Future Home Of The Metropolitan Movie House?

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The Metropolitan Movie House will be a family oriented neighborhood theatre that shows films that slip through the gaping holes in American Pop Culture. Many films that are rich in information, art, and culture languish in the vaults, while pure trash rakes in hundreds of millions of dollars. Hollywood alone produces more than 400 movies per year, most of them bad-to-terrible, and most not suitable for children, or actual adults. The Metropolitan will show films that are timeless, family friendly, and that will still be viewed 20, 50, or 100 years from now. This facility would also serve as a showcase for Bay Area filmmakers.
Film can be an educational medium, and there are many independently produced films like "Dirt: The Movie" that the whole family can (and should) see together. The Metropolitan will revive classics like "Black Orpheus," as well as more recent films like Cameron's documentary "Aliens Of The Deep." Traditional distribution models do not allow for films like this to be shown in the chain theaters, or even in most independent movie houses. "Aliens Of The Deep" was released in iMax at the Metreon, but few people saw it. Many good or even great films are never seen because they are not marketed properly.
Cinema is too important to be left in the hands of corporations. Their obligation is to produce movies that make money. An exhibitors job is to find the best and most appropriate films for the audience in the community. The Metropolitan will combine modern digital projection technology with old-fashioned movie house comforts like real popcorn with real butter. It will offer MidTown families with an educational resource (film history) that also provides entertainment, re-introduces a little Art and Culture into the present dismal landscape, provides dozens of temporary and permanent jobs, and provides a stimulus to the local economy.