Tag Archives: Art Films

Historic Coliseum Cinemas Movie Theatre Hosts Film Club, Shows Art Films

Thanks to merging interests of a Washington Heights resident and Coliseum Cinemas business owners, Northern Manhattanites get to view first-run, non-commercial art, documentary, and independent films close to home these days. Together, Michael Kassin and the owners of the historic Coliseum Cinemas on 181st Street launched, against industry odds, the successful Coliseum Cinemas Movie Club […]

Cult Films — ‘Polyester’ by John Waters

Nobody could fill a bra and panties quite like Divine. Take a look at “Polyester” if you have any doubts. There he is, right at the start of John Waters’ uncivilized comedy, a 300-pound troublemaker all dressed up in feminine mystique. Waters, who’s gone on to almost mainstream respectability (say it isn’t so!) with such […]