This is extremely disappointing. This theater played a major role in my "development" as a cinemaphile and would-be filmmaker -- it's probably the last one left that did, in fact.
I saw Casablanca from a front row (2nd? 4th?) in this theater because the room was otherwise PACKED. I saw My Brilliant Career several times here, and King of Hearts (which it used to show annually), and my first John Sayles movies (Lianna and Secaucus Seven - a double feature - with Jack Martin) !! Not to mention a hundred other movies since it was bought out by AMC-Loews and converted to a mainstream theater. Although it's been a kind of crappy first-run hole for a while, it's still a serious blow to the history of independent exhibition - another nail in the coffin.
Sad!
I have a faint, faint hope that another chain (Landmark?) will buy it and fix it up, but this is only wish-based, really.
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