2024

movies at
the palace

Season of Friendship
Movies with Lin-Manuel Miranda
what do we need most to survive 2024?
In planning this year’s Movies at the Palace series, we asked ourselves: What do we need most to survive 2024? Our Answer: Friendship.
Then we asked you
Which movies say SAY “FRIENDSHIP” to you?

You said:

Duck Soup Poster
rebel
the producers
closed encounters
breakfastclub-std
thelmaandlouise
finding nemo
Hidden Figures Poster
littlewomen
Rebel Without a Cause

kicks off the Season of Friendship! on march 15th!

We encourage you to dress to impress in your favorite 50s attire (or red jacket) and witness this iconic movie the way it was meant to be seen—on the BIG screen!
Tag us @unitedpalacenyc to see your outfits on the screening day!

Tickets are now AVAILABLE

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Be sure to arrive early for raffle prizes, pre-show sock hop, and photo with Mr. Dean himself (at least a life-size cutout of him)! What better way to make friends than at a good old-fashioned sock hop?

Movies at the Palace

with Lin-Manuel Miranda

Movies We Missed

The United Palace’s good friend, patron, and neighbor Lin-Manuel Miranda has supported screenings at the United Palace since 2013 when he helped the theatre’s fund-raising campaign to purchase a new projector, screen, and surround sound system to return movies to the theatre after a 40-year hiatus.

 His guests in 2022 included Steven Spielberg, Spike Lee, Hugh Jackman, and Danai Gurira, and the film series attracted about 15,000 guests to the heart of Washington Heights.

Movies at the United Palace with Lin-Manuel Miranda returns in 2024 with “Movies We Missed,” since last year’s series was cut short by the writers’ and actors’ strikes, which also hurt the promotional efforts around many new releases. This led us to this year’s theme, shining a light on films that were released during the 2023 strikes, and also some films that we originally planned for our 2023 season.

Movies at the Palace with Lin-Manuel Miranda is sponsored by the Miranda Family Fund with support from New York-Presbyterian Hospital.  
The series kicked off on February 26 with Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, about two Mexican-American teenagers in 1987 El Paso, Texas who explore a new unusual friendship and gain new understanding about their families while navigating the difficult road to self-discovery.
After the screening, attendees were treated to a special conversation between the United Palace’s good friend, patron, and neighbor, Lin-Manuel Miranda (also a producer of the film), director Aitch Alberto, and stars Max Pelayo and Reese Gonzales. This was the first NYC screening of the film where Miranda, Alberto, Pelayo and Gonzales are able to celebrate the film together due to the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes in 2023, when the film was originally released.

History

The ornate United Palace opened in 1930 as the Loew’s 175th Street Theatre, a deluxe movie theatre and vaudeville house, the last of the five Wonder Theatres in New York City and New Jersey. Its first act as a movie theatre ended in April 1969 with a screening of “2001: A Space Odyssey.”

With a groundswell of community support and our good friend, patron, and neighbor Lin-Manuel Miranda, movies returned to the United Palace in 2013. Since then we have screened over 100 feature films, from world premieres (“In the Heights” and “Halftime” as part of the Tribeca Festival) to all-time classics (“It’s A Wonderful Life”), to community favorites (the documentary “Mad Hot Ballroom” about local school children winning a citywide dance contest).

We honor the theatre’s original use as a vaudeville house and movie palace by curating screenings of classic movies with live entertainment thematically linked to the film, such as mini concerts, dance performances, fashion shows, or speakers. UPCA partners with Lin-Manuel and his family for many of these screenings, inviting special guests such as Rita Moreno (“West Side Story”), Steven Spielberg (“Raiders of the Lost Ark”), Spike Lee (“Do the Right Thing”), and Hugh Jackman (“The Greatest Showman”).

Our goal is to have the cinematic experience come alive for audiences too used to watching movies on their phones or TVs.

One of our highest compliments came from Robert DeNiro who, speaking before a 50th anniversary screening of “The Godfather,” described watching a movie at the United Palace as: “The moviegoing experience doesn’t get any better.”
To honor the theatre’s original use as a vaudeville house and movie palace, UPCA helps curate screenings of classic movies with live entertainment thematically linked to the film, such as mini concerts, dance performances, fashion shows, or speakers. UPCA partners with Lin-Manuel Miranda and his family for many of these screenings. The goal is to have the cinematic experience come alive for audiences too used to watching movies on their phones or TVs.

UPCA is a separate entity from the United Palace and its parent organization but shares its social media accounts and e-newsletter.

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