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Wikipedia article
'When the Marquee's Lights Go Out' is a 2018 Brazilian documentary film by Renato Brando. The film tells the story of the traditional movie theaters in an area called 'Cinelndia Paulistana', in the Downtown So Paulo.
The film premiered at the 2018 It's All True International Documentary Film Festival.
Plot
Based on testimonials from former regular cinema goers (including the writer Igncio de Loyola Brando) and extensive archival footage, the documentary presents the story of the movie theaters located between the So Joo and Ipiranga avenues, in downtown So Paulo.
Known as 'Cinelndia Paulistana', this area held the largest concentration of cinemas in the city, including the Art-Palcio, the Metro, the Ipiranga, the Marab, the Comodoro Cinerama, and reached its peak heyday in the 1950s and 1960s.
The urban decay of the city center in the 1970s and the emergence of the multiple-screen theaters often located in shopping malls and the home viewing on VHS in the 1980s reduced much of the allure of 'Cinelandia Paulistana', which saw the closing of its several famous cinemas, while its fewer remaining theaters specializes in showing adult pornographic movies.
Release
The film was included in the Official Selection at the 23rd It's All True International Documentary Film Festival and had its premiere on April 17, 2018.
In 2020, it was screened again at the It's All True Film Festival for a special event. Also that year, it was screened online at the Arquivo Em Cartaz - International archive film festival.
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