 Oak Street Cinema, in the early stages of demolition in 2011 | |
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| Address | 309 Oak Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414[1] |
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| Coordinates | 44°58′23.5302″N 93°13′37.0446″W / 44.973202833°N 93.226956833°W |
| Type | Indoor movie theater |
| Capacity | 312[2] |
| Construction | |
| Built | 1916 |
| Opened | 1916 |
| Renovated | 1935 |
| Closed | 2010 |
| Demolished | September 2011[1] |
| Years active | 1916-1989; 1995-2010[1] |
| Architect | Liebenberg and Kaplan |
The Oak Street Cinema was a small, single-screen movie theater in the Stadium Village neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, near the University of Minnesota campus. The theater played both first-run independent films and repertory showings, including retrospectives of such filmmakers as Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Akira Kurosawa and others, as well as genre-based retrospectives. It had also been home to several local film festivals, including the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival.[3] The theater has hosted visits from several well-known filmmakers and celebrities, such as Terry Gilliam, Michael Moore, Peter Fonda, Cyd Charisse, and many others.[citation needed]
The building was demolished in September 2011[1] after 95 years of existence.