Cine Riviera
Calle 23 507,
Vedado,
Havana
Calle 23 507,
Vedado,
Havana
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Additional Info
Functions: Concerts, Movies (Film Festivals), Movies (First Run), Movies (Foreign)
Styles: Art Deco
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The Cine Riviera is located in the Vedado district of Havana on Calle 23 at Avenida de los Presidentes between G Street & H Street. It was opened in 1927.
It screens a range of films, usually ‘action movies’, from North America, England, Cuba and Spanish language movies. It hosts film festivals and occasionaly stages concerts.
Contributed by
Ken Roe
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The Cine Riviera as photographed in February 2006:
http://flickr.com/photos/garbageman/108602707/
The Cine Riviera photographed in September 2005:
http://flickr.com/photos/carlosalk/44924764/
It was already operating in 1946. The stairs looked so much higher when I was a child! I remember my cousin took me to see a Cantinflas movie there, perhaps “Soy un prófugo”, and I later saw “The Best of Everything” with Hope Lange and Stephen Boyd in 1959. The Carmelo restaurant next door to the east at 505 served a delicious “toasted ice cream” (baked Alaska). The theater is erroneously positioned on the street map in El Cerro, it was on 23 Street between G and H in Vedado.
If you skip forward 40 minutes into this video you can see a series of Havana cinemas in the 1950’s including the Riviera.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqWWsvIkUU8&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR3QlyvumVOzQb9p9DYwxNBQvd81SdHJw-bnTUKyUBdrAV7fVSMXs4zL-Pw