My favorite downtown theatre after the Michigan. As the Broadway-Capital & later the Grand Circus this theatre played mostly horror movies. When KING KONG was revived it played here. And other movies like I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE. Later when the downtown theatres were losing out to big neighborhood theatres the Grand Circus tried other kinds of movies. With the increased popularity of ‘Art Houses’ the Grand Circus booked the great Indian director Satyajit Ray’s DEVI. A far cry from the likes of ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS. And later (perhaps an omen of its present incarnation) a film of Pucini’s LA BOHEME with Mirella Freni & Gianni Raimondi. But the theatre’s greatest day was getting the world premier of the greatest SCI-FI movie of all time: INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS.
My favorite downtown theatre after the Michigan. As the Broadway-Capital & later the Grand Circus this theatre played mostly horror movies. When KING KONG was revived it played here. And other movies like I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE. Later when the downtown theatres were losing out to big neighborhood theatres the Grand Circus tried other kinds of movies. With the increased popularity of ‘Art Houses’ the Grand Circus booked the great Indian director Satyajit Ray’s DEVI. A far cry from the likes of ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS. And later (perhaps an omen of its present incarnation) a film of Pucini’s LA BOHEME with Mirella Freni & Gianni Raimondi. But the theatre’s greatest day was getting the world premier of the greatest SCI-FI movie of all time: INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS.