Br, yes, I believe it was located between 61st and 62nd Street on the west side of First Avenue. So the street address you gave is probably correct.
The only film I ever saw there was Akira Kurosawa’s “Dodes'ka-den” in October of 1974. Other films that played there were “First Position” (“A Dancer’s Life”), Renoir’s “The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir” and the Cuban film by Alea, “Memories of Underdevelopment.”
Ron, the ICA Cinema on Boylston Street, which probably merits its own listing, had the worst sight lines imaginable. Unless you sat in the very first row, you were doomed to having your view of the screen, and inevitably any subtitles, partially blocked by heads. This was a bad feature of their otherwise fantastic complete Pasolini retrospective.
I visited this theatre once only, in March of 1976, to see “Scent of a Woman,” the original Italian version (“Profumo di donna”) starring Vittorio Gassman.
The film and discussion session with legendary director Nicholas Ray took place on the evening of January 2, 1975. Mr. Ray fielded questions after the showing of the documentary on his life and career by David Helpern, “I’m a Stranger Here Myself.” Ray died four years later of lung cancer in 1979.
In its Cinema Italia phase, when the theatre was leased and programmed by Mr. Rolando Petrella of the local Italian-language radio programs, many popular Italian films of wide appeal to the Italian-speaking audience were shown, generally without subtitles. The Italian comic Totò was a standard favorite and would always draw larger audiences. In March of 1967 a film of his, the 1954 “Miseria e nobilità ” (co-starring a young Sophia Loren) played here alongside the non-Totò “Il conte di Matera.” The general American film-going audience never really knew Totò except from art-house fare like Monicelli’s “Big Deal on Madonna Street” and Pasolini’s “The Hawks and the Sparrows.” In recent years, however, there have been Totò retrospectives and tributes at places like the Museum of Modern Art and the Walter Reade Theatre in New York.
When Joseph Strick’s film “James Joyce’s Ulysses” played here in March of 1967, the unheard-of admission price (for that time) was $5.50! That was about two to three times what normal admission prices were in the area.
I visited this theatre only once, to see a specially-touted revival of David Lean’s “Great Expectations” in July of 1964. Was this at the start of the new art/revival policy?
The Bijou Cinema has closed as of Saturday, November 20, 2004. For the reasons see their website http://bijoucinema.org/ Among the last films shown, appropriately, was a revival of “The Last Picture Show.” No admission was charged.
Boxoffice Bill, Thanks…
I know Ginzburg’s play “Ti ho sposato…” from the book and from the film version. I have De Filippo’s 1942 film version of “Non ti pago!” with the whole De Filippo family…utterly hilarious. When I first saw it at MoMA in New York, the audience was in stitches. Do you know the Teatro Rossini…near the Pantheon? I remember seeing a Roman dialect play, “L'avaro” there in 2000. I did an entry on this website on the Azzurro Scipioni, an idiosyncratic but indispensable cinema. It’s practically in the Pope’s backyard. He should go there. Perhaps you should add your comments there as well.
I went to two films at this spiffy brand-new cinema yesterday and I must say it is a very comfortable and pleasant place to visit, and New Haven is lucky to have it. We hope the place complements the programming at the York Square without putting the older place out of business.
This kind of venue, that is, a multi-screen state-of-the-art art-house, has been promised for years to those of us who live in Providence but has not materialized. The two films I saw were both somewhat off-beat but have a great deal to recommend them: “Undertow” and “Callas Forever.” Judging by the line at the evening show, “Sideways” seemed to be attracting so many patrons that you couldn’t get in sideways.
Sound, projection, seat-comfort are all terrific, and there was no obnoxious slide-show before the movie! My only beef: if they insist on playing music before each show, why does it have to be so ear-splittingly loud? Some patrons may like to have quiet conversations or just simply prefer not to have their ears assaulted in such aggressive fashion while waiting for the movie to start.
Yes, back toward the fountain, with the baroque-façade church of Santi Vincenzo e Anastasio on your left walk toward the rear of the Quirinale, not toward the via Tritone. Maps list the street as being Via San Vincenzo. If you were to continue walking, you would end up at via IV Novembre. The Vicolo del Puttarello address comes from the newspaper listing in Il Messagero and their website and according to this online article on Trevi district streets, it seems to be a tiny street that runs off Via San Vincenzo. View link
As stated in my description above, it is located a few steps from the Fountain of Trevi. Walking away from the Fountain of Trevi, look at the church on the left. The Sala Trevi entrance in on the street just to the right of the church, beyond the Dunkin' Donuts!
I truly enjoyed going to this theatre from the time I was in high school in the late 1950s until the years before it was closed in the 1970s. The first film I ever saw here, I believe, was Cecil B. DeMille’s “The Ten Commandments.” If memory does not fail, the film “A Man for all Seasons” had its R.I. area premiere here in 1966, unusual for a suburban movie house known for playing second-run programs after they had shown in Providence.
The Jerry Lewis cinemas, wherever they were built (as single screeners), seemed to be totally identical in size and configuration to each other but were fairly pleasant and comfortable. At this one, still called the Jerry Lewis Cinema, Coventry, I noted seeing “Wild Rovers,” “The Graduate,” and “Blue Water, White Death” in July-August, 1972.
I believe I visited this cinema only once, on July 22, 1978, to see Barbara Stanwyk in “Sorry, Wrong Number.” The place reminded me of the film programs at Theatre 80 St. Marks in Manhattan, which I believe also employed rear-projection.
It seems that whenever I am in New York there is ALWAYS something of interest playing at the Quad to appeal to the serious (jaded?) film buff. When I brought a small group of high-school students to the city in April of 2000 for Broadway shows and the opera, I also took them here on one free night to see the beautiful Iranian film “The Color of Paradise,” about the travails of a blind boy. They all came out teary-eyed. The place is horribly cramped but utterly essential.
No…I also saw Toshio Matsumoto’s “Funeral Parade of Roses” here on June 9, 1973.
Br, yes, I believe it was located between 61st and 62nd Street on the west side of First Avenue. So the street address you gave is probably correct.
The only film I ever saw there was Akira Kurosawa’s “Dodes'ka-den” in October of 1974. Other films that played there were “First Position” (“A Dancer’s Life”), Renoir’s “The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir” and the Cuban film by Alea, “Memories of Underdevelopment.”
Ron, the ICA Cinema on Boylston Street, which probably merits its own listing, had the worst sight lines imaginable. Unless you sat in the very first row, you were doomed to having your view of the screen, and inevitably any subtitles, partially blocked by heads. This was a bad feature of their otherwise fantastic complete Pasolini retrospective.
I visited this theatre once only, in March of 1976, to see “Scent of a Woman,” the original Italian version (“Profumo di donna”) starring Vittorio Gassman.
The theatre was named the Starcase Cinema after the mid-1970s.
…but was the Cumberland Twin when I saw “Bite the Bullet” in 1975.
Titles of films weren’t given in newspaper ads. I guess they just changed stuff once a week.
The film and discussion session with legendary director Nicholas Ray took place on the evening of January 2, 1975. Mr. Ray fielded questions after the showing of the documentary on his life and career by David Helpern, “I’m a Stranger Here Myself.” Ray died four years later of lung cancer in 1979.
In its Cinema Italia phase, when the theatre was leased and programmed by Mr. Rolando Petrella of the local Italian-language radio programs, many popular Italian films of wide appeal to the Italian-speaking audience were shown, generally without subtitles. The Italian comic Totò was a standard favorite and would always draw larger audiences. In March of 1967 a film of his, the 1954 “Miseria e nobilità ” (co-starring a young Sophia Loren) played here alongside the non-Totò “Il conte di Matera.” The general American film-going audience never really knew Totò except from art-house fare like Monicelli’s “Big Deal on Madonna Street” and Pasolini’s “The Hawks and the Sparrows.” In recent years, however, there have been Totò retrospectives and tributes at places like the Museum of Modern Art and the Walter Reade Theatre in New York.
When Joseph Strick’s film “James Joyce’s Ulysses” played here in March of 1967, the unheard-of admission price (for that time) was $5.50! That was about two to three times what normal admission prices were in the area.
I visited this theatre only once, to see a specially-touted revival of David Lean’s “Great Expectations” in July of 1964. Was this at the start of the new art/revival policy?
This was still the Jerry Lewis Cinema when I saw “Gimme Shelter” here in November of 1971.
The Bijou Cinema has closed as of Saturday, November 20, 2004. For the reasons see their website http://bijoucinema.org/ Among the last films shown, appropriately, was a revival of “The Last Picture Show.” No admission was charged.
What a name! Sounds like it could have easily made the transition to a porn house. Er, sorry.
This should also be listed under the alternate name “Galeria Cinema” since that is what it opened as…“Galeria” with one l.
I saw a pile of films here in the spring 1981, a year when the theatre was one of several used for FILMEX.
Boxoffice Bill, Thanks…
I know Ginzburg’s play “Ti ho sposato…” from the book and from the film version. I have De Filippo’s 1942 film version of “Non ti pago!” with the whole De Filippo family…utterly hilarious. When I first saw it at MoMA in New York, the audience was in stitches. Do you know the Teatro Rossini…near the Pantheon? I remember seeing a Roman dialect play, “L'avaro” there in 2000. I did an entry on this website on the Azzurro Scipioni, an idiosyncratic but indispensable cinema. It’s practically in the Pope’s backyard. He should go there. Perhaps you should add your comments there as well.
I went to two films at this spiffy brand-new cinema yesterday and I must say it is a very comfortable and pleasant place to visit, and New Haven is lucky to have it. We hope the place complements the programming at the York Square without putting the older place out of business.
This kind of venue, that is, a multi-screen state-of-the-art art-house, has been promised for years to those of us who live in Providence but has not materialized. The two films I saw were both somewhat off-beat but have a great deal to recommend them: “Undertow” and “Callas Forever.” Judging by the line at the evening show, “Sideways” seemed to be attracting so many patrons that you couldn’t get in sideways.
Sound, projection, seat-comfort are all terrific, and there was no obnoxious slide-show before the movie! My only beef: if they insist on playing music before each show, why does it have to be so ear-splittingly loud? Some patrons may like to have quiet conversations or just simply prefer not to have their ears assaulted in such aggressive fashion while waiting for the movie to start.
Yes, back toward the fountain, with the baroque-façade church of Santi Vincenzo e Anastasio on your left walk toward the rear of the Quirinale, not toward the via Tritone. Maps list the street as being Via San Vincenzo. If you were to continue walking, you would end up at via IV Novembre. The Vicolo del Puttarello address comes from the newspaper listing in Il Messagero and their website and according to this online article on Trevi district streets, it seems to be a tiny street that runs off Via San Vincenzo.
View link
As stated in my description above, it is located a few steps from the Fountain of Trevi. Walking away from the Fountain of Trevi, look at the church on the left. The Sala Trevi entrance in on the street just to the right of the church, beyond the Dunkin' Donuts!
I truly enjoyed going to this theatre from the time I was in high school in the late 1950s until the years before it was closed in the 1970s. The first film I ever saw here, I believe, was Cecil B. DeMille’s “The Ten Commandments.” If memory does not fail, the film “A Man for all Seasons” had its R.I. area premiere here in 1966, unusual for a suburban movie house known for playing second-run programs after they had shown in Providence.
The Jerry Lewis cinemas, wherever they were built (as single screeners), seemed to be totally identical in size and configuration to each other but were fairly pleasant and comfortable. At this one, still called the Jerry Lewis Cinema, Coventry, I noted seeing “Wild Rovers,” “The Graduate,” and “Blue Water, White Death” in July-August, 1972.
I believe I visited this cinema only once, on July 22, 1978, to see Barbara Stanwyk in “Sorry, Wrong Number.” The place reminded me of the film programs at Theatre 80 St. Marks in Manhattan, which I believe also employed rear-projection.
It seems that whenever I am in New York there is ALWAYS something of interest playing at the Quad to appeal to the serious (jaded?) film buff. When I brought a small group of high-school students to the city in April of 2000 for Broadway shows and the opera, I also took them here on one free night to see the beautiful Iranian film “The Color of Paradise,” about the travails of a blind boy. They all came out teary-eyed. The place is horribly cramped but utterly essential.
One memorable bit of programming at this theatre in 1981, after it became the first Nickelodeon, was Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s “Our Hitler,” which had a running time of over seven hours! (The film posits that Hitler was the answer to the Germans' most profound dreams.) It was shown in two parts, with a long dinner break between the parts. It started out as a Sunday matinée. My two friends and I then had dinner at the Dolphin Restaurant in Cambridge and afterwards returned for the evening portion.