ATB, Reel Cinemas is a small regional chain, so not the corporate monolith that is Bowtie. I am not sure what the deal with Bowtie was because I started managing 7-8 months after that. It seems though that they realized fairly quickly that they didn’t want to stay around. However the theater is very pretty and so many elements of the “Egyptian Revival theme” are still here (anyone interested please stop in and ask for Karl, I manage most days of the week, I will happily give a tour). We are also trying to balance our projection setup where we have 35mm and digital. Trying to see if we can create some interesting 35mm repertory events, while still playing first-run features, like a horror film marathon we’re doing on October 31st, 2014 in conjunction with Exhumed Films. We hope to do more special events, hopefully on “celluloid”, since they will fit so well with the theater’s classic aesthetic.
ATB, Reel Cinemas is a small regional chain, so not the corporate monolith that is Bowtie. I am not sure what the deal with Bowtie was because I started managing 7-8 months after that. It seems though that they realized fairly quickly that they didn’t want to stay around. However the theater is very pretty and so many elements of the “Egyptian Revival theme” are still here (anyone interested please stop in and ask for Karl, I manage most days of the week, I will happily give a tour). We are also trying to balance our projection setup where we have 35mm and digital. Trying to see if we can create some interesting 35mm repertory events, while still playing first-run features, like a horror film marathon we’re doing on October 31st, 2014 in conjunction with Exhumed Films. We hope to do more special events, hopefully on “celluloid”, since they will fit so well with the theater’s classic aesthetic.