Very interesting commentary about how little news coverage the NuWilshire’s closing received. I’ve lived down the street from the NuWilshire for 20 years, and I always enjoyed walking there to catch an intelligent, usually foreign, movie. I recently saw both Into the Wild and Eastern Promises, and there was no indication of imminent closure. I was shocked when, all of a sudden, the theatre’s marquis just went blank and the lights went out. Not even a sign in the window to say what happened. But then, we live in a country where the government can make a “pre-emptive” attack on a foreign nation without the slightest questioning by the news media. The closing of a classic movie house? Wouldn’t even get a mention in the back pages. The sad truth is, not only have we lost a local treasure, we’ve lost the more important safeguards once provided by responsible investigative journalism.
Very interesting commentary about how little news coverage the NuWilshire’s closing received. I’ve lived down the street from the NuWilshire for 20 years, and I always enjoyed walking there to catch an intelligent, usually foreign, movie. I recently saw both Into the Wild and Eastern Promises, and there was no indication of imminent closure. I was shocked when, all of a sudden, the theatre’s marquis just went blank and the lights went out. Not even a sign in the window to say what happened. But then, we live in a country where the government can make a “pre-emptive” attack on a foreign nation without the slightest questioning by the news media. The closing of a classic movie house? Wouldn’t even get a mention in the back pages. The sad truth is, not only have we lost a local treasure, we’ve lost the more important safeguards once provided by responsible investigative journalism.