Cinemark Tinseltown Rochester IMAX
Rochester · United StatesSingle source
PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room A, 75/100 — a genuinely strong large-format room, 317 m² of lit picture, and it can show the full 1.43:1 frame. The 70mm print is confirmed by IMAX's own engagement list. Data read 5 November 2026.
Upstate New York's only IMAX 70mm film venue.
2291 Buffalo Road, Rochester, NY, 14624 · Open in maps ↗
Excellent large-format presentation.
Spec sheet
- Projection
- IMAX 15/70mm Film
- Screen
- 21.3 m × 16.1 m (343 m²)
- Screen shape
- 1.32:1 — the fabric itself
- Picture shown
- 1.43:1 — full IMAX frame
- 15/70mm film
- Yes — confirmed, ran The Odyssey in 70mm
- Sound
- IMAX 6-channel
- Seats
- 253
- Screen type
- Not a dome — curvature not recorded
- Opened
- 1999
- Operator
- Cinemark
Why IQ 75
317 m² of lit picture · full marks at 700 m² · one source
IMAX 15/70mm Film · film and digital projectors, each on its own source
1.43:1 · on a 15/70mm print
IMAX 6-channel · as published
How big, really?
Drawn to scale · figure = 1.7 m
- 1Traumpalast Leonberg IMAX · 38.8×21.0 m · picture 792 m², 3% never lit
- 2BFI IMAX · 26×20.0 m · picture 473 m², 9% never lit
- 3Cinemark Tinseltown Rochester IMAX · 21.3×16.1 m · picture 317 m², 7% never lit
- 4Typical multiplex screen · 12 m wide, height not published
Scale check
Familiar objects, same scale as the screen
3 double-decker buses fit on this screen (1 across × 3 up · 343 m² total)
What you actually see
Switch format — watch what lights up on this screen · why this matters
The full IMAX frame — the tallest picture that exists
- Screen
- 343 m²
- Picture
- 317 m²
- Screen used
- 93%
1.2 m of this screen's height — 7% of it — stays dark for an IMAX 1.43 showing.
Worth travelling for?
Your nearest premium screen isn't always the best one in reach
Nothing materially better within 75 mi — this is your best option locally.
•Where to next
Also in Rochester
Where this comes from
Single sourceWe treat a figure as confirmed only when two independent sources agree.
- Screen dimensions
- one source, listed twice — these copy each other
- · imaxguide, the r/IMAX database ↗
- · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
- Projector
- confirmed by 2 sources
- · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
- · imaxguide, the r/IMAX database ↗
- 15/70mm film
- confirmed by 3 sources
- · IMAX's Odyssey 70mm engagement list ↗
- · imaxguide, the r/IMAX database ↗
- · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
- Operating status
- verified open
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