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sconn commented about Dimond Center 9 Cinemas on Mar 25, 2018 at 11:15 pm

Man, I went to see Rocky IV when it opened here and the lines stretched up and down the mall corridors. Haven’t since anything like it since.

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sconn commented about Cannery Cinema on Mar 26, 2017 at 8:31 pm

My mom and uncle used to see Bogart movies here when they roomed together in the Haight in the late ‘60s-early '70s.

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sconn commented about AMC Kabuki 8 on Mar 26, 2017 at 8:24 pm

Saw Midnight In Paris and The Dark Knight Rises here. Nice organic snack-bar and doesn’t show previews before the film (halleluah!), but they’re kind of jerks checking for IDs outside your theater AFTER one has purchased an alcoholic beverage there.

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sconn commented about Hiland Theater on Mar 26, 2017 at 8:12 pm

A nice venue. I saw Robert Redford speak and receive an honor there in 2013.

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sconn commented about Century 14 Downtown on Mar 26, 2017 at 7:45 pm

A nice convenient theater if you’re getting off the interstate and watch to catch something, though a lot of riff-raff hang around the train station across the street.

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sconn commented about AMC Boston Common 19 on Oct 19, 2016 at 12:09 pm

Love this little Loews. Saw A Most Violent Year (with Jessica Chastain – I’m an extra in her latest movie!) there a few snowy Januarys ago.

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sconn commented about Liberty Theatre on Oct 19, 2016 at 10:58 am

Can’t remember if it was the Liberty where I saw Wedding Crashers with my dad in 2005. Think it was a converted army barracks; as down-at-the-heels a theater as I’ve ever been in

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sconn commented about Lory Theater on Oct 19, 2016 at 10:55 am

My ex worked there; heard all the little stories of intrigue among the staff. Big deal when it was saved in 2012 (saw Oz the Great and Powerful there for a special family screening. Good times).

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sconn commented about Lensic Performing Arts Center on Oct 19, 2016 at 10:34 am

I miss when it was a movie theater. Saw Gary Oldman in “Immortal Beloved” there, Woody Allen’s “Everyone Says I Love You” multiple times, great times

(Evangelo’s, the bar where Jeff Bridges performed in Crazy Heart (and in the forthcoming Granite Mountain) is just across the street to the right of the photo).

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sconn commented about 5th Avenue Theatre on Oct 24, 2011 at 2:36 am

The Chris Farley film “Black Sheep” had a scene shot here, and gives a pretty good sense of the grandeur of the lobby.

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sconn commented about Fountain Theatre on Oct 24, 2011 at 2:18 am

The theater seems to be in constant peril. Every two years the lease expires and the newspaper runs stories of it being on the verge of being bought out by a neighboring boutique or winery. Luckily this hasn’t happened…yet.

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sconn commented about Allen Theaters - Video 4 on Oct 24, 2011 at 2:13 am

Shows second run movies to this day.

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sconn commented about Fireweed 7 Cinemas on Oct 23, 2011 at 12:26 am

Saw Raiders of the Lost Ark on my parent’s wedding anniversary, Empire Strikes Back, and Ghostbusters twice (the next year on a double-bill with the premiere of Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure) here.

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sconn commented about Cinemark Century 16 and XD on Oct 23, 2011 at 12:22 am

Saw Sexy Beast with my father here in 2000, then snuck into Planet of the Apes!

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sconn commented about 4th Avenue Theatre on Oct 20, 2011 at 12:30 am

I saw many movies here as a kid in the ‘80s – Goonies, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Kurosawa’s Ran. Beautiful walls with twinkling stars and inlaid images of gold miners.