It`s amazing that in this supposedly free country we tolerate the rigid, monolithic film distribution system that is imposed upon us.
If you don`t wish to pay $6 or $7 a seat and yet want some choice in your film viewing, you`re in deep trouble. What you discover week after week is a brief list of four or five films at every second-run theater in the entire metropolitan area. And sometimes not a single new film is added.
This list, by the way, does not eventually include all the first-run films. They don`t all trickle down. I`ve been waiting for months to see
”Texasville;” it has never arrived.
Independent theater owners are not the culprits; this is bigger than the theater chains. Someone`s at the bottom of this and no doubt profiting handsomely. Is there nothing that can be done?
