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| - The Regent Square Theater...a great place to go for film lovers.
I have all but stopped going to 'the movies' because of the general societal behavior at the cineplexes. I am a film geek all the way, and when I go to see something on a big screen I am seriously going to see a 'film' that is art presented as it is intended to be seen...large. I do not go to a cinema for the social aspect, or to kill time with a date, or to just get out for an evening, with what's showing on the screen being secondary to the purpose of the evening.
When I go to see a film, I do NOT go to listen to the conversations of others, the bleeping of the cell phones, the clicking of mindless text messaging or silly giggling that comes from someone's interaction that has nothing to do with what's on the screen.
This is where the Regent Square Theater wins. This is a cinema for serious film lovers. You may not find a HUGE audience, but what you will find is an audience of people who know how to behave in a cinema, who are there for the same purpose...to see a good film on a big screen. The audience at the Regent Square theater know directors, and they might actually be able to hold a conversation about the director, his or her films, other similar films and directors, and they know to wait to do it when the film has ended.
The Regent Square is a very comfortable old-style small theater. One screen. Small reasonably friendly staff, affordable prices (although the last night I went the popcorn, which was cheap, was also a tad stale) and most importantly...a venue for excellent films. Foreign, indie, documentary...and some classics thrown in regularly to enable us to see some of those old gems on a big screen, where most of them were meant to be. I never realized how important that big screen was until I'd seen The Wizard Of Oz, after years of mini-televised viewings with chopped and hacked commercial interruptions, on a big screen at a special showing somewhere else. One who doesn't watch these things on a big screen doesn't know what they're missing by not seeing the full large scope of the intended art.
Some (in this era, I can't claim 'many') directors truly do use the big screen when creating their art. Jeunet, Almodovar, and a few others still do present film as art, and the Regent Square (and Pittsburgh Filmmakers who operates it) bring these gems to that big screen.
And to a film aficionado, the right atmosphere is crucial when getting lost in this art. The Regent Square Theater knows this, and so do its audiences.
Thank you for providing an intellectual oasis in da burgh...and a great evening of cinema enjoyment.
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