Theater Reopenings and Vaccinated Viewings in Pandemic Year Two

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Editorial| June 01 2021 Theater Reopenings and Vaccinated Viewings in Pandemic Year Two B. Ruby Rich B. Ruby Rich Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Film Quarterly (2021) 74 (4): 5–8. https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2021.74.4.5 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation B. Ruby Rich; Theater Reopenings and Vaccinated Viewings in Pandemic Year Two. Film Quarterly 1 June 2021; 74 (4): 5–8. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2021.74.4.5 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentFilm Quarterly Search It has been more than a year since this editorial space filled with speculations about streaming films and the closing of theaters. It was with distinct excitement, then, that I began to read the reopening announcements. The beloved Paris Theater in New York City, with its lease now held by Netflix and with programming selected by former Museum of the Moving Image curator David Schwartz, trumpeted an Al Pacino retrospective. The Film Forum, that mainstay of downtown New York tastemaking, announced its theater’s reopening while retaining its virtual marquee, too. The Museum of Modern Art continued its online offerings as it awaited fixing its reopening date while Film at Lincoln Center proclaimed its opening and Landmark Theatres issued a national reopening-day announcement. Another press release trumpeted the combined theatrical and online debut on July 1 of Ahmir Khalib “Questlove” Thompson’s Sundance hit, Summer of Soul (… Or, When the Revolution... You do not currently have access to this content.