The venerable D.C. movie theater, Washington’s oldest surviving cinema, turns 100 this year.
That undertaking has involved sifting through archived movie listings, logging the films in a sprawling spreadsheet — 4,000-plus and counting — and organizing them by decade. To choose the centennial selections, the theater’s programming committee then whittles down each decade to around 10 films, ruling out some movies because of incompatible screening formats or others because they don’t hold up under modern scrutiny.
“It’s been something that’s been on people’s minds for a long time,” says Andrew Mencher, the Avalon’s programming director. “Once the pandemic hit and really devastated, to some extent, our business and many other live business models … I think it became a broader hope that the centennial year would just be something that we could use to remind folks that going to the theater is a special experience.
in which longtime patrons speak about their love for the theater. And the Avalon’s annual fundraising gala was reimagined this year as a centennial celebration: The theater will host aMay 6 featuring the 1924 Buster Keaton film “Sherlock Jr.,” with a new, live musical accompaniment composed by Catholic University professor Andrew Earle Simpson.
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