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The Projectionist, a New Documentary
Kendall Messick directs a new film about Gordon Brinckle, who created a movie palace in his basement.
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When filmmaker Kendall Messick was growing up in suburban Delaware, he learned that a neighbor kept a movie theater in his basement, complete with marquee, ticket booth, projector, and organ. Its name: the Shalimar. Its creator: Gordon Brinckle. “The beauty and graciousness of the past … [just] isn’t anymore,” Brinckle says in Messick’s 31-minute documentary, The Projectionist, part of a larger project about Brinckle, who died in 2007, and aimed at preserving the Shalimar. $29.95;
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