Get our top picks for the best events in San Antonio every Thursday morning. The latest turn for the Bijou also comes after an announcement late last year from the city of Balcones Heights that it was spending $5.4 million on a 46% ownership stake in the mall. Those theaters now operate as Santikos Westlakes, which began showing movies again last month, and Santikos New Branfuels, which resumed last summer. The Bijou's reported closure follows a buying spree by Santikos, which absorbed and reopened two of the Austin-based Alamo Drafthouse chain's local outlets. It took over after longtime operator Regal Cinemas shuttered the location, which it also operated as an arthouse property. Santikos has operated the theater since 2003, devoting some of its screens to foreign and art films while bolstering sales with food and alcohol.
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However, the Bijou no longer appears on the San Antonio-based theater operator's website, which lists 10 other area holdings. The Current was unable to reach Santikos Entertainment for comment. A sign posted Monday at the Santikos Bijou Cinema Bistro, the long-running arthouse theater inside Wonderland of the Americas mall, has announced its closure, news site MySA reports.
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Its sad that this is the only theater that shows art house films in San Antonio.The Bijou is located inside Wonderland of the Americas mall. I was absolutely sure that someone there was being pranked, but nope.this was irritatingly normal. Also, when the assistant manager could not get in to the drawer for prepaid tickets, she had to call the big manager which took her own sweet time coming down the stairs to resolve the situation by handing the assistant manager a key to access the drawer. After 10 minutes with no line movement, several patrons noticed that the assistant manager stood watching from about 10 feet away, while not feeling that customers were important enough to open another register. The first issue was that apparently the manager felt that only one employee was required at the register, which is where you handle everything at once (purchase tickets, choose seats, order snacks, get snacks) Note: this is terribly inefficient when you have 8 people in line. The Bijou Cinema itself is not a bad theater, but it seems that 9 out of 10 employees have developed a new speed: slower than a snail. Overall the theater was fine but the people who go there are not. We were able to get our tickets refunded, because we were too appalled to watch the movie still. According to the manager they have had these types of complaints in the past and can not do anything about it. Messed up that movie theaters allow these Types of behaviors to stay without any penalty. But according to “corporate” because he wasn’t alone, he was with 3 other older women that said nothing, he would not be able to be forced to move seats. Find movie showtimes and buy movie tickets for Bijou on Atom Tickets. Needless to say, after confronting his absolute rude behavior, we went to the manager to either have him move seats or be removed entirely. All this is happening before the movie even started.
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My friend asks me a quick question after that, and he very loudly told her to shut the f**k up. This man rudely said people also like to watch these before the movie as well, I took it with a grain of salt and told him we will do our best to not disturb him.
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So we took our seats and while quietly wrapping up our previous conversation about the impression of this theater (we liked it). It was during the pre-previews to the movie, the lights were still not off. Went with a friend to this theater and sat down next to an older man. The theater itself is okay, but the clientele there is absolutely HORRIBLE.