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Orson Welles Cinema, the Glossary

The Orson Welles Cinema was a movie theater at 1001 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts that operated from 1969 to 1986.^[1]

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1969 establishments in Massachusetts
1986 disestablishments in Massachusetts
Cinemas and movie theaters in Massachusetts
Orson Welles
Repertory cinemas in the United States
Theatres completed in 1969

And Now for Something Completely Different

And Now for Something Completely Different is a 1971 British sketch comedy film based on the television comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus featuring sketches from the show's first two series.

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Animalympics

Animalympics is a 1980 American animated television film directed by Steven Lisberger and produced by Lisberger Studios for the NBC network.

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Boston

Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Brazil

Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.

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Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Chi-Chi's can either refer to a defunct Mexican food restaurant chain founded in the United States in 1976, which continued in Europe only as a single restaurant after the North American owner declared bankruptcy and folded in 2004, or to its namesake brand of Mexican food grocery products produced and marketed when the original North American restaurant chain owner sold the rights to use its name on said products in 1987.

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Class Act

Class Act is a 1992 American comedy film directed by Randall Miller and starring hip-hop duo Kid 'n Play.

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Davis Square

Davis Square is a major intersection in the northwestern section of Somerville, Massachusetts, United States, where several streets meet: Holland Street, Dover Street, Day Street, Elm Street, Highland Avenue, and College Avenue.

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Dean Gitter

Dean L. Gitter (September 21, 1935 – November 21, 2018) was an entrepreneur, musician, and real estate developer in the Catskills in New York State.

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Dennis Potter

Dennis Christopher George Potter (17 May 1935 – 7 June 1994) was an English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist.

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Dick Clement

Dick Clement (born 5 September 1937) is an English writer, director and producer.

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Digest size

Digest size is a magazine size, smaller than a conventional or "journal size" magazine, but larger than a standard paperback book, approximately.

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Don Siegel

Donald Siegel (October 26, 1912 – April 20, 1991) was an American film and television director and producer.

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Dreamchild

Dreamchild is a 1985 British drama film written by Dennis Potter, directed by Gavin Millar, and produced by Rick McCallum and Kenith Trodd.

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Earth vs. the Flying Saucers

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Ed Emshwiller

Edmund Alexander Emshwiller (February 16, 1925 – July 27, 1990) was an American visual artist notable for his science fiction illustrations and his pioneering experimental films.

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Edward Dmytryk

Edward Dmytryk (September 4, 1908 – July 1, 1999) was a Canadian-born American film director and editor.

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F for Fake

F for Fake (Vérités et mensonges, "Truths and lies"; Fraude, "Fraud") is a 1973 docudrama film co-written, directed by, and starring Orson Welles who worked on the film alongside François Reichenbach, Oja Kodar, and Gary Graver.

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Fantastic Voyage

Fantastic Voyage is a 1966 American science fiction adventure film directed by Richard Fleischer and written by Harry Kleiner, based on a story by Otto Klement and Jerome Bixby.

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Filming Othello

Filming Othello is a 1978 English-language West German documentary film directed by and starring Orson Welles about the making of his award-winning 1951 production Othello.

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Folk music

Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.

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François Truffaut

François Roland Truffaut (6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was a French filmmaker, actor, and critic.

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Gary Graver

Gary Foss Graver (July 20, 1938 – November 16, 2006) was an American film director, editor, screenwriter and cinematographer.

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George A. Romero

George Andrew Romero Jr. (February 4, 1940 – July 16, 2017) was an American-Canadian film director, writer, editor and actor.

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Harold Russell

Harold John Avery Russell (January 14, 1914 – January 29, 2002) was an American World War II veteran.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Henry Jaglom

Henry David Jaglom (born January 26, 1938) is an English-born American actor, film director and playwright.

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Hester Street (film)

Hester Street is a 1975 drama film based on Abraham Cahan's 1896 novella Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto, and was adapted and directed by Joan Micklin Silver.

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1956 American science-fiction horror film produced by Walter Wanger, directed by Don Siegel, and starring Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter.

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It Came from Outer Space

It Came from Outer Space is a 1953 American science fiction horror film, the first in the 3D process from Universal-International.

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Jacques Rivette

Jacques Rivette (1 March 1928 – 29 January 2016) was a French film director and film critic most commonly associated with the French New Wave and the film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma.

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Jay Leno

James Douglas Muir Leno (born April 28, 1950) is an American television host, writer and comedian.

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Jean Eustache

Jean Eustache (30 November 1938 – 5 November 1981) was a French film director and editor.

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Jean-Pierre Léaud

Jean-Pierre Léaud, ComM (born 28 May 1944) is a French actor best known for being an important figure of the French New Wave and his portrayal of Antoine Doinel in a series of films by François Truffaut, beginning with The 400 Blows (1959).

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Jim McBride

Jim McBride (born September 16, 1941) is an American screenwriter, producer and director.

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Joan Micklin Silver

Joan Micklin Silver (May 24, 1935 – December 31, 2020) was an American director of films and plays.

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John Semper

John Semper Jr. is an American screenwriter, producer and story editor with numerous credits in animation for television.

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Luis Buñuel

Luis Buñuel Portolés (22 February 1900 – 29 July 1983) was a Spanish filmmaker who worked in France, Mexico, and Spain.

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Mexican cuisine

Mexican cuisine consists of the cooking cuisines and traditions of the modern country of Mexico.

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Midnight movie

The term midnight movie is rooted in the practice that emerged in the 1950s of local television stations around the United States airing low-budget genre films as late-night programming, often with a host delivering ironic asides.

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Miramax

Miramax, LLC, formerly known as Miramax Films, is an American independent film and television production and distribution company founded on December 19, 1979, by Harvey and Bob Weinstein, and based in Los Angeles, California.

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Monty Python's Flying Circus

Monty Python's Flying Circus (also known as simply Monty Python) is a British surreal sketch comedy series created by and starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Terry Gilliam, who became known collectively as "Monty Python", or the "Pythons".

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Neil Young

Neil Percival Young (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian and American singer and songwriter.

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Nicholas Ray

Nicholas Ray (born Raymond Nicholas Kienzle Jr., August 7, 1911 – June 16, 1979) was an American film director, screenwriter, and actor.

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Northampton, Massachusetts

The city of Northampton is the county seat of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Oh! Calcutta!

Oh! Calcutta! is an avant-garde, risqué theatrical revue created by British drama critic Kenneth Tynan.

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Orion Pictures

Orion Releasing, LLC (doing business as Orion) is an American film production and distribution company owned by the Amazon MGM Studios subsidiary of Amazon.

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Orson Welles

George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American director, actor, writer, producer, and magician who is remembered for his innovative work in film, radio, and theatre.

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Out 1

Out 1, also referred to as Out 1: Noli Me Tangere, is a 1971 French film directed by Jacques Rivette and Suzanne Schiffman.

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Peter Bogdanovich

Peter Bogdanovich (Петар Богдановић; July 30, 1939 – January 6, 2022) was an American director, writer, actor, producer, critic, and film historian.

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Peter Jaszi

Peter Jaszi is a widely known expert on copyright law and author, with Patricia Aufderheide, of Reclaiming Fair Use (2012), which examines the state of fair use and the importance to scholarship, art, and free expression of strengthening the doctrine.

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Quatermass and the Pit (film)

Quatermass and the Pit (US title: Five Million Years to Earth) is a 1967 British science fiction horror film from Hammer Film Productions.

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Ralph P. Hoagland III

Ralph Pratt Hoagland III (August 1, 1933 – January 17, 2020) was an American businessman.

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Somerville Theatre

The Somerville Theatre is an independent movie theater and concert venue in the Davis Square neighborhood of Somerville, Massachusetts, United States. Orson Welles Cinema and Somerville Theatre are cinemas and movie theaters in Massachusetts.

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Spider-Man (1994 TV series)

Spider-Man, also known as Spider-Man: The Animated Series, is an American superhero animated television series based on the Marvel Comics superhero of the same name.

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Steven Lisberger

Steven M. Lisberger (born April 24, 1951) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter.

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Student Academy Awards

The Student Academy Awards are presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in an annual competition for college and university filmmakers.

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The Day of the Triffids (film)

The Day of the Triffids is a 1963 British science fiction horror film in CinemaScope and Eastmancolor, produced by George Pitcher and Philip Yordan and directed by Steve Sekely and Freddie Francis.

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The Day the Earth Stood Still

The Day the Earth Stood Still (working titles: Farewell to the Master and Journey to the World) is a 1951 American science fiction film from 20th Century Fox, produced by Julian Blaustein and directed by Robert Wise.

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The Harvard Crimson

The Harvard Crimson is the student newspaper of Harvard University and was founded in 1873.

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The Immortal Story

The Immortal Story (Une histoire immortelle) is a 1968 French film directed by Orson Welles and starring Jeanne Moreau.

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The Incredible Shrinking Man

The Incredible Shrinking Man is a 1957 American science fiction film directed by Jack Arnold, based on Richard Matheson's 1956 novel, The Shrinking Man.

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The Other Side of the Wind

The Other Side of the Wind is a 2018 satirical drama film co-written, co-edited, and directed by Orson Welles, and posthumously released in 2018 after 48 years in development.

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The Real Paper

The Real Paper was a Boston-area alternative weekly newspaper with a circulation in the tens of thousands.

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The Samuel Goldwyn Company

The Samuel Goldwyn Company was an American independent film company founded by Samuel Goldwyn Jr., the son of the famous Hollywood mogul, Samuel Goldwyn, in 1978.

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The Shape of Things to Come

The Shape of Things to Come is a science fiction novel written by the British writer H. G. Wells published in 1933.

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The Thing from Another World

The Thing from Another World, sometimes referred to as just The Thing, is a 1951 American black-and-white science fiction-horror film, directed by Christian Nyby, produced by Edward Lasker for Howard Hawks' Winchester Pictures Corporation, and released by RKO Radio Pictures.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Welles_Cinema

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Orson Welles Cinema, the Glossary

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1969 establishments in Massachusetts

1986 disestablishments in Massachusetts

Cinemas and movie theaters in Massachusetts

Orson Welles

Repertory cinemas in the United States

Theatres completed in 1969

References