A love letter to the cathedral where dreams flickered in 35mm.
When Brooklyn's Kings Theater -- one of five "Wonder Theaters" in the New York area -- closed its doors in 1977, the neighborhood mourned. In a series of interviews, local aficionados of the palace as well as its projectionist, its organist, and former employees, reminisce about the Kings and its charmed days gone by.
Acting
Eli Wallach's velvet narration guides like a ghost
Production
1977 footage of the dying theater is devastating
Director
Christian Blackwood
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Kings Theater sat abandoned for nearly 40 years before a $95 million restoration reopened it in 2015.
The 'Wonder Theaters' were Loew's 1920s answer to movie palace inflation—five cathedrals of celluloid excess in NYC and Jersey.
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