I was the manager of the Allston for an almost interminable period: 1987 to ‘99. If I remember correctly, Cinema 1had 208 seats and Cinema 2 had 179.
It was really sad the way Showcase ignored the place. We were jokingly referred to as Circle Cinema screens 8 and 9 by the company’s other local managers. If we were ever busy, I believe it was due to an error. We opened Robocop and Do the Right Thing probably because the company didn’t realize they’d be as big as they were. And yes, we ran both of those films on both screens, running a single print through the projectors on “interlock”.
When I took over as managing director of Allston after working as assistant manager my first year with the company, I wrote a memo to the district and corporateoffices suggesting they let me experiment with programming one of the screens. Allston has a lot of students and immigrants, and I have an MS in the history of world cinema, so I thought I could make the place more a part of the community. No one replied to the memo, and we kept running the Circle’s leftovers.
I was the manager of the Allston for an almost interminable period: 1987 to ‘99. If I remember correctly, Cinema 1had 208 seats and Cinema 2 had 179.
It was really sad the way Showcase ignored the place. We were jokingly referred to as Circle Cinema screens 8 and 9 by the company’s other local managers. If we were ever busy, I believe it was due to an error. We opened Robocop and Do the Right Thing probably because the company didn’t realize they’d be as big as they were. And yes, we ran both of those films on both screens, running a single print through the projectors on “interlock”.
When I took over as managing director of Allston after working as assistant manager my first year with the company, I wrote a memo to the district and corporateoffices suggesting they let me experiment with programming one of the screens. Allston has a lot of students and immigrants, and I have an MS in the history of world cinema, so I thought I could make the place more a part of the community. No one replied to the memo, and we kept running the Circle’s leftovers.