Riverview Theater

(This article is about the cinema in Minneapolis. For the performance venue in Shreveport, Louisiana, see RiverView Theater (Shreveport, Louisiana).) The Riverview Theater is a neighborhood movie theater in the Howe neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Designed by Liebenberg and Kaplan, the theater was built by theater owners Bill and Sidney Volk in 1948. After building a subsequent theater in a new ultramodern style, the Volks returned to the Riverview in 1956 and had its lobby area heavily renovated and updated. The Riverview remains one of several surviving single-screen cinemas in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area and typically shows second-run films for $2 or $3, as well as other special programming. Since the early 2000s, it has been consistently recognized by City Pages as one of t

Riverview Theater

(This article is about the cinema in Minneapolis. For the performance venue in Shreveport, Louisiana, see RiverView Theater (Shreveport, Louisiana).) The Riverview Theater is a neighborhood movie theater in the Howe neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Designed by Liebenberg and Kaplan, the theater was built by theater owners Bill and Sidney Volk in 1948. After building a subsequent theater in a new ultramodern style, the Volks returned to the Riverview in 1956 and had its lobby area heavily renovated and updated. The Riverview remains one of several surviving single-screen cinemas in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area and typically shows second-run films for $2 or $3, as well as other special programming. Since the early 2000s, it has been consistently recognized by City Pages as one of t