. Brooklyn Center Cinema currently has no published film schedule.  And although we have not been presenting a regularly scheduled film program, we do arrange some very exciting CinEvents every chance we get.   Click What's Playing to see if there are any programmed CinEvents this month.  Also, clicking the Previous and Next buttons on the bottom of the each pages will take you through some of the highlights of the last few seasons when we were doing what we love best -- presenting the classics the way the directors and cinematographers intended -- on the giant CinemaScope Screen and in multichannel sound, augmented at Brooklyn Center Cinema by our custom designed, breathtakingly realistic Electro-Voice sound system. Keep checking this site; we expect to get back on the screen with more free Sneak Previews and some great classics throughout the season.  You can be emailed about upcoming CinEvents by emailing us at CinEmail@BrooklynCenterCinema.com If you would like to be phoned about our CinEvents, be sure to leave a phone number where you can be reached (our policy is to only call between the hours of 2pm and 8pm -- never earlier or later)

One of Brooklyn Center Cinema's joint ventures with the Department of Film at Brooklyn College was a series of wide screen films, opening with a Special Presentation of

Starring
RICHARD BURTON, JEAN SIMMONS and
VICTOR MATURE
with Michael Rennie, Dean Jagger and Anne Bancroft
Directed by HENRY KOSTER
Music Score by ALFRED NEWMAN

presented in

Click on the logo above for an explanation of the revolutionary Wide Screen process


and
Extreme MegaSound
     
This is a very rare screening of the first CinemaScope release (1953), a process developed by 20th Century Fox (for which they won a Special Academy Award that year).  CinemaScope, and all the 35mm wide screen systems it fathered, revolutionized the way motion pictures were filmed and presented.  The ability for the filmmaker to capture an expanse that encompassed nearly the eye's entire visual horizon was a formidable cinematic tool.   

This was the first in a series of films that utilized wide screen technology in ways that were aesthetically new and inventive and which have become so natural that it might be easy for us to take for them granted today. 

This special collaboration which included five CinemaScope title were part of a lecture series by film scholar and critic Foster Hirsch for Brooklyn College's Film Department.

THE AESTHETICS OF WIDE SCREEN MOTION PICTURES
was presented by Brooklyn Center Cinema and Film Department at Brooklyn College

OK, so Brooklyn Center Cinema is not showing a film tonight.  Disappointing, isn't it?  But you are still interested in spending a fun night on the town.  Well, Brooklyn New York, dear friends, is the town to do it in.  But where to go to find just the right evening's entertainment and relaxation?  Find out all our culturally rich Borough has to offer you by visiting  . . . .

Always check www.HelloBrooklyn.com  before leaving home -- it's the premiere, largest online directory of Brooklyn  theatres, restaurants, attractions, arts, real estate, hotels, and much more.

For detailed technical and historical information about Hollywood's romance with wide screen cinema processes and their evolution, we suggest a visit to Martin Hart's highly informative 
The American Widescreen Museum

The CinemaScope logo and THE ROBE graphics which are used above and elsewhere on this site are trademarks of Twentieth Century Fox with design enhancement and additional creative elements by Martin Hart.  Used with permission.

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