Music Palace (2005)

Previously a central part of communal life the movie palaces of New Yorks Chinatown are now extinct This documentary short takes us inside the title theater located on the Bowery as its about to close its doors with its caretakers ruefully looking back at the life that once was Eric Lins poignant first film serves as a glimpse into the usually privateand according to the Music Palaces projectionist lonelyoperations of a theater and mourns the loss of a oncevital moviegoing locale