Jayme Catsouphes' Amazing Podcast

Chapter 1 - https://soundcloud.com/jcatsoup/filmfatale-dark-times-for#t=2m35s Chapter 2 - https://soundcloud.com/jcatsoup/filmfatale-dark-times-for#t=5m35s Take a walk down any major street in San Francisco and you’ll see them: dead movie theaters. Corpses. It’s hard not to shudder when you walk past one – the doors locked and covered with plywood, the entrance collecting tin cans and old newspapers. The theater’s once grand marquee, now deprived of the electricity needed to power the lights, seems gaudy and hubristic. These are dark times for movie theaters. On July 25, 2011, The Red Vic Theater became the city’s latest victim. It had just turned 31 years old. When I arrived on the scene – San Francisco’s iconic Haight Street – the theater lay in critical condition. One of the Red Vic’s guardians, Jack Rix, let me in to examine the victim, his theater. It was a bright sunny day, and Rix seemed to be in a relatively cheerful mood, despite the recent tragedy. Once inside, I saw they were doing some emergenc