Nonprofit cinemas.
Community-owned screens run for the love of 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.
Lark Theater
Larkspur, CA
A community-run Art Deco theater in downtown Larkspur that pairs limited-run and indie films with filmed opera and theater, family matinees, classic revivals and live jazz.
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.
Egyptian Theatre
Los Angeles, CA
Hollywood's 1922 Egyptian-themed movie palace, with retrospectives, 70mm presentations, and guest Q&As. American Cinematheque programs Friday through Sunday; Netflix, the owner, programs earlier in the week.
Los Feliz 3 Cinemas
Los Angeles, CA
American Cinematheque's Los Feliz theater, with special engagements, retrospectives, and filmmaker Q&As on a limited-run schedule.
4-Star Theatre
San Francisco, CA
A 1913 Richmond District neighborhood theater run by a nonprofit and known for repertory and cult screenings, such as Willy Wonka, Brazil and a local film club.
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.
Balboa Theatre
San Francisco, CA
A 1926 Outer Richmond neighborhood theater run by a nonprofit, with a nightly mix of repertory and cult films, some on 35mm, and themed events like live drag screenings.
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.
Chicago Filmmakers
Chicago, IL
A Chicago film arts nonprofit that runs screenings and community events at its Firehouse Cinema in Edgewater, and presents the Onion City experimental film festival and the Reeling LGBTQ+ festival.
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.
Wilmette Theatre
Wilmette, IL
A nonprofit neighborhood theatre in downtown Wilmette that mixes current releases with live music, storytelling, comedy and film festivals. Wednesday evenings are band nights, and the building can be rented for private events.
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.
Martha's Vineyard Film Center
Vineyard Haven, MA
Martha's Vineyard Film Center is a nonprofit community cinema in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, at 79 Beach Road.
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.
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.