[GormanFletcher]

Before everything shut down last year, my local theaters played a showing of a classic film each month, often Hitchcock. The few I went to had plenty of attendees.

Another local theater took the lockdown as an opportunity to do outdoor socially-distanced showings of previous blockbusters, like The Dark Knight. Plenty of attendees there, too.

I'd be happy to have more showings like that.

[blooalien]

We have a neat theater in the town I live in called "Brewvies" (it's a pub/theater) that on weekends often shows classic old cinema matinees for free. There's also a group that shows "classic" movies in the parks for free, too. Much fun!

[jtwaleson]

Interesting! Where is this? In Amsterdam I know one theater that's showing old films and that's the 1% I was talking about ;)

[eatonphil]

Sharing from somewhere totally different: NYC has a number of theaters that show (mostly or half-half) not-new kids films, art films, and cult classics like Miyazaki or Blaxploitation films.

These theaters are typically small businesses owned by locals who have been in the business for decades. But there are also some US chains like Alamo Drafthouse that do this too.

On a slight tangent, in the suburbs of Lancaster, PA the chain theaters ran free re-runs of children's movies in the summer each Wednesday morning.

[GormanFletcher]

I'm in Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina, USA.

[clydethefrog]

Which theatre in Amsterdam? Lab111?

[jtwaleson]

Some place on the Ceintuurbaan around Sarphatipark. I often cycled past there on my way to work but never managed to visit.