Rewind and Press Play 📼

July 25, 2025 Rewind and Press Play 📼 New independent cinemas opening in NYC; Alexandra Juhasz interviewed; and more View in browser   |   filmcomment.com July 25, 2025 WEBSITE   |   PODCAST   |   LATEST Dear Readers, The last several months have brought some heartening news to New York City cinephiles: multiple new independent and repertory theaters are popping up across the boroughs. The Low Cinema, co-founded by filmmaker John Wilson, opened in May in Ridgewood. The historic, long-defunct Metro Theater on Manhattan's Upper West Side was recently purchased by a nonprofit led by film producer Ira Deutchman and programmer Adeline Monzier, with plans in the works to renovate and reopen it. And the team behind the Rockaway Film Festival seeks to establish a year-round cinematheque in the beachside Queens neighborhood that the fest has called home for the last seven years.  In today's lead essay, part of our Long Read series, Mark Asch dives dee... read