As a kid riding with the family down 101, I remember the marquee advertising the grindhouse classic, “Poor White Trash.” My young mind couldn’t imagine what awful stuff must’ve been in that movie.
Was there not another cinema on the even side of Caledonia in the 1980s that looked like it was converted from a giant Quonset hut? I swear I saw “Heathers” and “Do the Right Thing” there.
Despite its strip-mall location, this was THE preeminent arthouse cinema for the university crowd. It got the first-run foreign films before the Plaza Theatre in Petaluma.
I saw my first Fellini (“City of Women”), Fassbinder (“Veronika Voss”), and Verhoeven (“Spetters”) there. I also remember seeing “The Valley Obscured By Clouds,” and “Coup de Torchon.” A few doors down, there was a video store with a decent foreign selection.
As a kid riding with the family down 101, I remember the marquee advertising the grindhouse classic, “Poor White Trash.” My young mind couldn’t imagine what awful stuff must’ve been in that movie.
Was there not another cinema on the even side of Caledonia in the 1980s that looked like it was converted from a giant Quonset hut? I swear I saw “Heathers” and “Do the Right Thing” there.
Despite its strip-mall location, this was THE preeminent arthouse cinema for the university crowd. It got the first-run foreign films before the Plaza Theatre in Petaluma.
I saw my first Fellini (“City of Women”), Fassbinder (“Veronika Voss”), and Verhoeven (“Spetters”) there. I also remember seeing “The Valley Obscured By Clouds,” and “Coup de Torchon.” A few doors down, there was a video store with a decent foreign selection.