Popular Art House Theater Film Forum Reopening In August

WEST VILLAGE, NY — Indie art house Film Forum will reopen its doors on Aug. 1 with show stopping renovations including building-wide improvements and a fourth screen that will allow the West Village theater to beef up its showings of documentaries, indie darlings and foreign films, according to the theater's owners.

The new screen is constructed using space drawn from the theater's neighbor and allows for greater flexibility for its programming schedule. Each of the art house's three current screens are being overhauled with new seats crafted in Spain, more leg room and a more dramatic slope to improve sight lines to the silver screen.

Film Forum was founded in 1970 on Watts Street in Soho but relocated to its current West Houston Street location in 1990. The renovations over the years have been few and far between and the screens have remained untouched until now.

Film Forum's showings on its opening day include "Jacques Becker," a retrospective of the French director, “Nico, 1988” on the Velvet Underground's lead singer and an Iranian thriller, "No Date, No Signature."

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