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Located on Trader’s Alley, this pint-sized movie house shows one film at a time and has a dedicated local following.
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Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 3 Apr. 2025
Catch up quick: Built in 1939, the venue operated as a movie house before transitioning to a dinner theater in 1978.
—Linh Ta, Axios, 10 Mar. 2025
The Lyric Theater, which was built in the 1920s as a silent movie house, regularly hosts plays, musicals, and performances from big-name talent in its grand, 500-seat theater.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 7 Mar. 2025
For years, this independent movie theater has been beloved by such movie greats as Quentin Tarantino and Paul Thomas Anderson, who are just a few cinephiles who consider it perhaps the greatest movie house in the world.
—airmail.news, 1 Feb. 2025
Nicki Wilson was shocked when her local newspaper reported in March 2023 that the Triplex Theater, an independent four-screen movie house in Great Barrington, Mass., was shutting down after almost three decades in business.
—Jim Zarroli, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
For the first 25 years of its existence, Square One operated out of a former movie house in the Stratford Center historic district.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 10 Jan. 2025
In 1960s Vietnam, a family-run movie house becomes a sanctuary for a boy amid war.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 2 Sep. 2024
His father, Fabien, ran a neighborhood movie house, and his mother, Édith, worked at a pharmacy.
—Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Aug. 2024
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Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 3 Apr. 2025
Catch up quick: Built in 1939, the venue operated as a movie house before transitioning to a dinner theater in 1978.
—Linh Ta, Axios, 10 Mar. 2025
The Lyric Theater, which was built in the 1920s as a silent movie house, regularly hosts plays, musicals, and performances from big-name talent in its grand, 500-seat theater.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 7 Mar. 2025
For years, this independent movie theater has been beloved by such movie greats as Quentin Tarantino and Paul Thomas Anderson, who are just a few cinephiles who consider it perhaps the greatest movie house in the world.
—airmail.news, 1 Feb. 2025
Nicki Wilson was shocked when her local newspaper reported in March 2023 that the Triplex Theater, an independent four-screen movie house in Great Barrington, Mass., was shutting down after almost three decades in business.
—Jim Zarroli, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
For the first 25 years of its existence, Square One operated out of a former movie house in the Stratford Center historic district.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 10 Jan. 2025
In 1960s Vietnam, a family-run movie house becomes a sanctuary for a boy amid war.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 2 Sep. 2024
His father, Fabien, ran a neighborhood movie house, and his mother, Édith, worked at a pharmacy.
—Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Aug. 2024
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“Movie house.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/movie%20house. Accessed 13 May. 2025.
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