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Unconfirmed rumours are circulating that the plug has been pulled on Atom Egoyan’s Camera Bar-slash-repertory cinema on Queen Street just east of Ossington (update at BlogTO: still open but scaled back<\/a>). A shame if true as it was a lovely place. It got me thinking about the idea of going to the movies in the city. I have this image of big cities, on Saturday night, with people filling the sidewalks on their way to see a show. Toronto had lots of neighbourhood cinemas, built before television took over (in fact, there’s a nice book called Nabes<\/a> about them), many of which now house convenience stores or other less glamourous things — though some, like the Bloor, Royal, Fox and others still endure.<\/p>\n

They’re great, but I miss the little theatres that were tucked away in the modern buildings. In the 60s and 70s there was a trend to jam cozy little theatres into parts of different developments. The Eaton Centre had them, as did the Bay building at Yonge and Bloor. Perhaps the one I miss the most, even though it closed in the 1970s, long before I had a chance to see it first hand, is the one Mies van der Rohe designed in the TD Centre. Imagine going to see something like Kubrick’s 2001 in a theatre that looked like it belonged in the movie. And of course, “The Cinema” sign in the unique font designed specially for the TD Centre.<\/p>\n

What I like(d) about these little theatres, and why I don’t mind going to the Carlton, is the lack of crap there is to wade through to get to the screen. The picture and sound might be bigger and better at places like the Paramount, but passing through the screaming plane crash that is the lobby and the food-that-comes-in-pails kiosks is unpleasant at best (though the bar at the Paramount has a super view of downtown — but it might be the bar’s confections that make sitting there tolerable).<\/p>\n

The picture above is found on the Reading Toronto<\/a> site — currently they’re doing Proust Questionnaires of various architects at the firm ERA (who we threw the Toronto the Good party last May – and will again this year). Lindsay Reid was asked “If there was one Toronto place that no longer remains that you could visit for an afternoon what would it be?: and she said “I’d like to go see a matinee in the Mies van de Rohe designed cinema formerly located in the basement of the TD Centre.” That sounds nice. Toronto had so many good places. Like the Camera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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