On a Tuesday night in a former bank hall, sixty people sit on mismatched chairs to watch a film that opened forty years ago. The projector hums; someone has baked a cake.
Community cinemas like this one have more than doubled in number over the past decade, run largely by volunteers and funded by memberships rather than ticket sales alone.
Programmers say audiences come for the company as much as the film. Several have started to win distribution deals for new releases.
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