The end of mini-theaters?

[amy loa]

Oh my god!
That is a really bad news. What is happening in this world. Seems all the
lovely things are disappearing;-(
Should not we do something to save what we love???




2011/1/8 Aaron Gerow <aaron.gerow at yale.edu>

> The news services announce that Cine Saison, one of the most important
> mini-theaters in Tokyo since the 1980s, will be closing at the end of
> February. This follows the announcement about the Ebisu Garden Cinema, which
> will close at the end of this month. While both specialized in foreign
> films, the news only adds to speculations and fears that mini-theaters, one
> of the only venues for alternative foreign and domestic cinema in Japan
> against the stranglehold of the multiplexes, are dying off.
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> Aaron Gerow
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> Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures
> Yale University
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