Walter Reade Theater
165 W. 65th Street,
New York,
NY
10023
165 W. 65th Street,
New York,
NY
10023
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The Walter Reade Theater opened on December 3, 1991. The facility is programmed and managed by the Film Society of Lincoln Center. The programs here are an impressive wide-ranging amalgam of revived classics, festivals of new films from various nations, movie-series dedicated to specific directors and actors and other artists.
The auditorium is also used as an adjunct venue for the annual New York Film Festival, most of which takes place in nearby Alice Tully Hall, located down below on Broadway. A film-buff’s paradise-on-earth, the programs here rival those of the Museum of Modern Art and the Film Forum elsewhere in Manhattan.
The state-of-the-art theater is fully equipped to show all film formats and aspect ratios with appropriate masking. As of 2012, the screen size is 32 x 18 feet. A monthly booklet lists all the upcoming programs in concise detail.
The Walter Reade Theater is located on the Plaza level of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and is adjacent to the Julliard School of Music and a short hop from Avery Fisher Hall, the Metropolitan Opera, the New York State Theatre, and other facilities at Lincoln Center.
Contributed by
Gerald A. DeLuca
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Anyone see the first showing of PLAYTIME? I’m coming down for that one today, with hopes high for a great print.
Well, I didn’t get the pristine print I’d hoped for, but after a rough start it was mostly good, and seeing PLAYTIME on the big screen was wonderful.
Glad you had a good time, Chas. I’ll be going later today for Ryan’s Daughter. Been waiting 42 years to see that in 70mm. It’s going to be spectacular! Hope the Swedish subtitles aren’t too distracting.
Tron is being shown in 70mm as well.
Ryan’s Daughter was one of the finest examples of 70mm filmmaking it has ever been my privilege to see and hear. The sound was especially powerful. Whenever I watch this film at home, I always worry about it being too loud for the people downstairs. What a thrill to hear it blasting away in a theater. On the visual side, easily one of the most beautifully photographed films ever made. Thanks to the Walter Reade and the Film Society of Lincoln Center for showing this too-rarely-screened 70mm masterpiece.
Excellent screen, and excellent programming by the Film Society! Saw “MASH” here in 2010 with Elliott Gould in attendance for Q&A. Mr. Gould was great, and I had a five-plus minute conversation with him about conspiracy films of the 1970’s, since I love “Capricorn One” so much! He and Tom Skerritt were great and signed a commermorative 20th Century-Fox 75th Anniversary poster for a number of us.
The auditorium is very nice, a great balance of nice size and excellent projection and sound. I would love to come back and see more films!
This has always been a great theater. How have the upgrades been? I heard it may become the NY Dolby theater like its sister in California.
Does this theater have recliners?
The man whom this theater is named after was once one of the biggest showmen in the northeast along with Mr. Smith of General Cinema and the Redstone family of National Amusements. His company would also make movies and tv shows and was later acquired by Columbia Pictures in the mid 1980s until Coke sold it to Cineplex Odeon in 1987.
I don’t know whether it’s funny or sad that you would have to explain to readers of this site, who Walter Reade was.