Bleecker Street Cinemas
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Bleecker Street Cinema (April 3, 1960 - August 30, 1990) was an American
United States
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art house movie
Film
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theater located at 144 Bleecker Street in New York City
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, New York
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. Created by Lionel Rogosin
Lionel Rogosin
Lionel Rogosin was a maverick independent American filmmaker who helped pioneer a form of non-fiction filmmaking influenced by the traditions of Robert Flaherty and Italian neorealism.-Early life:...
for the premiere of his Come Back, Africa
Come Back, Africa
Come Back, Africa is the second feature-length film written, produced, and directed by American independent filmmaker Lionel Rogosin. The film had a profound effect on African Cinema, and remains of great historical and cultural importance as a document preserving the unique heritage of the...
, it became a landmark of Greenwich Village
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, and was well known for showing foreign, indie
Independent film
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and other offbeat movies.
François Truffaut
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referred to it as " the American Cinématheque
Cinémathèque Française
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