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The movie house reopened under new ownership in 1978 and operated on and off showing second-runs of current movies at bargain prices until about 2000, according to Courier-News reports.
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Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026
It had been converted into a studio by Jim and Estelle from the bones of a movie house.
—Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 14 Apr. 2026
CinemaSFbay, the nonprofit that operates the Balboa, Vogue and 4 Star theaters in San Francisco, revealed that the indie movie house’s 100th anniversary celebration is scheduled for April 18.
—G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2026
And that’s why films like Hamnet deserve a theatrical release — not just releasing it into the world with clusters of five or six people sitting around a living room watching television, but altogether in the great unknown of a dark movie house.
—Scott Feinberg, HollywoodReporter, 29 Jan. 2026
The show is fittingly given a live theater setting, with the characters working in a Depression-era movie house.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 12 Jan. 2026
The Lyric Theater, which was built in the 1920s as a silent movie house, regularly hosts plays, musicals, and performances from big-name talent in its grand, 500-seat theater.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 1 Dec. 2025
By 2023, Berkeley’s last downtown movie house, the 90-year-old United Artists Theater shuttered its doors for good as part of a series of closures by Cineworld, a company with theaters across the world.
—Sierra Lopez, Mercury News, 23 Nov. 2025
Come for the movies, get bumped into by the several ghosts who are said to inhabit the Art Deco movie house that was built in 1937.
—Keith Sharon, Nashville Tennessean, 30 Oct. 2025
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Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026
It had been converted into a studio by Jim and Estelle from the bones of a movie house.
—Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 14 Apr. 2026
CinemaSFbay, the nonprofit that operates the Balboa, Vogue and 4 Star theaters in San Francisco, revealed that the indie movie house’s 100th anniversary celebration is scheduled for April 18.
—G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2026
And that’s why films like Hamnet deserve a theatrical release — not just releasing it into the world with clusters of five or six people sitting around a living room watching television, but altogether in the great unknown of a dark movie house.
—Scott Feinberg, HollywoodReporter, 29 Jan. 2026
The show is fittingly given a live theater setting, with the characters working in a Depression-era movie house.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 12 Jan. 2026
The Lyric Theater, which was built in the 1920s as a silent movie house, regularly hosts plays, musicals, and performances from big-name talent in its grand, 500-seat theater.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 1 Dec. 2025
By 2023, Berkeley’s last downtown movie house, the 90-year-old United Artists Theater shuttered its doors for good as part of a series of closures by Cineworld, a company with theaters across the world.
—Sierra Lopez, Mercury News, 23 Nov. 2025
Come for the movies, get bumped into by the several ghosts who are said to inhabit the Art Deco movie house that was built in 1937.
—Keith Sharon, Nashville Tennessean, 30 Oct. 2025
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