Repertory cinemas.
Classics, revivals, and retrospectives back on the big screen.
Orpheum Theatre
Phoenix, AZ
A 1929 Spanish Renaissance movie palace in downtown Phoenix, now a city-owned performing arts venue. Films appear occasionally as classic screenings and film-with-live-orchestra concerts.
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.
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.
Billy Wilder Theater
Los Angeles, CA
The 295-seat theater inside the Hammer Museum, home to UCLA Film & Television Archive screenings. Retrospectives, restorations, and talks, with public programs currently free on a first-come basis.
Brain Dead Studios
Los Angeles, CA
A cult and repertory cinema in the old Silent Movie Theatre space on Fairfax. The calendar mixes classics, midnight-style favorites, and themed event weeks, with a monthly membership that includes a free ticket per screening.
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.
New Beverly Cinema
Los Angeles, CA
A revival house in a 1920s building that shows double features on 35mm, plus weekend midnight shows and Saturday kids' matinees.
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.
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.
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.
Aero Theatre
Santa Monica, CA
A 1940 Santa Monica neighborhood theater run by the American Cinematheque, known for repertory double features, filmmaker Q&As and its annual October all-night horror marathon.
Union County Performing Arts Center
Rahway, NJ
A restored 1928 movie palace in Rahway that mixes live shows with a classic film series on 35mm, plus sensory-friendly and senior-student matinees.
William Carlos Williams Center for the Performing Arts
Rutherford, NJ
A 1922 Rutherford theater with three cinema screens showing repertory, cult, anime and midnight titles, plus live music, a film society and a silent film with live accompaniment.
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.
Spectacle Theater
Brooklyn, NY
A collectively run Williamsburg microcinema, founded in 2010 and staffed by volunteers, that programs overlooked, offbeat and cult films in themed series every day of the week.
Syndicated Theater
Brooklyn, NY
A 60-seat dine-in cinema at the back of a Bogart Street restaurant and bar in Bushwick, mixing cult and repertory titles with new indie releases. Seats come with a full menu and cocktails.
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.
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.
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.
Clinton Street Theater
Portland, OR
A scrappy neighborhood theater that mixes classic and foreign titles, documentaries, drag and burlesque nights, and a Rocky Horror shadowcast that has run every week since 1978. Tickets are mostly $10.