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Journal
Journal
August 13, 2026
How we chose this season’s Silent Sundays
Live accompaniment is the constraint that actually decides the programme, not taste.
August 13, 2026
The marquee letters that never came back after 1974
The letterboard generator on this site uses the house's real channel width. Here's where that number comes from.
August 13, 2026
Founding members remember opening night, 1927
Three letters from the house archive, reprinted with permission of the families who kept them.
August 13, 2026
A rare 70mm print of Lawrence of Arabia arrives in October
One performance, one print, and a booth crew who have been rehearsing the reel changes for a month.
August 13, 2026
Why we still run a 35mm print when we can
A projected answer to the question we get asked at nearly every box office shift.
August 13, 2026
The 2013 restoration, told through the projection booth
The auditorium ceiling gets the photographs. The booth is where the actual argument about what kind of cinema we would become happened.