40 years ago, a cinema in Girona called Orient It stopped being a projection room, which was mythical, and became a block of flats. A sign of the times that had to come, a premonitory sign for so many cinemas that suffered the same end. Times also past, because the trend to close cinemas is not from now or 40 years ago. Peter Bogdanovich, who died a few days ago, filmed ‘The last picture show’, a film about the disappearance of theaters and, indeed, about the disappearance of a world. That is why that Orient said goodbye with the symbolic message of a film that was precisely that last film that ends with the image of the poor lonely boy in town as he sweeps, meaningless, a dusty street.
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Bogdanovich, one of the most interesting (and cursed) filmmakers In the 20th century, a fate-mistreated movie buff who shot magnificent comedies and delicate sentimental stories, has another film that could also be the last screening of any theater that closes. In ‘Saint Jack’, a twilight story in Singapore, he again talks about an ending and a friendship, and of fidelities and things that fade. In a cinema, in life.
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