Cinema Spaces: NYC Avant-Garde Cinemas 1960-70s
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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
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