Music Palace
2005
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Previously a central part of communal life the movie palaces of New York’s Chinatown are now extinct. This documentary short takes us inside the title theater located on the Bowery as it’s about to close its doors with its caretakers ruefully looking back at the life that once was. Eric Lin’s poignant first film serves as a glimpse into the usually private—and according to the Music Palace’s projectionist “lonely”—operations of a theater and mourns the loss of a once-vital movie-going locale.