The Projectionist

Name: The Projectionist
Genre: Documentary
Released: October 2, 2020
Duration: 81 min
Rating: 65
Cast: Abel Ferrara, Nicolas Nicolaou

2020

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Kino Lorber | Release Date: October 2, 2020 | Not Rated

Starring: Abel Ferrara, Nicolas Nicolaou

Summary: This documentary portrait of theater operator Nicolas “Nick” Nicolaou moves from 1970s Times Square adult film houses through decades of city regulation, chain takeovers, and cultural shifts, charting a charming odyssey through the history of film exhibition and New York City. Abel Ferrara traces the life and work of friend and fellowThis documentary portrait of theater operator Nicolas “Nick” Nicolaou moves from 1970s Times Square adult film houses through decades of city regulation, chain takeovers, and cultural shifts, charting a charming odyssey through the history of film exhibition and New York City. Abel Ferrara traces the life and work of friend and fellow cinephile Nicolas “Nick” Nicolaou, a Cypriot immigrant who began working as a teenager in small neighborhood movie theaters around Manhattan, defying gentrification, changing viewing habits and corporate dominance in the 1980s, only to emerge decades later as one of New York City's last independent theater owners. A moving tribute to friendship, tenacity and the love of cinema, The Projectionist is also a timely paean to what going to the movies is all about.… Expand

Director: Abel Ferrara

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 81 min

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The Film Stage John Fink

May 3, 2019

The joy of Ferrara’s The Projectionist is simply in getting to know its subject. Read full review

Sam C. Mac

May 2, 2019

Where The Projectionist ultimately excels ... is as the kind of cultural microcosm that makes Ferrara’s other documentaries feel at once urgent and incredibly rich in their broader implications. Read full review

The Playlist Chris Barsanti

May 7, 2019

A thin but heartfelt piece of work ... But with Ferrara content to let his subject mostly drive the show and not impose more of an authorial vision and context that could have created a grander narrative about the history of moviegoing in New York, the passion is missing. Read full review

Todd McCarthy

May 2, 2019

This labor of love should be embraced wherever the term cinephile means anything. Read full review

The Guardian Charles Bramesco

May 2, 2019

For cinephiles, this will be effective propaganda in service of a belief they already hold, a reaffirmation of their purist convictions from a simpatico mind. ... [But it] can sometimes slip into slightness, as Ferrara pads an already slim run time. Read full review

Wendy Ide

May 2, 2019

It’s possible ... that in his affection for and identification with Nicolaou, Ferrera has over-estimated the fascination of his subject’s life story. Read full review

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