Montage

This weekend I went to see The Great Dictator. This was a moment that I had been waiting for for a long time, the chance to see an old comedy on the big screen, it doesn't happen too often where I live sadly. There was a good crowd at this movie, around 250 I would say. Not too bad on a Saturday afternoon, when the weather was perfect, certainly you could have found a million other things to do rather than lock yourself away in a movie theatre. And we had a large car race on the weekend also, which about 250,000 people attended over the 4 days that it ran. So this makes me ask why, why don't theatre chains of today ever show old movies? Why don't they show Ängels with Dirty Faces, The Third Man, Philadelphia Story etc. I really think that once a month perhaps on a traditionally slow night, say Thursday's perhaps theatre houses should grab an old movie and give it a try. In the multiplex cinema's of today you would just need to use one theatre and one showing and try...