Film Details

The ticket seller is surly, the projectionist is tipsy, the shabby auditorium is a flea-pit, and business is lousy. If this sounds like the old Cinematheque, it isn’t. It’s the Bijou Kinema, a run-down British movie house newly inherited by a young couple (Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers) who have also inherited the cinema’s eccentric staff. (Projectionist Peter Sellers and box office worker Margaret Rutherford are among them.) Shall the new owners shutter the theater and sell the property to their main competitor? (He needs a parking lot for his modern Grand cinema.) Or try to make a go of it, against all odds? Don’t miss this delightful British comedy classic in a 35mm print imported from England. Preceded at 7:00 by Charles R. Bowers’ outrageous silent comedy Now You Tell One (USA, 1926, co-directed by Harold L. Muller, DCP), a largely forgotten screen gem. Total 102 min.