independent that they never made it to DVD.