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Old 08-21-2022, 10:46 AM
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Originally Posted by MandoMan View Post
Thirty years ago I used to see almost every film that showed up at the cineplex. In the five years before Covid I saw maybe one movie a year at a theater and resented the outrageous prices. I’ve gone to no theaters since Covid hit and don’t plan to return. Now I watch movies in bed on a screen six feet wide, and a month of Netflix costs about as much as one movie for two.

When I was in college there were half a dozen old theaters in town (Denver) that showed great movies of the past, two for a dollar, changing films daily. For example, a week of Bogart movies, or Chaplin movies, or Ingmar Bergman movies, or Screwball comedies, or Cary Grant movies, or John Ford movies, or Truffaut movies. It was a great way to gain an appreciation of movie history. But those days are gone.
They did play old movies at the Rialto and are doing that now at the Sharon on Tuesdays through Thursdays. Cinema Series at The Sharon - The Villages Entertainment

I saw about 8 horror movies at the Rialto during a film festival. Old Frankenstein, the Mummy, the Invisible Man, Dracula flicks. This was around Spring of 2020.

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