The BTM Criterion Cinemas, as it is now known, shows its last film later this evening, October 12, 2023. After the loss of the Ciné 4 in 2022, the closure of BTM Criterion leaves New Haven without a first-run cinema.
Films screening on its last day were The Exorcist: Believer, The Royal Hotel, Saw X, The Creator, Flora and Son, Stop Making Sense, A Haunting in Venice, Dumb Money, and Bottoms.
As of July, 2018, all three screens were in action. Screen 1 (HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3, INCREDIBLES 2) was digital, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE—FALLOUT and A QUIET PLACE were screening in 35mm on screen 2, and E.T. and JAWS were screening on screen 3 (presumably 35mm, but unconfirmed) the night I attended.
I scanned my Capri flyers from the ‘90s if you’re interested in what was screening there (and at the short-lived single screen 35mm theater in the basement of Cyrano’s downtown) between 1991 and 1997.
The BTM Criterion Cinemas, as it is now known, shows its last film later this evening, October 12, 2023. After the loss of the Ciné 4 in 2022, the closure of BTM Criterion leaves New Haven without a first-run cinema.
Films screening on its last day were The Exorcist: Believer, The Royal Hotel, Saw X, The Creator, Flora and Son, Stop Making Sense, A Haunting in Venice, Dumb Money, and Bottoms.
An article about the closure and sale of the Ciné-4:
https://www.newhavenindependent.org/article/cine4_sale_childcare
Photos of the demolition of the Leo S. Bing Theater, which began Monday, April 6, 2020, to make way for a $750 million new building project at LACMA.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-04-07/lacma-demolition-begins-photos
As of July, 2018, all three screens were in action. Screen 1 (HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3, INCREDIBLES 2) was digital, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE—FALLOUT and A QUIET PLACE were screening in 35mm on screen 2, and E.T. and JAWS were screening on screen 3 (presumably 35mm, but unconfirmed) the night I attended.
I scanned my Capri flyers from the ‘90s if you’re interested in what was screening there (and at the short-lived single screen 35mm theater in the basement of Cyrano’s downtown) between 1991 and 1997.
The Fireweed is now officially closed. It went out with a whimper, screening the Miley Cyrus film “The Last Song.”
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