Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Art house theater coming to Fort Worth
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Amy McNutt (creator of my favorite eatery in the universe, Spiral Diner) and James Johnston (her husband and a talented indie filmmaker with a rich filmography over the last eight years) are planning on bringing a real art house movie theater to Fort Worth’s Near Southside. As announced on James’ blog, the theater will be called the Citizen:
The reason for the visit to Moxie was research. If you don’t know Amy and I personally then you probably haven’t heard that Amy is in the beginning stages of her next business venture. That venture being a real Art House Cinema in Fort Worth (of course I’ll be helping her out but just like Spiral it will be her baby). We’ve already been perusing suitable buildings and are very dedicated to keeping the theater in the Near Southside (where Spiral FW is.) Our hopes are to have the theater up and running by 2009. As I mentioned, we’re still in the very beginning stages but here are the plans thus far: It will be called “The Citizen Theater”, it will be a modest sized theater in art deco style. There will be two screens with a heavy emphasis on exceptional picture and sound quality playing both first run art house films and repertory films as well as undistributed indie films (but only the best of the best.) We’ll have a mini-cafe in the lobby serving organic popcorn, wine and beer, coffee and espresso, sodas, juices and smoothies as well as some of the other Spiral goodies you know and love (no full meals here, just snacks and desserts, maybe a veggie wrap or two.)
This will be an amazing addition to the Near Southside and the city as a whole, and I think I speak for all of us here at West & Clear when I say that I cannot wait for the Citizen’s arrival. I’ll be sure and cover the progress on the plans for the Citizen as things move forward.
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