In My Theatre (2019), a century-old film home springs to life with the unmistakable sound of movie flickering via a projector. Though the Motomiya Film Theater in Japan has been principally defunct since 1964, its proprietor Shuji Tamura nonetheless retains it operational, preserving the expertise of seeing a movie on movie, earlier than the age of multiplexes and digitisation. The Japanese director Kazuya Ashizawa’s charming observational portrait captures Tamura as he screens outdated motion pictures for an viewers of scholars and cinephiles, and provides behind-the-scenes excursions of the cinema. Combining captured sounds and a poignant accordion rating, Ashizawa appears to discover a candy nostalgia in each the historic area and the person who tends to it. This brief documentary was made earlier than the theatre was threatened by – and saved from – flooding brought on by a storm in October 2019.
