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MAY 18, 2020
Long Live the Movie Theater Marquee
We don’t know how long movie theaters across America will remain dark. But until their reopening is safe, venue owners from sea to shining sea are trying to keep up morale by using their marquees to display funny, encouraging, poignant messages that sometimes employ particularly apt movie quotes—like this chestnut from Back to the Future: “Marty, you must not leave the house. Anything you do could have serious repercussions on future events.” Small-theater owners especially are trying to stick together as the pandemic rages on. “I think there’s been a lot of camaraderie amongst the art house cinemas because, quite frankly, it’s tough for art house cinemas in the best of times,” Ray Barker, program director of the North Park Theatre in Buffalo, told Yohana Desta. He, at least, seems sanguine about the theater’s chances of opening its doors again in the not-too-distant future. “November will be our hundredth birthday, and we’ve survived a lot of things,” he said. “So I think coronavirus is just another thing that we’ll survive.”
Elsewhere in HWD, K. Austin Collins remembers the late, great Fred Willard; Daveed Diggs chats with Anthony Breznican about TNT’s Snowpiercer TV show; Christopher Rosen ponders the meaning of The Last Dance as ESPN’s blockbuster docuseries wraps its run; and Collins also recommends a new quarantine watch: the enigmatic 2013 film Upstream Color.
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