There, guests can sample 39 varieties of all-New York craft beers from the tap, or try a themed cocktail, like the Napoleon Death Mask. The pieces, their frozen expressions safe within glass-lined cases, inspired the theater’s House of Wax bar. “It’s a lot of famous people from the 1800s…including some German royalty,” he said. League, who likes to make the lobby areas unique, was proud to show off the Brooklyn venue’s most unusual attraction: an assortment of death masks and medical curiosities from a late-19th century German wax museum.
In the spirit of old-time showmanship, Alamo cinema also offers patrons a lot of eccentric diversion before they reach their seats. “It’s a rising tide: The more well-programmed theaters we have in New York, the better for all of us.” “I’m happy to finally have them in town,” saidĭirector of repertory programming for the Quad Cinema in Greenwich Village, which is due to reopen early next year. Specialty programs include the opening weekend’s “In the Mood for Gore,” a collaboration with New York’s Subway Cinema with Asian horror films from the 1980s and ’90s, in 35mm prints supplied by the American Genre Film Archive. Opening week first-run attractions include mainstream comics-inspired movies such as Marvel’s “Doctor Strange” alongside more niche-driven fare, including “We Are X,” a documentary about a Japanese rock music phenomenon. To revive his “Shouting at the Screen” program, featuring live commentary to blaxploitation classics. 4, as special guest for a screening of “Heavenly Creatures.” Ms.
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Actress Melanie Lynskey will inaugurate the latter series on Nov. She plans to launch new series such as “Fist City,” devoted to vintage and cult action movies, and “Cherry Bomb,” a celebration of punk and “bad girl” themes. Cacioppo, who joined the company after running the popular screening program at the now-defunct 92Y Tribeca. “We want to make it local, as much as possible,” said Ms. It will also have plenty of Alamo irreverence-a corporate signature-including the imaginative preshow video montages tailored to a movie’s theme and aggressive preshow PSAs targeting talkers and texters.Īlamo’s creative manager in New York, looks to expand on Drafthouse’s revival and repertory concepts such as “Terror Tuesday” and “Weird Wednesday” by inviting New York superfans, writers and filmmakers to introduce selections. Its smallest room is intended as a micro-cinema for showing independent fare, such as the “Uncle Kent 2,” an offbeat comedy from Brooklyn indie distributor Factory 25, which opens Nov.
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