Only in Theaters (2022), a film by actor/director Raphael Sbarge, is an intimate and moving journey taken with the Laemmle family, spanning nearly three years of challenges, losses, and personal triumphs. Laemmle Theatres, the beloved 84-year-old arthouse cinema chain in Los Angeles, is facing seismic change and financial pressure. Yet the family behind this multigenerational business—whose sole mission has been to support the art of film—is determined to survive. With appearances from Cameron Crowe, Ava DuVernay, James Ivory, Nicole Holofcener, and Allison Anders, Only in Theaters is a state-of-industry film, a love letter to cinema for a general audience, and an irresistible story of a multi-generational American family.
Documentary participant Greg Laemmle and filmmaker Raphael Sbarge will join moderator Ross Melnick (Interim Dick Wolf Director of the Carsey-Wolf Center) for a post-screening discussion of Only in Theaters and the future of arthouse cinema.