A Manhattan movie theater known for its role in exposing budding
Hollywood directors to rare films reopened in 2002 after
nearly 10 years of neglect. Situated at Broadway and West 95th Street, the Thalia has been transformed into a modern theater.
The Thalia -- now renamed the Leonard Nimoy Thalia, thanks to financial assistance from the former Star Trek lead -- opened in 1938 and became known as one of New York's premier repertory theaters.
Directors such as Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen
and Peter Bogdanovich were regular patrons during its heyday in the
1950s and 1960s. Scorsese recently told The New York Times that the Thalia was "better than film school" because of the variety of movies it screened, such as Orson Welles' Citizen Kane and the work of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa.
