Index of cinemas included in this archive

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Started as The Film Guild, one of the first film societies in NYC

The Regency, formerly The Alden, was known for its repertory film series programmed by Frank Rowley

An early repertory cinema and screening site for avant-garde film programs

The MoMA film department opened in 1935, seven years after the museum itself; it hosted a well-regarded film society

8th Street Playhouse

52 W. 8th Street
1929 - 1990s

The Regency

1987 Broadway
1931 - 1999

The Thalia

250 W. 95th Street
1931 - 1987

MoMA Film Department

11 W. 53rd Street
1935 - present

Showed early films by Andy Warhol as well as MoMA film programs for a short period

An early revival house that popularized midnight showings in NYC

A film society with 7,000 members at its height; showed eclectic programs of hard-to-find films

An eclectic and avant-garde repertory cinema and distrubtor of independent and foreign films

Gramercy Arts Theater

127 E. 23rd Street
1937 - present

The Elgin

175 8th Avenue
1942 - 1978

Cinema 16

225 W. 44th Street
1947 - 1963

The New Yorker Theater

2409 Broadway
1960 - 1971

Influential art-house that screening independently distributed films and repertory programming

Started by members of the New American Cinema Group as a space for artists to screen their firlms

Screened the Essential Cinema repertory and works by avant-garde filmmakers

Inspired by early film societies to screen hard to find film works

Bleecker Street Cinema

144 Bleecker Street
1962 - 1990

Filmmakers' Cinemateque

80 Wooster Street
1967-69

Anthology Film Archives

425 Lafayette Street
1970-1974

Film Forum

256 W. 88th Street (1970-75)
15 Vandam Street (1975-80)

A screening space for new, avant-garde films beyond the Essential Cinema list

A larger location that support the archive's growing collection of original film material

Collective for Living Cinema

52 White Street
1973-1992

Anthology Film Archives

32 2nd Avenue
1988 - present