Gold Town Theater is located in downtown Juneau, Alaska, in the Emporium Building,  which originally held the Alaska Steam Laundry, built in 1902.  It was converted to a movie  theater in 1996 and has since then been dedicated to showing the best and newest-we-can-get independent, foreign, and documentary films, particularly anything with Bill Murray.

The usual suspects, THE ARTIST and OSCAR NOMINATED SHORTS.  And for sure anything with a local hook…ON THE ICE (we had the director and producer in town) was huge for us.  [As was the lesser known SMOKIN' FISH, a bio-doc of a local native entrepreneur, and UNBREAKABLE: THE WESTERN STATES 100, a doc about a local ultra-marathon champion.]

Absolutely!  In fact, it’s what we’re depending on to get us through the digital conversion firestorm.  We currently run a monthly live-music concert series in conjunction with our public radio station, a monthly live movie trivia night, an outdoor-films related series (for summer ski bums), various special-interest group events (everything from the Catholic Diocese’s sold-out showing of PINK SMOKE OVER THE VATICAN to the Jewish Community’s “An Evening With Sholem Aleichem”), and we’re starting a Not-So-Silent Film series (silent classics w/ live musical accompaniment) in October.

35MM and standard digital (Blu-ray).  About half and half.

Identity crisis while trying to adapt to a digital world.  For those like us who can’t afford to convert anytime soon (if ever), how do we stay committed to being an art-house cinema if we’re hamstrung on available product?  How few movies can we show and still call ourselves a cinema?

 Hosting the highly-anticipated Premiere Cage Match between David Bordwell and Russ Collins.  Bring eye protection.

Thanks so much to the Gold Town Nickelodeon for participating! See you in January 2013!