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Originally Posted by vienna
Frau Kaleun:
Don't know where you are located (Midgaard would be on great place to be), but you would love it here in Los Angeles (filmwise at least). Tarantino recently bought a movie theater that was almost closed after the owner died unexpectedly. The theater is one of the better revival hiuses in the area and was a real labour of love for the late owner. Tarantino had been a frequent patron over the past many years and bought the theater to prevent it being sold and possibly demolished. He refurbished and remodelled the interior and exterior while keeping the original feel and has taken a very active role in the scheduling of films.
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Oddball he may be, but I can totally see Tarantino as the right man to get behind a project like that.
I'm in southwestern Ohio. We used to have a repertory theater in downtown Cincinnati that played all kinds of cool stuff - documentaries, foreign films, cult favorites, revivals of classics... they even set aside time every so often for a "bad film festival" where they'd show things like
Plan 9 From Outer Space and
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.
Once I found out about it I managed to get there a few times before they closed. Favorite memory is of seeing
Casablanca there one Valentine's Day when I talked a boyfriend into making the drive. He got in terrible trouble for taking the family car into the city (we were still in high school) but, hey...
Casablanca on the big screen!
The "franchise" theater that used to be in the big mall near me had a special "classics" matinee once a month, but of course it was on a weekday when I was at work so I could never go.
There's one other place downtown that has a more varied line-up but it's mostly the less mainstream current stuff, they don't bring back the classics as far as I know. Thank heavens for Netflix.