What five movies are playing this week on five screens in tiny Kinmont, Ontario?
Barbie, Oppenheimer, Elemental, the new Indiana Jones and Mission Impossibles.
While independent screens die, the top pics of the day play in a home-made movie multiplex in a rural town up in woodsy Ontario cottage-land.
Where is Kinmont?
"More than four decades ago, Keith Stata, now 75, had a sort of quixotic dream of building a theater in a little town called Kinmount, which has about 200 residents and is deep in the Ontario backwoods.
It’s a place that looks like it would have worked well as a location for The Last Picture Show, and has nothing to really showcase — not even a single gas station — except the ever-present Highlands Cinemas, which Stata, whose former career was in construction, expanded out from a single screen in 1979, to two, then three , then four, now five. "
--Pete Hammond, Deadline
Much-loved by blogs, buffs and tripadvisor, the 550-seat movie complex is celebrated in rapturous and loving detail by Deadline, tipping a new film on Stata.
The Movie Man, a documentary by film-maker Matt Finlin, celebrates the Highlands, Stata's odd, inspiring theater-museum life dream.
Hammond writes that the doc is a natural for festival screenings like Telluride and Toronto's.
LINK: Cinema Paradiso in Kinmont (Deadline)
LINK: 40 years of summer flicks (Minden Times)
Ten bucks buys a movie in one of five theaters, a nostalgic movie museum and perhaps a glimpse of Stata's 42 rescue cats. Kinmont is two-and-a-half-hours northeast of Toronto.
1 comment:
Oooh, you should go! You could Barbenheimer, even . . .
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