picture palace

About five years ago, a mystery woman dropped off a bin bag filled with almost 30 old ledgers detailing about 40 years of early activity at the picture palace.

There’s some of that same complexity in his series “Theaters,” mostly shot from the rear of old picture palaces.

Two years earlier, that Ninth Street NW picture palace had been renovated, its foyer floored in Pompeian marble, its side walls swathed in damask silk.

The picture palace in the center of Thailand’s capital, the city’s last standalone big-screen cinema, on Sunday screened its final offering.

“Motion picture palaces were hurt by television, theatre was hurt by talking pictures, Vaudeville was murdered by talking pictures. And now cinema is being hurt by streaming and Netflix,” he said.