Cinema Studio 1 & 2
1931 Broadway,
New York,
NY
10023
1931 Broadway,
New York,
NY
10023
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The Colonial Bank (1964 Broadway) became Bank Leumi Trust in the eighties. The Cinema Studio was located just next to it at 1968 Broadway.
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Warren, since the 1931 Broadway address is listed as the address for the Arcade Theatre in Film Daily yearbooks I suspect it was possibly caused by Lincoln Square Arcade access perhaps changing traditional east and west assignments.
Since the Studio Cinema was built from the ground up in 1946 (the first post-war new build in NYC according to Brecht) it may have inherited the number from the Arcade but, you are correct, I cannot find anything with that number attached to the Studio Cinema, or in fact any number.
How it have been above 66th street when called Studio 65?
1982 exterior image.
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Renewing link.
Wasn’t this the first Manhattan home of “Cinema Paradiso.” Can’t remember if it was one of the last here or one of the first at Lincoln Plaza.
Is 1931 Broadway the correct address for the Cinema Studio? Isn’t it uniformly true that odd numbered addresses are on the left side of Broadway and even numbers on the right?
If the Arcade was replaced by the Studio due to fire shouldn’t these be separate listings instead of alternative names?
How was the Cinema Studio twinned?
Publicity from 1988: The Family by Ettore Scola.
In 1971 with the studio on the verge of bankruptcy and its new releases tanking MGM rushed out its all time diamond for Christmas 1971. The only Manhattan screen they could get the first week was Cinema Studio, although in week 2 they picked up Guild 50th, UA East, UA Riviera and New Alpine. It took till week 3 for them to realize that this ad was from the 1968 70mm engagement and that all of these prints were 35mm Metrocolor.
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If the Theatre St. Marks rates a listing under the name THEATRE surely this should be changed to Cinema Studio.
Warren… gremlins may indeed be to blame for associating that message with your CT account, but it appears to be a response to the old news item about that Utah theater that cancelled a scheduled engagement of “Brokeback Mountain” a few months back.
The last name of this theatre was Cinema Studio.
In 1948 wasn’t it unusual for a theatre to have no curtains?
The original theatre on this site, the Arcade, was in operation by 1919.
Saw Fassbinder’s ‘Despair’, Herzog’s ‘Nosferatu’, the German ‘Taxi To The Toilet’ and ‘El Super’ here.
Gerald A. DeLuca: I agree that “La Tia Tula” deserved wider exposure. We were fortunate that the Studio picked it up, but where are the venues, 40 years later to showcase art-house Spanish language films? The Cinema Latino certainly isn’t doing it. I’m very much in favor of niche marketing as a strategy to sustain more theatres.
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Above link should take you to the Libary of Congress site. Type in Studio Theater and then match all the words.
They have two photos of the interior.
I remember seeing Spike Lee’s “She’s Gotta Have It Here” on a Sunday night and standing in a line that ran around the block. And I remember seeing Steven Soderbergh’s “Sex, Lies & Videotape” here the day after it opened.
Astyanax: The excellent Spanish film “La Tia Tula” with Aurora Bautista played here in an exclusive run in 1965. To my knowledge it was not acquired for general U.S. distribution and was exhibited virtually nowhere else, not even in big cities, despite very good reviews.
When known as the Arcade Theatre in 1930 it was listed as having 550 seats. The same seating capacity is given in 1941, and in 1943 its listed as having 542 seats.
In 1950 it is listed as the Studio Theatre with 560 seats
Figures taken from editions of the Film Daily Yearbook
Before and during WWII, the Studio was called, the Arcade. (I grew up on West 65th Street, between Amsterdam and Broadway.) The theater burned down and was rebuilt as the Studio. (The theater was between 65th and 64th Streets on Broadway.)
Before becoming an art house venue, in the “60’s the Cinema Studio had a first-run Spanish language policy, attempting to showcase the best of movies from Spain and Latin America.
The exterior of the Studio Cinemas/Cinema Studio can be briefly glimpsed in Woody Allen’s ‘Manhattan’.