Pioneering

Not this week, but next, we're opening
LIBERTY STREET: ALIVE AT GROUND ZERO.

Yes, another September 11 movie.

But no, not just another September 11 movie.

Check out Phil Hall's review in FILM THREAT.

Opens January 12.

Tickets available on the Pioneer front page

"In Church only one drama is performed and always one and the same, year in, year out, while in the cinema next door you will be shown the Easters of heathen, Jew and Christian, in their historic sequence, with their similarity of ritual. The cinema amuses, educates, strikes the imagination by images, and liberates you from the need of crossing the church door. The cinema is a great competitor not only of the public-house, but of the Church."
- Lev Trotsky, "Vodka, the Church, and the Cinema." The Film Factory.

On a relatively quiet street, Third Street, between two relatively noisy avenues, Avenue A and Avenue B, in New York City's Lower East Side, within the part also known as the East Village, lies a little movie theater. It has an unassuming storefront, with a little neon sign over the doorway. Sometimes a sandwich board sign stands before the theater, telling what will be showing this evening. Many have walked by the theater for years without knowing it is a theater. But then they discover the riches within: documentaries, schlock, dramatic films, world cinema, neighborhood movies, some great films, some decent films, some poor films, and scores of personal appearances.

This is not one of those big alienated multiplexes. This is a small, beautiful theater, with an atmosphere that is, ideally, on a more human level, as well as seriously fun.

This is the Pioneer Theater.

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