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The Castro Theatre In The News |
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Box Office A Salute to San Francisco's Legendary Castro Theatre
The City's Street, The City's Cinema - With the release of Gus Van Sant's award-winning Milk, San Francisco's Castro Theatre solidifies its place in history
"Known beyond the confinement of the Bay Area, San Francisco's Castro Theatre is an emblem of the city's celebrated diversity. 'The Castro Upright-or what some people call the 'blade'-is recognizable the world over,' Bill Longen, the Castro's events producer and coordinator, says of the theatre's vertical neon logo."
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VIA Movie Palaces
The Castro Theatre
"There may be no neighborhood theater in America more striking --or more vibrant a part of the community it serves--than the Castro Theatre. With its bright white exterior dominated by a large mullioned window, it resembles a Mexican cathedral more than a movie house, and to some people its role in the community extends beyond entertainment."
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SOMA The Film Issue
Slick Silver Screens
"There's something about Art Deco that elicits a desire to wear velour slippers, a quilted smoking jacket and clamp a cigar tight between your teeth. Or better, hit the town in an all-white suit, matching white bowler, a silver tipped cane in one arm and a girl in white furs on the other...That's right, Art Deco is pimp. And [one of] the pimpest places in the Bay Area to check out what's happening on the silver screen [is] San Francisco's Castro Theatre."
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San Francisco Opera 2007-08 Season
San Francisco Opera at the Movies
"This spring, San Francisco Opera and The Bigger Picture partnered to present a series of four operas in more than 120 movie theaters across this country-- including the historic Castro Theatre--marking the first time that any opera company has utilized the Hollywood-feature film quality digital cinema format."
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The Chronicle
Savoring the big - really big - screen
"As a kid in Philadelphia in the 1950s, Bill Longen had free access to city theaters his family had investments in, so he grew up seeing countless blockbuster films in movie palaces.
Sitting in a balcony, watching the road-show versions, he had joyful experiences tht would influence his life."
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San Francisco The Venue
Praising our pleasure palace
"OK, OK, we all love the Castro Theatre-the iconic marquee, the organist on the hydraulic lift, the 45-foot-wide screen. And this month, as the holiday season hits its peak, the theater has wisely assembled a lineup guaranteed to keep spirits light and bright: six screen-icon double features to give us our fill of Rosalind Russell, Clark Gable, and others; a marathon one-day viewing of the Lord of the Rings trilogy; and bless them, a Dolly Parton triple feature..."
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The New York Times The Arts
Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt, Nights are Noir in Fog City
"The orange and blue neon lights of the Castro Theatre shone blurrily on the damp asphalt beneath the crisscrossing catenary wires of the streetcars. The words on the marquee in the Friday night gloom, read: 'Marsha Hunt: In Person.'
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96 Hours Castro Do-Re-Mi
Sing-along: Wannabe von Trapps, now's your chance to shine. Don't forget the costumes.
"When the Castro Theatre screens the 1965 classic 'Sound of Music' this weekend, don't be embarrassed if you start to sing along. That's the idea. The words to the songs will appear as subtitles so even the lyrically challenged can belt out their do-rem-mi's like a von Trapp or recount a few of their favorite things with Julie Andrews."
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7x7 San Francisco's Premier Magazine
Balancing Acts - Four movers and shakers share their secrets for finding that most elusive of indulgences - serenity.
The Moviegoer - Larry Bain, restauranteur
"So how does he wind down? A film and a tub of popcorn at the Castro Theatre. 'There's nothing like a Fred Astaire flick from the 1930s,' he says, 'and no better distraction than Raging Bull. I try to go [to the Castro] every couple of months. It keeps me centered and helps me forget all of my worries.'"
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Where San Francisco Bay Area
A vintage setting for vintage film Castro Theatre
"Quite possibly the finest place in the world to see a film, the historic Castro Theatre, built in 1922 remains a symbol of the golden age of cinema design. Its artful combination of deco elements includes a facade that resembles a Mexican cathedral, while the walls inside the 1,400-seat movie palace are covered by murals portraying classic Greco-Roman motifs. The program schedule includes independent, foreign and classic filsm along with film festivals, and live music on the restored Wurlitzer pipe organ precedes most screenings. "
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Entertainment Weekly TOP 10 OF THEATERS DOING IT RIGHT
3 Castro Theatre
"(San Francisco) With a massive single screen, balcony, and sonorous
Wurlitzer organ, this is the very definition of a "movie palace." Its
rep programming is excellent (70mm and silent-film festivals, a series of double
features pitting Bette Davis movies against Joan Crawford films)."
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