Thanks for asking, Fed!
It’s Cinemark 17, 2900 Gateway St., Springfield, OR, 97477
Just 614 m from my house!
The West theater in Duluth MN.
We have an Imax elsewhere in town but The West is a single screen theater owned by a local couple who wanted their old neighborhood cinema back.
I don’t go to the movies often, but I always try to go there. And it’s the closest to my house too.
Within 15 minutes Drive I have:
- A local community-run cinema that has been restored to it’s art deco glory
- A multiplex
20-25 minutes away I have:
- A central cinema in the same chain that has an IMAX screen and tends to show more obscure and foreign-language films (rule of thumb seems to be they are the ones screening Chinese and Korean films, it’s 50:50 on whether my closer one does Indian films)
- A cinema from a different chain, so if the above aren’t showing it I may be able to find it there.
So if I want something niche, I may have to shop around but I can usually find it.
Way back in the day it used to be Cinema City in Norwich: the only art-house one in the city and where I ‘learnt’ cinema. It was great.
These days, I live between three small town cinemas in Suffolk, and they are all good in their own ways.
The Riverside in Woodbridge often has a talk about the film or maybe even an interview with the director or one of the cast etc on stage afterwards. Aldeburgh Cinema is run by a charity, shows a good few NT live events and local films and also has a documentary fest each year, and Leiston Film Theatre is, as they say on their site, the oldest purpose built cinema in the county (110 years now), and had the advantage for a while of being about 150m from our back gate. It is the most commercial of three in terms of programme, but still has some interesting stuff.
An Alamo Drafthouse opened up near us not too long ago. We got the monthly membership where tickets are basically free because all they really want is to sell you food and beer. Been going to movies more often than ever over the last year.
St Louis.
I am a little concerned about Sony buying out the chain last month. Hope it does not immediately go downhill.
