An Idea for All Those Screens
After reading “Will Supply Outstrip Demand?” (Nov. 29), I’m still left with a question that’s never addressed in the discussions of megaplex theaters and their 20-plus screens. If there is indeed a risk of building these things “faster than Hollywood can put out movies appealing enough to keep them filled,” why not devote one or two, maybe even (gulp) three of the smaller screens to the non-Hollywood fare--independent films and foreign films--that seldom play at a theater or drive-in near anybody except inhabitants of the Westside?
There seems to be this prejudice by both distributors and exhibitors that anyone living east of the 405 just can’t fathom such films.
My only hope at present is the AMC megaplex building in nearby Fullerton. I’m hoping they’ll be smart enough to offer a few of those non-Hollywood flicks for the Fullerton College and Cal State Fullerton crowd. And I, disguised as an aging sophomore, will be able to sneak in with them. (I’d better go buy a backpack).
DAVID BUTLER
La Mirada
Only good movies
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