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The Godfather. Photo courtesy Photofest |
And now, back to the future. “After we launched the BAM Rose Cinemas as well as BAMcinématek, our repertory film program, to tremendous success circa 1997,” says BAM President Karen Brooks Hopkins, “we learned that the BAM audience is also a film audience, in a big way. The Steinberg Screen in many ways is our gift to them, a space unlike any other in Brooklyn which will enable us to do more, whether it be host an entire orchestra to accompany a film with live music, or throw a film premiere in one of the most beautiful spaces in the city.” (Hint: Ryan Gosling this way comes). With plans for concessions that incorporate local purveyors, tapping into the flourishing Brooklyn food scene, the Steinberg Screen at BAM Harvey is sure to become a destination for everyone from film connoisseurs drawn by innovative, site-specific BAMcinématek programming to locals looking to see the latest 3D summer smash in a blockbuster setting.
The Steinberg Screen makes its official debut on June 19, the opening night of BAMcinématek’s annual BAMcinemaFest, with the highly anticipated New York debut of director David Lowery’s Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, starring Casey Affleck, Ben Foster, and Rooney Mara, with director and cast in attendance. From June 29—July 3, it will be the exclusive East Coast premiere venue for Hitchcock 9, a historical series of digital restorations of the nine surviving silent films from the master of suspense, accompanied live by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra, a chamber quintet dedicated to reviving the silent film tradition. “Hitchcock 9 is the ultimate example of an already incredible series that will be immeasurably enhanced by playing on the Steinberg Screen at the BAM Harvey,” says BAMcinématek Director Gabriele Caroti. “To have the quintet play in a space designed for live performance, and to see these films in a space that existed when they were originally made, has incredible emotional and artistic resonance.”
GREAT MOMENTS IN THE HISTORY OF THE BAM Harvey Theater
1904 / The Majestic Theater, with 1700 seats, opens with a stage production of The Wizard of Oz
1904—33 / Many theater productions were presented at the Majestic, including some being considered for Broadway
1945—68 / Changing fortunes led the Majestic to present vaudeville, burlesque, film, and pornography
1968 / The Majestic closes
1987 / BAM President and Executive Producer Harvey Lichtenstein sought a venue for Peter Brook’s The Mahabharata, noticed the boarded up Majestic, and entered through the second-story window via a ladder. Brook loved it, and it was renovated to hold 874 seats by Hugh Hardy and opened in time for the 1987 Next Wave Festival
1987 to present / Numerous popular and critically lauded productions are presented at the theater, including three seasons of The Bridge Project, Streetcar Named Desire (with Cate Blanchett), King Lear (with Ian McKellen), and Paul Simon’s The Capeman
1988 / 651 Arts was created, focusing on culture of the African diaspora
1999 / Upon Lichtenstein’s retirement, the theater is renamed the BAM Harvey
2012 / New seats and stage entrances are added
2013 / The Steinberg Screen is installed, expanding the house to cinema capability, including 5D
This is really super, but what does 5D even mean? Mind Blown!
ReplyDelete5D means it can screen 2D AND 3D movies. Mind pieced back together!
ReplyDeleteyeah! what does mean when you say 5d movies?
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