Broadway Cinematheque () is a

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, run by Broadway Circuit. Located in Prosperous Garden, a

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, the cinema screens a wider spectrum of films including

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and

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films than other cinemas in Hong Kong. The cinema hosts four houses with 476 seats (115 normal seats + 4 wheelchair seats per house). It also has a book store, Kubrick, which specializes in books about films, and has a

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adjacent to it.

History

Broadway Cinematheque's building was designed by

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, who founded the

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in 1994. The cinema opened on 20 November 1996, the day of the

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in the adjoining

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neighbourhood, and as a result business on its first day was quite poor. The cinema's initial strategy of showing only art film proved to be unsustainable, and so around 2000 it began showing mainstream films on two of its four screens. It is owned by , which according to Broadway Cinematheque director Gary Mak is content for the cinema to

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in order to grow an audience for non-mainstream film in Hong Kong. It has served as a venue for film festivals such as the

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References

External links

Broadway Cinematheque website
Cinemas in Hong Kong Yau Ma Tei Hong Kong films {{Kowloon-stub

History

See also

References

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