Royal Cinema
Stacey Donen’s Royal Cinema continues to serve as a haven for movies that would otherwise go directly from the festival circuit to home video. Gus Van Sant’s Paranoid Park, Jacques Rivette’s The Duchess Of Langeais, Carlos Reygadas’s Silent Light, David Lynch’s Inland Empire, the Duplass brothers’ Baghead – when they come to town, they come to the Royal, where appreciative audiences can bask in their arty glory (and dissect the experience over wings at Duff’s afterwards). Now, if they could just get those ancient seats to stop squeaking….
