The
Last Reel Film Festival
The Last Reel Film Festival will honor a few of the Little
Art Theatre’s “Most-Loved Films” as part of the Little Art’s temporary goodbye
before closing for major renovations.
The Last Reel Film Festival runs from Friday, April 26,
through Tuesday, April 30. The movies, selected for their popularity over the
last fifty years, are King of Hearts
(unrated, 1966); Harold and Maude
(PG, 1971); ET (PG, 1982); Cinema Paradiso (PG, 1988); and Amelie (R, 2001). The final show will be
Cinema Paradiso, about movies,
memories, love, and a small theater in a Sicilian village—a fitting way to say
farewell to the Little Art’s vintage Italian reel-to-reel projectors.
The festival follows the nonprofit organization’s wrap-up of
a successful 2012 capital campaign, which met its fundraising goal of $475,000
towards an industry-mandated transition to digital projection. The trend
toward digital projection is exemplified by lack of availability of quality
35mm prints: for Cinema Paradiso and Harold and Maude, the only available
prints have serious flaws. (The latter will be projected from a Blu-ray;
quality permitting, the former will still be shown from 35mm, but after
evaluating the print Little Art management may decide to show it digitally as
well.) For ET, on the other
hand, a brand new 35mm print marking the movie’s 30th anniversary will be
shown.
The historic theater, which has operated continuously since
1929, will close immediately after the festival for several months while
undergoing a transformation to digital technology and a renovation of the lobby
and auditorium.
During the festival, the Little Art’s lobby will exhibit
original work by the late Dick Miller, an artist who painted custom posters for
the theater from the 1950s through the 1980s. A selection of monthly program
guides, which were a familiar sight on local refrigerators for decades, will be
on display, along with other pieces of Little Art memorabilia. Ticket prices
will also temporarily go back in time: $7.50 for adults, $6.50 for children
under 12, seniors, and college students with ID and $6.00 for matinees.
Festival-goers are invited to show their love for the Little
Art Theatre:
•Wear a Little Art T-shirt to the
show and receive a free soft drink, tea, or coffee.
•Share memories of the Little Art
on the Memory Wall in the lobby and on Facebook.
•Take a photo in the “I Heart the
Little Art!” corner.
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