ok so this isn't a ranked thing it's just the cinemas i actually trust with my attention span — the ones where i've skipped a closing shift at the cafe to catch a 35mm print or a weird experimental thing nobody else on my feed is posting about. half these places i found because some NYU film kid i matched with on hinge wouldn't shut up about them (affectionate). if you see me in the back row with oat milk coffee i snuck in, no you didn't.
brutalist fortress, essential cinema vault, zero frills
avant-garde stuff you'll namedrop for months
this is the jonas mekas building — ok catching you up: he's the lithuanian filmmaker who basically invented the diary film and cofounded this place in 1970, it's a whole lineage
TheLysts
