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Originally Posted by RobertR
Every time I've gone to a repertory showing in Los Angeles, it's quite well attended.
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How often is that, though? For example, the Brattle gets big audiences for events and evergreen films: The yearly holiday showings of
Casablanca,
It's A Wonderful Life, and
Evil Dead 2, for instance, sell out, but when they do something a little more obscure, attendance can drop like a stone. If all you ever go to is the big name stuff, yes, it can seem like the rep theater is doing quite well, but show up the next week for the Wong Kar-wai retrospective, and you may get a different story.
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