L.A. Conservancy’s Last Remaining Seats Series Turns 35, as City’s Key Movie Palaces Persist
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticDowntown Los Angeles is a very different place than it was when the Los Angeles Conservancy kicked off its “Last Remaining Seats” film screenings in movie palaces 35 years ago.
When the annual series hits key theaters this month (after taking the last couple of Junes off for the pandemic), there will be far less trepidation in the air about the fate of some of the key theaters and the neighborhoods they’re in than there was back in 1987.
One thing that’s very different, now versus then: the number of filmgoers who’ll be walking to the Orpheum and the Los Angeles, the two theaters that will host five of the six screenings.Meanwhile, perhaps ironically, the LRS series kicks off Saturday with a field trip to a neighborhood that was seen as deeply thriving 35 years ago, but could use its own boost now: Westwood, where the venerable Village Theater will play host to the Conservancy for the first time.
Saturday night’s showing of “To Sir With Love” will take place at 8 p.m. at the Village on the west side. The following Saturday, June 11, a double feature of Charlie Chaplin’s silents “The Kid” and “The Immigrants” will take place as an organ-accompanied matinee at the Orpheum on Broadway, with “Blade Runner” showing there later in the evening.
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