From: John Matturri (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Nov 17 2009 - 00:32:43 PST
Bleeker Street Cinema also. Before my time, but the Charles, I think on
Avenue B or C, and Cinema 16. No idea where its screenings were held.
j
Saul Ostrow wrote:
> I think it was the Thalia on 8th ave had mid-night shows - I saw
> Chesea Girls there and I think also Empire
>
>
> On 11/16/09 6:58 PM, "Fred Camper" <email suppressed> wrote:
>
> A movie theater called the 55th Street Playhouse, which was indeed on
> 55th Street, had a brief period in early 1964 of showing avant-garde
> films with one week runs. I saw "Twice a Man" there.
>
> The Astor Place Playhouse showed avant-garde films, I believe around
> 1965. I'm not sure who organized this; it might have been Jonas Mekas.
>
> There was also a period of screenings at the City Hall Cinema, likely
> organized by Mekas, where there was a complete Brakhage retrospective
> (perhaps the first ever?) in the mid-1960s.
>
> I don't even know if these places are physically extant today.
>
> Fred Camper
> Chicago
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