The Death of any theatre diminishes us all - [[Unknown)
This thread reminds me of the long-gone Studio 8 theater in downtown Bham. For a short time in the 1970's a goodly number of "serious" American and European films were booked there. As for the rest of the "chain" - the Studio North [[now the Magic Bag); the Studio New Center [[at Third and W. Grand, now demolished); and the Studio [[I don't recall the location....Anyone?) along with the Surf, the Coronet, and the Trans-Lux Krim showed "foreign cinema" as far back as...well....before me, and that was a long time ago. Parking was always lousy for the Studio 8, and I'm sure that the neighborhood didn't much care for the congestion. But Studio 8 was the only place you could see a young actor named Jack Nicholson, in "Five Easy Pieces."