Nuart Theatre
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The Nuart Theatre is L.A.'s premier art house
Art film
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 movie venue and the flagship movie theater
Movie theater
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 of the Landmark Theatres
Landmark Theatres
Landmark Theatres is the largest art house movie theater chain in the United States. It is owned by Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner through their 2929 Entertainment. The chain shows mostly first run independent, foreign film, and restored classics though some Landmark theaters also show more mainstream...

 chain in the United States of America.

Location

Located on Santa Monica Boulevard, one block from the 405 freeway
Interstate 405 (California)
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, it hosts a weekly midnight movie showing of the Rocky Horror Picture Show featuring shadowcast Sins O' The Flesh.

History

The Nuart was built in 1929.
  • The theater was used in the Chevy Chase
    Chevy Chase
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    Goldie Hawn
    Goldie Hawn
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     comedy film Foul Play
    Foul Play
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    , although the film is set in San Francisco.
  • John Waters
    John Waters (filmmaker)
    John Samuel Waters, Jr. is an American filmmaker, actor, stand-up comedian, writer, journalist, visual artist, and art collector, who rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films...

     created a short "No Smoking" spot for the Nuart Theatre in appreciation to the theater for showing Pink Flamingos
    Pink Flamingos
    Pink Flamingos is a 1972 transgressive black comedy film written, produced, composed, shot, edited, and directed by John Waters. When the film was initially released, it caused a huge degree of controversy and thus became one of the most notorious cult films ever made. It made an underground star...

    for many years.
  • The director Michel Gondry
    Michel Gondry
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     filmed part of Beck
    Beck
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    's video for "Deadweight" at the Nuart.


The Nuart was bought by Landmark Theatres in 1974 and was the first Landmark theater along with the UC Theater
UC Theater
The UC Theatre was a movie theater at 2036 University Avenue near Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley, California.-History:Opened in 1917, the 1,300-seat theater was acquired in 1974 by theater owner Gary Meyer as one of the first theaters—along with the Nuart Theatre in Los Angeles—in his Landmark...

 in Berkeley, California
Berkeley, California
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. The theater was remodeled in 2006 and currently seats 303 people.

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