Art house cinemas.
Independent screens built around curated, artist-driven film.
Mary D. Fisher Theatre
Sedona, AZ
The one-screen home of the Sedona International Film Festival in West Sedona, showing independent and art house films year-round. It also hosts concerts and festival events on a small stage.
Loft Cinema
Tucson, AZ
Tucson's nonprofit art house on Speedway, with four indoor screens and an open-air cinema. It mixes new independent releases with cult nights, classics, a film festival, and 35mm and 70mm presentations in its large main room.
Screening Room
Tucson, AZ
A small downtown Tucson art house on Congress Street that shows independent films and hosts live-event screenings with filmmaker appearances. It is a regular venue for the Arizona International Film Festival.
Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley, CA
The film program of the Berkeley Art Museum, with retrospectives, restored classics and international cinema on a university-run schedule. Members get half-price tickets, and the 232-seat theater sits in a 2016 building on Center Street.
Lumiere Cinema
Beverly Hills, CA
A Beverly Hills art-house cinema on Wilshire Boulevard that bills itself as the city's only one. It plays independent films with filmmaker Q&As and hosts a monthly open screen for short films.
Laemmle Town Center 5
Encino, CA
A five-screen Encino cinema run by the family-owned Laemmle chain, which has operated in Los Angeles since 1938. It plays new independent, foreign and documentary releases.
Laemmle Glendale
Glendale, CA
A five-screen Glendale cinema in the Laemmle chain, a Los Angeles name since 1938. It shows new independent, foreign and documentary releases.
Art Theatre
Long Beach, CA
A 1920s neighborhood theater on Long Beach's Retro Row, run as a community nonprofit. It mixes independent first-run films with repertory series, 16mm nights, and filmmaker conversations.
Laemmle NoHo 7
Los Angeles, CA
The North Hollywood multiplex of the Laemmle chain, which has booked independent and international films in Los Angeles since 1938.
Laemmle Royal Theatre
Los Angeles, CA
The West Los Angeles house of the Laemmle chain on Santa Monica Boulevard, showing independent and international releases.
Artists' Television Access
San Francisco, CA
An artist-run nonprofit screening room and gallery on Valencia Street in the Mission, showing experimental and underground work, open screenings and a Saturday-night series hosted by an artist in residence.
Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center
San Rafael, CA
A film center in downtown San Rafael run by the California Film Institute. It mixes new independent releases with documentaries, talk-back screenings and stage-to-screen broadcasts of ballet and theater.
Frida Cinema
Santa Ana, CA
A two-screen nonprofit in downtown Santa Ana that mixes art-house, cult and classic programming with themed film series. It also offers captioned and assisted-listening screenings, film club memberships and outdoor cinema rentals.
Laemmle Monica Film Center
Santa Monica, CA
A Laemmle arthouse in downtown Santa Monica focused on independent and international releases, many with English subtitles, and regular filmmaker Q&As. Captioning devices are available and the first 90 minutes of nearby garage parking are free.
Facets Cinematheque
Chicago, IL
A nonprofit film center in Lincoln Park, established in 1975, that mixes restorations, cult and international titles with short-film festivals and Family Sunday screenings. It also offers film camps and venue rentals.
Gene Siskel Film Center
Chicago, IL
The School of the Art Institute's two-screen cinematheque on State Street, showing international, independent and classic films and hosting festivals such as Black Harvest and the European Union Film Festival.
Remis Auditorium at the Museum of Fine Arts
Boston, MA
The museum's film program, showing international features, documentaries and festival partner series on weekend dates. Ongoing strands include Art on Film and Global Cinema Now, and university students get discounted tickets.
Coolidge Corner Theatre
Brookline, MA
A six-screen nonprofit cinema in a 1933 Art Deco house in Brookline. It pairs new independent releases with classics, midnight cult shows, 35mm and 70mm engagements, kids shows and discussion series.
Clairidge
Montclair, NJ
Montclair Film's main Bloomfield Avenue screen for new independent, international and documentary releases, with opera broadcasts from the Met added to the calendar.
Basie Center Cinemas
Red Bank, NJ
The film arm of Red Bank's Count Basie Center for the Arts, a nonprofit that took over an existing cinema in 2020 and shows independent releases and occasional classic screenings.
Bellevue Theatre
Upper Montclair, NJ
Montclair Film's Upper Montclair screen, mixing new independent and documentary releases with a B-Sides series of cult favorites, B-movies and oddities.
BAM Rose Cinemas
Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn Academy of Music's film program, combining new independent and international releases with retrospectives and a summer film festival, in screens inside the Peter Jay Sharp Building.
Film Forum
New York, NY
A four-screen nonprofit cinema on West Houston Street pairing new independent releases with repertory series and restorations, including 35mm prints. Film Forum Jr. runs family matinees.
IFC Center
New York, NY
A five-screen Greenwich Village cinema showing new independent and foreign releases, documentaries and late-night favorites, often with director Q&As. It is the main venue for the DOC NYC festival and offers open-captioned shows.
Metrograph
New York, NY
A two-screen Lower East Side cinema that blends director retrospectives and repertory classics with new releases and filmmaker Q&As. It has a restaurant and bar upstairs and a film-focused shop.
Quad Cinema
New York, NY
A four-screen Greenwich Village cinema that plays themed retrospectives and new independent releases, with 35mm prints and a long-running Rocky Horror program. The current series is Femme Noir.
Roxy Cinema Tribeca
New York, NY
A basement art-house cinema in a Tribeca hotel, styled after 1920s movie palaces, showing independent releases, archival prints and 35mm cult favorites with Q&As. It sells popcorn, beer, wine and cocktails.
Jacob Burns Film Center
Pleasantville, NY
A nonprofit three-screen film center in downtown Pleasantville, showing independent and documentary releases with filmmaker discussions. It also runs education programs and a wine bar and cafe open Thursday to Sunday.
5th Avenue Cinema
Portland, OR
A student-run campus cinema at Portland State University that screens world cinema, silent-era programs and cult films, some on 35mm, in a weekend-only schedule. Screenings are free for PSU students and open to the public.
CineMagic Theater
Portland, OR
A Hawthorne Boulevard repertory house that fills the calendar with themed series: VHS nights, movie quizzes, family matinees and late-night oddities, plus visiting filmmakers. Tickets run about $10, less for matinees and students.
Tomorrow Theater
Portland, OR
A restored 1925 theater on Division Street run by the Portland Art Museum's film and media center. It programs queer cinema, documentaries and family matinees, plus comedy, music and book events.