the first public movie screenings in n. america took place in this awesome building i love in mtl!! i am so happy to learn this

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this is so cool!

http://www.canada.com/components/printstory/printstory4.aspx?id=838259a9-626c-4e89-80f8-49c83adda336

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 27 August 2004 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

"the gaiety museum and theatorium"!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 27 August 2004 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

i'd like to see that!

― g--ff (gcannon), Friday, 27 August 2004 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

i wanna get in there and see if there are any remnants of the theatorium (or the museum!) maybe some great old shit in the basement!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 27 August 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

like brake-in¿

― dyson (dyson), Friday, 27 August 2004 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, mission:impossible stylee on a wire

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 27 August 2004 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe it'll be full of lumiere's moon maidens, but now all old and crone-y and dispensing wisdom

― g--ff (gcannon), Friday, 27 August 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

interestingly a google img srch for 'lumiere' is NSFW!! try it!!

― g--ff (gcannon), Friday, 27 August 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

skeleton of a woman who died of a heart attack at 'the arrival of a train,' preserved in a glass cabinet

― g--ff (gcannon), Friday, 27 August 2004 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I saw that building! Is it right across the street from that great extra-cheap chinese place?

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 27 August 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

uh haha sean this is chinatown we're talking about!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 27 August 2004 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

(meaning there are a lot of restaurants fitting that description there)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 27 August 2004 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

wow pulling a building like that off the market in the middle of the condo invasion is some kind of saintly madness!! you've so got to try to do a screening there now!!

also "demolition by neglect" is such a great and useful term

― jones (actual), Friday, 27 August 2004 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I want to move to canada.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 27 August 2004 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

also "demolition by neglect" is such a great and useful term

sounds a bit like a lifetime movie

― amateur!!st, Friday, 27 August 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

ANother great building in Mtl is what is now (or at least was a few years ago) Cinema L'Amour, which was once a vaudeville theatre, and the place where Houdini took the punch to the gut that killed him a few days later!

― Huck, Friday, 27 August 2004 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

i tht that story was apocryphal

― amateur!!st, Friday, 27 August 2004 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

for montrealer's - have you seen the refurbished movie theatah on Bleury just up from MusiquePlus (I think it's the Imperial) it's so swank and fabulous now. (i think it's one of longest running theatre's in north america.)

― Anthony (Plato Guy), Friday, 27 August 2004 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know. BUt Cinema L'Amour WAS a vaudeville theatre. I've been inside. It's probably the nicest placed I've ever jer...

― Huck, Friday, 27 August 2004 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

i saw the documentary Chicken Hawks at the Cinema L'Amour. an excellent venue for a disturbing film.

― Anthony (Plato Guy), Friday, 27 August 2004 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, I love that building! S1ocki, you should write a story on it and get inside that way. And I can be your, er, photographer/research assistant. I saw that the Bleury theatre was being refurbished but haven't seen the finished job - but what plays there? I wish more stuff regularly went on at the Rialto, b/c it's really lovely inside. Anyway, yaay for Mtl architecture!

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 27 August 2004 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw Meet the Feebles at a porn theatre at Main&7th in Vancouver. A disturbing venue for a disturbing film. Shudder.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 27 August 2004 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Fantasia the Asian film festival always plays at the Bleury st theatre. The rest of teh year i'm not sure. but i am pretty sure they are part of the current film fest (Cinema du Monde).

The Rialto is no longer a cinema, it's now a venue for things like live bands and circuit parties. (Actually i don't know about the live bands part but im certain about the circuit parties cuz i nearly made it to one).

is there a thread about which films would be particularly disturbing to see in a porno theatre? hmmmm

― Anthony (Plato Guy), Friday, 27 August 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

There's this theatre in NDG, on Sherbrooke just west of Decarie xpress, that I often wonder about. It's never been open to my knowledge (but I've only lived here two years.)

(yeah, A, awesome thread idea.)

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 27 August 2004 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

my co-worker says he used to go there as a kid. it was called cinema 5. old classic style theatre - balcony, lots of trimming and chandaliers. They should reopen it.

Do you know if the Snowdon (1920s style theatre on Decarie) is open?

― Anthony (Plato Guy), Friday, 27 August 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

i think it would be pretty depressing to see a porno in a porno theater.

― amateur!!st, Friday, 27 August 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

the cinema l'amour is indeed beautiful & horrible inside. i had a friend who used to work there, she kept a very amusing & disturbing diary that she let us read.

the cinema imperial on bleury was built in 1913! i've been inside the newly-reno'ed building and it is lovely although maybe a little TOO swank in the lobby/bathroom areas. still i kinda miss the seediness of the old imperial. but i'm glad it's being preserved, and i hope l0sique & co will allow it to be used year-round like it used to, not just for shitty world film festival screenings. (also fantasia has sadly not played there for a couple of years due to the annoyances of dealing with the wff people)

as for the ndg theatre, that's the cinema v, which has its own storied history.

in tragic local news last year the old york theatre (the last "airstream deco" theatre in n america), was torn down for more concordia crappiness.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 27 August 2004 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

i believe the snowdon is now a bingo hall or some such thing.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 27 August 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

uh haha sean this is chinatown we're talking about!

Doh, yeah, kinda makes sense. I'm trying to remember who recommended a restaurant there...it's just inside the gate, about three or four doors down on the west side. I gorged! Yay!

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 27 August 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

It's owned by Don Cherry!

Speaking of Concordia crapiness, that's where the Fantasia Festival have been playing the past two summers. Sucks, 'cause the screen is about ten seats wide so you have a 6% chance of getting a "good" seat.

― alex in montreal, Friday, 27 August 2004 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

is the Don Cherry in the story the self-same man about town who dresses like a pimp and talks about hockey (?) on CBC

― Anthony (Plato Guy), Friday, 27 August 2004 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it's just an unfortunate coincidence. I shudder at the thought of Don Cherry The Pimp owning anything in Montreal, let alone a historical building.

― alex in montreal, Friday, 27 August 2004 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

the non-porn movie in porn movie theatre thread has been launched to international acclaim:

What non-p0rn movies would be more disturbing if viewed in a p0rn theatre

― Anthony Johnson (Plato Guy), Friday, 27 August 2004 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Montreal also had the first theatre designed solely for film showings: The Ouimetoscope (on St. Catherine St. E.).

― Guymauve (Guymauve), Friday, 27 August 2004 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

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