The Historic Uptown Theatre

Saturday, May 7, 2016

Friday, May 6, 2016

1939 Opening

Smoking Permitted in Balcony!

Ample Free Parking!

Mystifying 'Black Light!'

From James Lilek's 'What Was Suburban in 1939? Uptown'

Minneapolis Star Tribune, 09.17.09
"A piece of the World's Fair come to Uptown"

Friday, March 25, 2016

For the first time since their closing night Murderball screening in 2005, the Uptown Theatre is a venue for the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival. Movies play between April 8-14, 2016.

4/8

4:45 - A Decent Man

7:00 - They Will Have to Kill Us First (Songhoy Blues in attendance)

9:50 - Serial Killer 1

4/9

11:00 - The New Classmate

1:10 - Locking the Cage

3:15 - Kill Me Please

5:30 - Valley of Love

7:30 - My Big Night

9:45 - Alena

4/10

11:30 - Speed Sisters

1:30 - 600 Miles

3:30 - The Fencer

6:00 - Vore King (Dan S. & R.P. Whalen in attendance)

9:15 - Endorphine

4/11

4:30 - Belgian Rhapsody

7:00 - Here is Harold

9:45 - The Invitation

4/12

4:45 - Blush

7:10 - Presenting Princess Shaw (Samantha Montgomery in attendance)

9:30 - Tale of Tales

4/13

4:30 - Eisenstein in Guanajuato

7:00 - Women He's Undressed

9:15 - The Seeker (Jeff D. Johnson & Cloud Cult in attendance)

4/14

4:45 - One Floor Below

7:00 - Beeba Boys (Deepa Mehta & David Hamilton in attendance)

10:00 - Mad Tiger

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Hail Mary

Minneapolis Star and Tribune, 04/13/86

Hail Mary Stolen (from Reading Eagle, 4/9/86)

Thieves broke into a theater and stole a copy of "Hail Mary," the controversial French film about a modern-day Madonna, the theater manager said.

Canisters holding the Jean-Luc Godard film were taken early Monday after 3,000 people packed the theater over the weekend to see the movie protesters have called tasteless and blasphemous. The film depicts Mary as a gas station attendant and Joseph as a taxi driver, and includes frontal nudity.

The thieves also damaged two projectors, breaking light bulbs worth $750 each, said Tom Ladd, manager of the Uptown Theater.

The theft forced the cancellations of three shows, but Ladd said the corporation that owns the theater was flying another copy of the film in from California for today's shows.

Ladd predicted the break-in would boost interest in the film, which he said has drawn crowds three times larger than most Godard films.

About 40 people picketed the Uptown on Friday, opening night.