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Row House is Rep Cinema in a League of Its Own

The state of Pennsylvania is not necessarily the first place one conjures when thinking of repertory cinema, but for over a decade the Row House Cinema on Butler Street in Pittsburgh’s Lawrenceville neighborhood has thrived. This is mostly due to the care and curation of the theatre’s owner /…

Locarno Pro panel, August 2023 (l-r Jaume Ripoll; Elise Cochin; Ronald Chammah; K.J. Relth-Miller; Frédéric Maire; Erin Farrell; Jay Weissberg).

Locarno: Market Classics Like New Releases, Says Panel of Experts

On 7 August, the Locarno Film Festival hosted a Heritage Online panel titled “Theatrical Distribution and Streaming of Classics,” moderated by critic and programmer Jay Weissberg. The panel was comprised of Ronald Chammah (Les Film Camelia); Frédéric Maire (Cinématèque Suisse); Elise Cochin (mk2); J…

Imax

Daily Cinema Digest – Monday 23 February 2015

Imax’s quarterly earnings were down slightly, but ahead of Wall Street’s expectations. The company said that it is focusing on international expansion and expects to cross 1,000 screens this year. IMAX Corporation signaled that international markets will be an ongoing focus in the years…

End of line for SF’s repertory cinemas?

The age of Netflix:ed DVDs and Tivo:ed TMC repeats of film classics has not been kind to repertory cinemas. The SF Chronicle chronics the declining audience numbers for the city’s most venerable rep houses: All exhibitors concur that the prospects for repertory in San Francisco have become dow…