Built in 1942 by a maverick film preservationist, this small Los Angeles theater championed silent film at the very moment when the Hollywood studios across town were busily destroying their nitrate inventories. With hard chairs, phonograph-record accompaniments, and mostly original vintage prints, the dingy mom-and-pop operation was nonetheless a palace to the fanatical few who became its loyal audience.
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
2019
6.9/10
Visions of Light
1992
7.0/10
Los Angeles Plays Itself
2004
7.6/10
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
2003
7.1/10
Mifune: The Last Samurai
2016
7.1/10
The Director and the Jedi
2018
7.2/10
Love, Gilda
2018
7.2/10
Corman's World
2011
7.1/10
Being James Bond
2021
7.8/10
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
2004
7.0/10
De Palma
2016
7.0/10
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000
7.7/10
I Am Heath Ledger
2017
7.4/10
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
2003
6.9/10
Spielberg
2017
7.6/10
A Decade Under the Influence
2003
7.9/10
Friedkin Uncut
2018
7.1/10
Milius
2013
7.1/10
QT8: The First Eight
2019
7.2/10
I Know That Voice
2014
7.1/10
Return to Nostalgia
2015
0/10
