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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]
San Jose, California—Opened 1927, closed in 1973, renovated and reopened in 2004; Santa Barbara, California—Opened 1930; Santa Paula, California— Opened on October 12, 1950, the Fox Theatre ran through at least 1968 but was demolished in the late-1980s. [87] Seattle, Washington—Opened 1929, renamed Roxy in 1933; Spokane, Washington ...
The Sacramento French Film Festival, founded in 2001, is an annual event held in July at the Crest Theatre. [2] It celebrates the present as well as the rich history of French cinema featuring new releases and rarely seen classics. It is the only festival dedicated to French cinema in Northern California and one of only two on the West coast.
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.
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 first Century theater was the Century 21 in San Jose, California, which opened November 24, 1964, adjacent to the Winchester Mystery House. [1] The Century 21 theater was built to showcase Cinerama type movies (the left and right empty projection booths are still present), but in fact, it showed only 70mm movies. The screen was later ...
Cinemas and movie theaters in the San Francisco Bay Area (34 P) S. Theatres in San Francisco (49 P) Theatres in San Jose, California (4 P) T. Theatres in Oakland, ...