I've reached the point of utter discontent with the Baxter Avenue Filmworks movie theater. On it's website, it states that they offer first-run, foreign, and independent films. However, I depend on them to be playing indie movies as they are the closest thing to an art house theater that can be found in Louisville, Kentucky.
Unfortunately for the city of Louisville, an art house they are not. This is where I appreciate a theater chain like Landmark Theatres. They actually give a damn about the movie-going public. I prefer to see indie films in theaters, not at home on DVD. But I don't have a choice. I live in the East End and it's not as easy to get to Baxter as it is to get to Cinemark Tinseltown, just two lights away from my house.
If you look at Landmark's offerings in a market like Indianapolis (NFL, NBA), they still have movies like Nebraska playing. But in Louisville, Nebraska opened on December 13th at the Baxter and on December 25th, it was no longer playing in town. I had planned to see it on December 26th, only to be disappointed that the movie, directed by Alexander Payne and starring Bruce Dern, was no longer playing.
It's sad that a film, likely to be nominated for Best Picture, Actor, Supporting Actress, and maybe Supporting Actor, is only playing in Louisville for 11 days. It makes zero sense.
Of the five nominees in the Independent Spirit Awards, you could only catch four of the five in Louisville because Short Term 12 never opened here. Amongst other notables, the city of Louisville is not a large enough market to have a film like Inside Llewyn Davis yet.
The city of Louisville deserves a real art house theater because Baxter just isn't up to being the art house theater that the city of Louisville needs and that, my friends, is a damn shame.
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