Tara Theatre
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The Tara Theatre is an art house
movie theater located in Atlanta. The theater specializes in the showing of independent films
, the only theater in Atlanta to do so.
. It embodies the modern architectural style popular at the time. Originally called Loew's Tara, the theater's name memorializes the fictional Tara
plantation, home of the O'Hara family
in Margaret Mitchell's
novel Gone With the Wind
. Tara opened as single screen theater with seating for 1200, but was later twinned. In the 1970s, two more screens were added. In the 1980s United Artists Theatres bought the Tara. The Tara's lobby features checkerboard tiles and large hanging portraits of Hollywood movie stars, such as Greta Garbo, Sean Connery, and Charlie Chaplin.
Art film
An art film is the result of filmmaking which is typically a serious, independent film aimed at a niche market rather than a mass market audience...
movie theater located in Atlanta. The theater specializes in the showing of independent films
Independent film
An independent film, or indie film, is a professional film production resulting in a feature film that is produced mostly or completely outside of the major film studio system. In addition to being produced and distributed by independent entertainment companies, independent films are also produced...
, the only theater in Atlanta to do so.
History
The Tara Theatre was opened in 1968 by Loew's TheatresLoews Cineplex Entertainment
Loews Theatres, aka Loews Incorporated , founded in 1904 by Marcus Loew and Brantford Schwartz, was the oldest theater chain operating in North America until it merged with AMC Theatres on January 26, 2006. From 1924 until 1959, it was also the parent company of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios. The...
. It embodies the modern architectural style popular at the time. Originally called Loew's Tara, the theater's name memorializes the fictional Tara
Tara Plantation
Tara, the fictional plantation found in Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel Gone with the Wind, was located near Jonesborough , Georgia...
plantation, home of the O'Hara family
Scarlett O'Hara
Scarlett O' Hara is the protagonist in Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel Gone with the Wind and in the later film of the same name...
in Margaret Mitchell's
Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was an American author and journalist. Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937 for her epic American Civil War era novel, Gone with the Wind, which was the only novel by Mitchell published during her lifetime.-Family:Margaret Mitchell was born in Atlanta,...
novel Gone With the Wind
Gone with the Wind
The slaves depicted in Gone with the Wind are primarily loyal house servants, such as Mammy, Pork and Uncle Peter, and these slaves stay on with their masters even after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 sets them free...
. Tara opened as single screen theater with seating for 1200, but was later twinned. In the 1970s, two more screens were added. In the 1980s United Artists Theatres bought the Tara. The Tara's lobby features checkerboard tiles and large hanging portraits of Hollywood movie stars, such as Greta Garbo, Sean Connery, and Charlie Chaplin.