Los Feliz 3 Bill Cunningham New York Friday, 5/6/11, 7:00 pm

Price: $9.50 Concessions: None Audience: About 30, out of 60 seats total. Trailers/advertising: trailers for Hanna (already showing on another screen in this theater) and Green Lantern, which got universal laughter, which was probably not its intent. Projection 35mm, with the right side in crisp focus and the rest getting muddier the further left you looked.

I stayed on the east side after work, grabbing some fish tacos before heading to the theater, where I’d never been before. In all the times I’d walked by, I don’t know that I’d ever done it from the other side of the street, and had never noticed the “Since 1934” sign. Very nice. The theater was nicer than I’d expected; for some reason, I was prepared for it to be a bit of a dump, but it wasn’t at all. The little room where my film screened had obviously been carved out of a larger auditorium. It reminded me of the small room at the Pleasant Street Theatre in Northampton, long and narrow, with ten rows of six seats each and a screen that was probably about 12 feet across.

Despite the projection woes, and the fact that the movie was shot on digital video and then transferred to film, which never yields very good results, I found the film engaging and entertaining, a warm-hearted portrait of a truly wonderful man. What a life.