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
6.8/10

Visions of Light
1992
7.0/10

Love, Gilda
2018
7.2/10

Mifune: The Last Samurai
2016
7.1/10

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
2003
7.1/10

The Director and the Jedi
2018
7.3/10

Corman's World
2011
7.1/10

Being James Bond
2021
7.8/10

I Am Heath Ledger
2017
7.4/10

The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
2004
7.0/10

Friedkin Uncut
2018
7.1/10

Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
2003
6.9/10

A Decade Under the Influence
2003
7.9/10

RKO 281
1999
6.4/10

Milius
2013
7.0/10

Mank
2020
6.7/10

Spielberg
2017
7.6/10

Supersonic
2016
7.4/10

Room 237
2012
6.1/10

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
2013
6.9/10
Tim Maia
2014
7.187/10