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Warner Theatre, 147 High Street, Morgantown, West Virginia. The Warner Theater is a historic Art Deco movie theater. Opened June 12, 1931, it was designed by architect John Eberson, whose theaters included the since-demolished Colonial and Astor in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Calvert in Washington, D.C., and the Capitol in Chicago, Illinois; and the extant Cinema le Grand Rex in Paris, France, the Capitol in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, the Dixie in Staunton, Virginia, and the American in The Bronx, New York City. Built at a cost of $400,000, it featured a 50-foot vertical marquee illuminated with over 6,000 light bulbs of different colors, although the vertical marquee has since been removed, and many of the original light bulbs on the rest of the marquee were replaced with neon strips.
The Round Table Corporation purchased the theater in 2004 with the intention of restoring it to its original condition, though the originally single-screen theater already became a multiplex in the early 1970s. After 79 years of business, The Warner Theater remains intact but closed its doors on September 5, 2010.
The wooden multiplex shelf-unit houses all the ornaments, and keeps the mattresses upright during the day-time.
Seated against the wall, Auntie Erin ( who donated the table ) and two of MhelJhon's younger brothers, Patrick and Destiny . . . and Ella (with tongue-out ! ) and Pyra I'm sure you know.
The little TV is my old Bush-14-inch CRT, with a VHS video-slot.
They are amazed to watch British Trash-TV . . . and can't believe the appalling standard of our so-called 'entertainment' !
Camoflauge, 1987
Four from a portfolio of eight screenprints, composition (each): 38 x 38" (96.5 x 96.5 cm)
Andy Warhol, American, 1928-1987
Printmaking, and in particular screenprint, was the basic medium for Andy Warhol's celebrated work on canvas and paper. While a prize-winning commercial artist in the 1950s, he devised a printing process of blotting outline drawings in ink from one surface to another.
Warhol did not participate in the collaborative printshop system established in America in the 1960s, but his work contributed decisively to what has been characterized as a "print boom" at that time. Through the course of his career, he made nearly eight hundred printed images on paper, about half published in traditional editions. He was also a surprisingly experimental printmaker, issuing hundreds of trial proofs and unique variants. The compositions that make up Camouflage, his last portfolio, constitute a playful commentary on abstraction. Through manipulation of scale and color from sheet to sheet, Warhol alters the visual impact of the military fabric used for concealment. In examples on canvas, he also superimposes his face, linking self-portraiture with disguise.
Andy Warhol's Camoflauge was on display in the special exhibition, Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now from November 21, 2007
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The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) was founded in 1929 and is often recognized as the most influential museum of modern art in the world. Over the course of the next ten years, the Museum moved three times into progressively larger temporary quarters, and in 1939 finally opened the doors of its midtown home, located on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in midtown.
MoMA's holdings include more than 150,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, architectural models and drawings, and design objects. Highlights of the collection inlcude Vincent Van Gogh's The Starry Night, Salvador Dali's The Persisence of Memory, Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiseels d'Avignon and Three Musicians, Claude Monet's Water Lilies, Piet Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie, Paul Gauguin's The Seed of the Areoi, Henri Matisse's Dance, Marc Chagall's I and the Village, Paul Cezanne's The Bather, Jackson Pollack's Number 31, 1950, and Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans. MoMA also owns approximately 22,000 films and four million film stills, and MoMA's Library and Archives, the premier research facilities of their kind in the world, hold over 300,000 books, artist books, and periodicals, and extensive individual files on more than 70,000 artists.
Typical United Artists 80's multiplex. Opened in 1986 or 1987 and closed in 2006, replaced by a newer theater at the other end of the mall.
Multiformes, multiplex, multicouches ....
Une expression texturée très personnel à partir de ma photographie de T-rex.
Je pourrais écrire des lignes et des lignes sur ce que j'y vois mais quel importance si en deux secondes ont "zappe" en ce disant bah ce n'est pas de la photo, encore une texture de mauvais goût ou pire encore ... j'aime les couleurs !. :-)
Seulement voila je suis une tortue qui n'en finit pas d'agoniser dans la gueule du squale .......... et j'aime cela. (sic)
RM
11.01.11
Gestionnaire photo utilisé : ACDSee system.
Scott Cinemas, Bridgwater. Opened in September 2022, replacing the two screen operation in the rear portion of the former Odeon Cinema. The 7 screen multiplex was designed by Unick Consulting in conjunction with Ferco Seating. The auditoria range in size from the luxury 12 seater VIP screen to the largest screen 3 with dolby sound.
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Bridgwater, Somerset, South West England - Scott Cinemas, Northgate Yard
September 2025
"SMALL WONDER WE SHOULD CHOOSE THIS MEDIUM...Human Congregation, Seated In The Dark Of Theaters, Virtually Hushed, Receptive: Perfect..."
--Alien Anonymous
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POV: FIRST CONTACT Bold-Stroked...
SO: you're in a theater, 40 minutes into, say, a 'romantic comedy'...
SUDDENLY: PALEOLITHIC cave painters appear on screen @ work on the most breathtaking mural ever seen...no explanation...an ineffable gravitas, a virtually palpable sense of history alive, including even (widely reported) the scent of smoke and human sweat...
FOR 12 INEXPLICABLE MINUTES...speaking in a language never heard by modern humanity, one artist even apparently making a joke that elicits loud collective laughter echoing through invisible chambers of an unknown cave (the location soon after discovered, further removing the prospect of a grand hoax & emphasizing a non-human intelligence behind it)
...SOME of the (unknowingly global) audience is intrigued and even mesmerized, others, after a minute or two, irritated, descend across time-zones (but mostly PST, West Coast U.S) to multiplex lobbies to complain, demand an explanation, what'-s-this-TRAILER doing interrupting what-I-Paid-To-SEE, etc...
WELL who knew? it's FIRST CONTACT
...but nothing follows for weeks
...as the world rocks in the vast roll
of a wholly unforeseen See Change...
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HUMANITY'S FIRST COLLECTIVE OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE?
FOR THE RECORD:
"...THE WORLD WILL BE BESIDE ITSELF--
THERE WILL BE FEAR...SHOCK...MYSTERY...AWE...REVERENCE...HILARITY...
NEW RELIGIOUS DIVIDES, THRILLING SOLIDARITY, ASTONISHING 'FAULT-LINES' THROUGH EVERY ESTABLISHED POWER-BASE,
ROBUST & UNPREDICTABLE SOCIAL UPHEAVAL
ACROSS THE GLOBE.
MEANWHILE, INCREASINGLY 'FORWARD-LEANING' 'COMPETITION' AMONG HOLLYWOOD'S MOST ILLUSTRIOUS "CANDIDATES" FOR "DIRECTOR'S CUT"
WILL REDEFINE OLD FRIENDSHIPS & RIVALRIES...
AND YES, HOW COULD IT BE OTHERWISE?--
THERE WILL BE DINOSAURS..."
--Wyatt Matturs
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A NOTE ON TITLE & FORMAT OF "ALIEN ANONYMOUS"
E.T. 'MEME-GRAB' OF "ANONYMOUS" HACKTIVIST GROUP "MESSAGING"
[SILENT TEXT, MINUS VOICE-OVER] "SUGGESTS AN "UNSETTLING" EARTH-CYBERCULTURE SAVVY"
Known Former Members Of "Anonymous" Intensely Interrogated For Suspected "Alien Connectivity" Are Finally Released As Being
"In The Same Dark As The Rest Of Us. . ."
[Not Surprisingly, However, There's A Talk-Radioactive Half-Life Factor Not About To Give It uP...]
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ALIEN ANONYMOUS OFFER TO ACADEMY [AMPAS--Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]
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ACADEMY ACCEPTANCE: www.flickr.com/photos/29101747@N07/9070413572/
POTUS v. PAMPAS --"Talks "Frank". . . www.flickr.com/photos/29101747@N07/8611695316/
TRUTHY IN THE SKY w/ DIAMONDS: bit.ly/11UmtT6
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WHAT IS "CONSCIOUSNESS", THAT YOU ARE "MINDFUL" OF "IT"?
FOR NOW UNSEEN AS SILENCE ITSELF, WE REACH THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY
(UPCLOSE &}...SUPERNATURALLY "PERSONAL"...
ALIEN ANONYMOUS--PITCH & ROLL--A SEMI-GRAPHIC NOVELLA Produced In A Reality That Includes {WAIT-For-it} ..."ETERNITY!"
--Random-Sequence Episode 'Flashcards' In The Downscroll
FACEBOOK PAGED @ PARALLEL UNIVERSAL PRESENTS ALIEN ANONYMOUS Movie.Series.Reality www.facebook.com/pages/Parallel-Universal-Presents-Alien-...
FLICKR POOLED @ PARALLEL UNIVERSAL PRESENTS: ALIEN ANONYMOUS www.flickr.com/groups/2227183@N25
PAUSE-AS-NEEDED, CONTEMPLATE AS SPIRIT MOVES:
ALL-IN FLOW-GO---FULL-SCREEN SLIDE SHOW: www.flickr.com/groups/2227183@N25/pool/show/
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THE TIME OF "RIPPLES" IS OVER. We Are Here In Part To "Roll-&-Surf" Your Collective Brain Waves, As It Whir..."Humalien Symbiosis", Your Future Historians, Having Coined It, Will Understand A Term Of "Science"--And Of "Art"...Hands-On, Mind-Around, By Sudden HEART. COME With Us, GO With Us:
Equally Glorious: Differently Infinite. . .
@ArtistGeneral
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NOTE: TWEAKAGE OF WHAT FOLLOWS IN PROGRESS (Version 2.0...ComingSoon...)
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--HOLLYWOULD REPORTER:
"...IN NO NEED OF POSTHUMOUS LIMELIGHT", MARK TWAIN graciously accepts
cutting-room-floor-fall for his featured 'Dinner Party' in ALIEN ANONYMOUS as "First Contact"
Conceding that "smoke trumps mirrors--the gritty universality of the new scene better carries the day for humanity in this indeed majestically distinctive film...besides, I expect the opportunity to recur in a "sequel"--that's what you call it, right? or a "series" in that Pandora's Home Box Office Thing? Nitflix? Exactly! Whatever..."
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ALIEN ANONYMOUS~RATED VO (Vividly Original)--GUARANTEED: CHEESY-CLICHE,
BUG-EYED-ALIEN-FREE!
"OVERRIDING" 30K+ Movie Screens, In Collective Global Simultaneity, Disabling All In-House Communication, Phones, iPads, Etc., Offlined: For 12 UNEXPLAINED MINUTES--Followed By A Silent Text Message--ALIEN ANONYMOUS (Per Se: Invisibly Silent, Save For A 'Tone' Before & After On-Screen Text Messages)
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FIRST CONTACT: THE INAUGURAL GLOBAL SCREEN-HACK
A flawless "capture" of cave painters, clearly speaking a language never written, heard or imagined by modern humanity. Faces torchlit, concentration intense, momentarily broken: echos roll from a brief gale of laughter seemingly in response to something the wide-eyed youngest of the four says. A female voice is heard approaching, with another torch-bearing male, a girl and boy, appearing around 9 and 12 years old.
They have charcoal, feathers, moss in hand. The eldest, maybe mid-forties, inhales deeply, then exhales, as if releasing himself through the sidelong downstroke he stretched for, stubbled-feather brush clotted with pigment, the glistening flank of a larger-than-life bison stands suddenly clear, every stroke audible over the stone, you can hear the soft but distinct huff & puff of the woman's breath blowing soot through a reed into an outline of the girl's hand held to the cave wall. She whispers something in her ear, the girl grins. Then the boy's hand is placed. In theaters everywhere many swear to "experiencing" a smell of bittersweet smoke.
This Scene, both digitally and in film-stock, inexplicably "embeds" in the copy of whatever movie it interrupted, as if it belonged there, allowing endless analysis in the weeks and months that follow, as well as the record uber-viral multi-billion online view count by midweek.
The day after First Contact--Easter Sunday (Christian speculation is especially tweaked, urgent & "confused") near-invisible & barely legible in the palm of a hand print, as if scratched there: what turns out to be GPS coordinates.
These are followed to an undiscovered cave in an unlikely location, three magnificent 'chambers', full of the most accomplished and oldest paleolithic art ever seen.
Dated at 44,000+ years old, computer analysis verifies that every stroke that glistened "live" onscreen in the A.A "OverRide" exactly matches the faded, long-dried pigment of the end result, just now discovered all these ages later, hence further dramatizing the non-human origin of what a now-forever-altered world recently witnessed--
gathered in motley clots of hundreds at a time, by the million: "full-spectrum humanity", having taken pains to sit together, receptively quiet in the dark, waiting for what the Big Screen will bring:
demonstrating why ALIEN ANONYMOUS chose this medium, founded in Hollywood, now, conveniently enough for their undisclosed purpose, among modern humanity's favorite pastimes.
Lines so long have never been seen before this, for anything playing. Because word is out--things are "happening" to people who sat through that first 12 minutes, who witnessed history made.
Some who entered their movie in wheelchairs..."walked" out.
(And Not because they didn't like it...)
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WINGNUT NATION "BESIDE ITSELF" AT RECENT ALIEN ANONYMOUS "OFFER"
"How On EARTH Can This Be Happening?--
NOT A Leader, NOT Even Our Speaker Of The House "Allowed'! No, NO, It'll Be Some Liberal Weeny Hollywood DIRECTOR "Chosen"--By The A-CAD-UH-ME"--Like An OSCAR... bit.ly/10q8ajN
For Solitary 'Face-Time' With This WHATEVER, WHOever, From WHERE-ever "Alien ANONYMOUS" Invasion--And THEN, Insult-To-INjury--Getting To "Choose" 3 Hours
From "The Quan-Tum Archives" Of Earth History! "Billions Of Years", Perfectly "Recorded". Do The MATH On THAT One, Folks! How Do Ya Get BILLIONS Out Of 6 THOUSAND Years?
YES, We HAVE Been "INVADED!" And They CAN, And HAVE, As We've All Seen And Heard TWICE Now, "OverRide" Twitter With Ill-Gotten Video-Streams Of "Power Corrupted"--
PRIVATE CONVERSATIONS Among MAKERS, Folks--Leaders, Movers And Shakers! So Now, So NOW--Anyone Who's "Somebody" Is Afraid To Speak FREELY! And What Does Washington DO About It? NOTHING! NADA! And Look, I Don't CARE If Some Precious Few Who Entered Theaters In Wheel-Chairs "Walked" Out After Seeing One Of These, These So-Called "OverRides" of Theirs...
The DEVIL Couldn't Do This? Read Your Scripture, Folks...
And BTW Have You SEEN The PR Roll-Out Of Hollywoodies Vying For This GOD-forsaken "DIRECTOR'S CUT" Thing?!--SHAMEless! Makes Chopped Liver Of An "Oscar". They Want It So Bad WE Can Taste It...'
.--Rush Limjones, Talk Radio Host
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PLAN B (In Case Of "Very Possible" Movie-Industrial-Mogultard 'Recklessly-Over-Cautious' BUTTheadery):
FLICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN ANNOUNCED FOR 'ALIEN ANONYMOUS' PROJECT. HELP US REACH OUR BLOCKBUSTER PRODUCTION GOAL OF $200,000,000!
"NO 'JACK-THE-GIANT-SLAYER' HERE! A-LIST DIRECTORS:
SOME OF YOU--ARE--RIGHT NOW--(SAD BUT TRUE)
"SERIOUSLY CONSIDERING" PROJECTS FAR LESS VISIONARY THAN 'ALIEN ANONYMOUS', ALREADY BLOWING THROUGH OR GEARING UP TO GO THROUGH TENS & HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS ON FILMS DESTINED FOR SHORT-TERM CULTURAL MEMORY OR VIRTUAL NATIONAL AMNESIA...
HOWEVER: ONE OF YOU WILL "GET" ALIEN ANONYMOUS. AND MAKE IT UNFORGETTABLE, AS YOU KNOW YOU CAN, AS YOUR HEART, MIND & GUT WILL TELL YOU, VIRTUALLY ON CONTACT WITH THIS TREATMENT: HERE. NOW.
Secure The Rights, Fool!
And You'll Thank Your Luckiest Stars For The Rest Of Your Career."
--Wyatt Matturs (CEO) CHUTZPAHDUCTIONS, PROUD To Carry The TORCH For AGP (Artist General Projections) And ALIEN ANONYMOUS!
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Michael Masley is a Culture-Jamming, Brain-storm-driven Creactivist, multi-tasking in Music, Poetry, Film Concepts [ALIEN ANONYMOUS] Progressive Politics. AKA the Artist General [GOOGLE]
His life is the subject of this film:
SHORT CLIPS FROM ART OFFICIALLY FAVORED
A Coming-Soon Docufeaturomedy Directed By Martin Yernazian:
MUSIC www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJsV52_2E_s
WORD www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJEDR8j29xc
ARTIST GENERAL www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz2vgdcVW-k
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Forest Cinema, Walthamstow. Opened as the Empire in November 2014, this was the first purpose built complex for the circuit, previous sites having been take-overs. It was designed by Pollard, Thomas, Edwards Architects, who also designed the rest of 'The Scene' building. It has 9 screens, including an Impact Screen, and a large 309 seat auditorium (Screen 9) with a vast curved screen. The Empire circuit went into administration in 2023, and the multiplex was closed and became badly vandalised before a new operator (PD Management Ltd) was found. It reopened as the Forest Cinema in September 2024 and has proved very successful. Two screens are current closed awaiting repair, fittings having had to be reused to repair damage in other areas before opening.
London Borough of Waltham Forest, Walthamstow, North London, England - Forest (Empire) Cinemas, High Street / Hoe Street
July 2025
The first performance is on Friday June 27th and last summer performance will be Saturday June 28thwww.multiplexdance.org An Evening of Interactive Digital Dance Theatre Celebrating Equality. MULTIPLEX DANCE will feature “Threshold,” a solo performed by MXD Artistic Director Chad Michael Hall."With each step we take as a society toward marriage equality, we in the LGBTQ community grapple wi...
The double bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis f. multiplex) is a rare thing. The plants sold in general commerce all come from one plant found, according to an account in Linc and Laura Foster's classic book Cuttings From A Rock Garden , in the spring of 1917 in a woods in Dayton, Ohio. Mr. von Webern who had purchased the woods and found the double bloodroot, fortunately sent out a couple of the plants; the original colony apparently eventually died out, but he had sent one plant to the Montreal Botanical Garden, which in turn distributed it into commerce. A few other double flowered bloodroot plants have since been found; in the southeast and perhaps in New England, as well as a pink flowered single. I don't know if any of the other doubles found have had as many extra petals as Mr. von Webern's plant. The doubles are very expensive, because they don't set seed so must (slowly) be propagated vegetatively. However, the $75 price I see charged by a certain well-known nursery is ridiculous.
This 9 screen cinema opened in December 1995. Originally owned and operated by MGM, it was then operated by Virgin, then UGC and Cineworld.
during the second One-day International between West Indies Women and England Women on Monday, October 10, 2016 at the Trelawny Multiplex.
Photo by WICB Media/Athelstan Bellamy
www.axiomestates.com/real-estate/properties.php?city=Kolk... Town Rajarhat&property=Sunny Fort&curr=inr
Designed by the renowned Prabir Mitra, Sunny Fort is located on an open expanse of New Town Rajarhat, Kolkata, (opposite the upcoming Convention Centre), in a neighbourhood that is all set to be Kolkata's focal point in terms of the real estate acitivities that are taking place. Spread across 5 acres of unblemished greenery the project will offer 2-4 BHK apartments and penthouses in 9 towers of G+7 to G+13. It's close to the buzz of restaurants, multiplexes, malls, schools and more. It is not just a habitat but a conclave of upper-crest luxury lifestyle. Sunny Fort includes a pool of facilities like community hall, indoor sports area, swimming pool, modern gymnasium, steam room, jacuzzi, yoga and meditation hall, and outdoor games. It also features home management services like grocery store, filtered water, visitor's car park space, car washing facility, etc.
Oberon Mall:
This is a 350,000 sq ft Shopping mall being promoted by M/S. Oberon Edifices, Dubai has the first ever Multiplex in it in Kochi. This is a 5 storeyed Multicomplex shopping mall with CINEMAX multiplex . The Project Management Consultants for this shopping mall is "Elhanan Management Services, Bangalore".
The Salford Quays Cannon multiplex was the 2nd in the UK when it opened its doors in December 1986. It had 8 screens and closed just after the millennium. It had been designed and built for ABC but the company changed hands before completion. A scanned image from 1988.
Arc Multiplex Cinema, Beeston. Opened in May 2021, delayed by the Covid pandemic, and designed by Leonard Design Architects as part of a larger project for Beeston Town Centre which will deliver more retail and apartments on the adjoining site. The Arc has 8 screens, all with luxury reclining seats, and two 'Hypersense' Dolby Atmos screens. The screens seat between 45 and 157 patrons, and the total capacity is just over 700. There is a small entry hall at street level, with stairs and a lift to the first floor foyer and auditoria.
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Beeston, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England - Arc Cinema, Station Road, Beeston Centre
July 2022
Very little exists today of the former works that occupied this site. See notes on image for common features found on the earlier photograph.
Historical maps and aerial image overlays available at MARIO (Maps And Related Information Online) mario.lancashire.gov.uk/
The first performance is on Friday June 27th and last summer performance will be Saturday June 28thwww.multiplexdance.org An Evening of Interactive Digital Dance Theatre Celebrating Equality. MULTIPLEX DANCE will feature “Threshold,” a solo performed by MXD Artistic Director Chad Michael Hall."With each step we take as a society toward marriage equality, we in the LGBTQ community grapple wi...
Using two 4051 multiplexer ICs I am able to simulate the electric typewriter's keyboard matrix and can control the entire functionality of this machine via the Arduino board.
This example shows the result of a tool that tries to recreate an image with the available letters on the daisy wheel. It types several layers of type over each other and also uses half-letter spacing and half-line feeds to cover more paper with carbon. The principle of this is demonstrated here: incubator.quasimondo.com/DarwinCss.html
Cette photo a été prise durant la sortie photo Multiplex #1 à Paris organisée par Phototrend
Compte rendu : phototrend.fr/2014/12/compte-rendu-de-la-premiere-sortie-...
The Guzzo des Sources 10 cinema in the les Galeries des Sources shopping centre opened in the summer of 1998.
It was the first movie theatre with some screens with stadium seating that I had ever visited, opening a year before the Famous Players Paramount (now le Cinema Banque-Scotia) in downtown Montreal, a year-and-a-half before the Famous Players Colisée in Kirkland, and a whole three years before the AMC Forum 22 multiplex in the Pepsi Forum.
It's a nice multiplex, as far as multiplexes go, but I didn't go to it that often because it was a pain-in-the-butt to get there from Sainte Anne de Bellevue by bus, as bus service up and down Sources Boulevard was very intermittent, especially in the evening. The last movie I remember seeing there was Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones, and I only saw it there because I was tagging along with one of my brother's friends who had a car.
Cinémas Guzzo is the largest independent movie theatre chain in the province of Quebec. It was founded by Angelo Guzzo, and Italian immigrant, who began his career buying up and renovating older theatres in the 1970's, and who started opening modern, state-of-the-art multiplexes under his own in the Montreal area in 1990. From what I remember reading about his business strategy, he prefers to stay out of downtown Montreal entirely, letting Famous Players/Cineplex Odeon, and AMC duke it out there, and focuses his attention on the suburbs, as well as smaller urban centres outside of Montreal.
I actually had a drop-in mass job interview at this location before it opened in 1998, but I didn't have much of a chance, because I had no job experience, my French left much to be desired, and, at the time, I used a superdeformed picture of Kiyone from the Japanese anime series Tenchi Universe as a mascot/icon on my CV to distinguish myself as a fun-loving guy, but it probably didn't look at all professional of me. I did get to meet Mr. Guzzo's son, Vincenzo Guzzo, who is executive vice-president of the chain, as he was conducting the mini-job-interviews. It's hard for me to remember a five-minute chat from 10 years ago, but he seemed cordial.
One reason why the Guzzos are especially cool in my book is that they are what I hope to be at some point in the future, should my art career ever take off to the point where this could be feasible: they are big-time Ferrari collectors, and I mean the real thing, not just scale models like I have. I think Angelo Guzzo even has a couple of actual Ferrari F1 cars. I'm 99% sure that he has one Ferrari F1 car formerly driven by Gilles Villeneuve, and I think he probably has another one that had been driven by Michael Schumacher.
I remember seeing a Cinémas Guzzo billboard at le Circuit Mont Tremblant during last year's Ferrari F430 Challenge race.
Forest Cinema, Walthamstow. Opened as the Empire in November 2014, this was the first purpose built complex for the circuit, previous sites having been take-overs. It was designed by Pollard, Thomas, Edwards Architects, who also designed the rest of 'The Scene' building. It has 9 screens, including an Impact Screen, and a large 309 seat auditorium (Screen 9) with a vast curved screen. The Empire circuit went into administration in 2023, and the multiplex was closed and became badly vandalised before a new operator (PD Management Ltd) was found. It reopened as the Forest Cinema in September 2024 and has proved very successful.
London Borough of Waltham Forest, Walthamstow, North London, England - Forest (Empire) Cinemas, High Street / Hoe Street
July 2025