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
6.9/10
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
2018
7.2/10
Being James Bond
2021
7.8/10
I Am Heath Ledger
2017
7.4/10
Inside Deep Throat
2005
6.4/10
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000
7.8/10
Spielberg
2017
7.5/10
Corman's World
2011
7.0/10
Mifune: The Last Samurai
2016
7.0/10
QT8: The First Eight
2019
7.2/10
Los Angeles Plays Itself
2004
7.6/10
Come See Me in the Good Light
2025
7.1/10
Maria by Callas
2017
7.4/10
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
Directed by John Ford
1971
7.0/10
A Decade Under the Influence
2003
7.9/10
Jodorowsky's Dune
2013
7.8/10
John Candy: I Like Me
2025
7.9/10
Filmmakers of Our Time: François Truffaut or the Critical Spirit
1965
7.5/10
