The Projectionist
(2020, original release: 2019)

Fiction

eVideo

Provider: Kanopy

Details

PUBLISHED
Kino Lorber, 2019
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2020
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (streaming video file) (83 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

ISBN/ISSN
11847669
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Title from title frames

This documentary portrait of theater operator Nicolas “Nick” Nicolaou moves from 1970s Times Square adult film houses through decades of city regulation, chain takeovers, and cultural shifts, charting a charming odyssey through the history of film exhibition and New York City. Abel Ferrara traces the life and work of friend and fellow cinephile Nicolas “Nick” Nicolaou, a Cypriot immigrant who began working as a teenager in small neighborhood movie theaters around Manhattan, defying gentrification, changing viewing habits and corporate dominance in the 1980s, only to emerge decades later as one of New York City's last independent theater owners. A moving tribute to friendship, tenacity and the love of cinema, THE PROJECTIONIST is also a timely paean to what going to the movies is all about. Official Selection at the **Tribeca Film Festival**

Film

In Process Record

Abel Ferrara, Nicolas Nicolaou

Originally produced by Kino Lorber in 2019

Mode of access: World Wide Web

In English,Greek

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