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Box offices are reeling, but revival cinemas roll
Los Angeles Times
|September 21, 2025
A grainy circle flashes on the top-right corner of the screen at the Eagle Theater.
VIDIOTS projectionist Jason Moore rewinds a film in the movie theater's projection booth last week.
The single-screen repertory cinema, run by the nonprofit organization Vidiots, was showing a 35-millimeter print of Paul Thomas Anderson’s psychological drama “The Master.”
The faint warning is easily missed by most viewers, but it appears every 10 minutes, alerting the projectionist to change the reel.
The auditorium was sold out. Audience members clapped as the film title appeared onscreen. There was a buzz in the air even before the lights faded to black with the standby line filled with hopefuls trying to grab a last-minute ticket. The stakes were high for the person manning the reel exchange.
Michael Rousselet, a projectionist at the Eagle Rock theater, often drinks a lot of coffee to stay alert during late-night screenings.
“If we do a good job, no one knows we exist,” Rousselet quipped as he showed off the projection booth. “If we mess up, everyone knows we exist.”
The carefully curated communal experience offered by repertory theaters is enduring the hardships of to entry are erected for those with lesser means and others seen as taking away jobs that could be occupied by U.S. citizens.
The pomp with which Trump announced the programs echoed the theme — over his right shoulder as he spoke to reporters in the Oval Office was an image of a gold card with his face on it along with traditional American images including a bald eagle, all in gold.
It’s a stark shift from America’s stance toward immigration historically, which welcomed those of various economic backgrounds coming to the country legally in search of a better life and more freedom.
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