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

Sidney
2022
7.0/10

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
2018
7.2/10

The Director and the Jedi
2018
7.4/10

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

Being James Bond
2021
7.8/10

Mifune: The Last Samurai
2016
7.0/10

Los Angeles Plays Itself
2004
7.6/10

Corman's World
2011
7.0/10

Inside Deep Throat
2005
6.5/10

I Am Heath Ledger
2017
7.4/10

Love, Gilda
2018
7.2/10

Friedkin Uncut
2018
7.1/10

Spielberg
2017
7.5/10

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

QT8: The First Eight
2019
7.2/10

Altman
2014
6.6/10

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

Milius
2013
7.1/10

Attack of the Hollywood Clichés!
2021
6.0/10
The Scars
2019
10/10