Space for Independents?
After reading “The Big Screen Test” (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 Freeway just can’t fathom such films.
DAVID BUTLER
La Mirada
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