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The Grand Illusion Cinema is the longest running independent cinema in the city of Seattle, Washington, and has become a landmark of the film community. Opened as The Movie House in 1970, the cinema became the city's first intimate arthouse and showcased foreign and revival films. The Grand Illusion is located in Seattle's University District.
Landmark continued to operate the Egyptian Theater until June 27, 2013, after the company declined to renew its lease with Seattle Central College. [5] SIFF took over the lease in May 2014 and raised $340,000 from crowdsourced donations to repair and reopen the theater. [6] The SIFF Egyptian Theater reopened on October 3, 2014. [7]
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The turnaround began in 1997 when developers revealed plans to turn the Cinerama into a dinner theater or a rock-climbing club. This sparked a grassroots effort to save the historic venue, with local film buffs circulating petitions and issuing an urgent cry for help, which was answered by multi-billionaire Paul Allen, himself a movie fan and patron of the theater during its 1960s heyday.
The Coliseum continued as a first-run theater into the late 1970s, [5] and continued to show films until 1990. [3] It closed on March 11, 1990, after showing the film Tremors ; [ 6 ] the building was renovated into a 15,000-square-foot (1,400 m 2 ) Banana Republic clothing store that opened in 1994. [ 7 ]
[4] [5] The theater was built with a Kimball orchestral theater organ, [6] which was removed in 1943. [7] By the end of the 1940s, the theater was renamed the Neptune, given a small renovation and changed ownership. [8] The theater went through several management changes during the coming decades, suffering from erratic bookings and poor equipment.
ACT was founded by Gregory A. Falls in 1965, providing Seattle with "a serious alternative to summer stock theater." [7] They staged their first performance July 9, 1965. [citation needed] ACT was originally in a 454-seat thrust-stage theater [4] [8] in Queen Anne Hall, now home to On the Boards.
Seattle resident B. Marcus Priteca, an established architect of movie palaces in the 1920s, designed the building's adjacent apartments and office suites. Interior and balcony of Paramount Theatre. The Paramount Theatre is the first venue in the United States to have a convertible floor system, which converts the theater to a ballroom ...