{"id":6473,"date":"2017-10-11T01:00:37","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T09:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=6473"},"modified":"2017-10-10T19:05:33","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T03:05:33","slug":"salem-cinema-introduces-alternative-film-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/salem-cinema-introduces-alternative-film-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Salem Cinema introduces alternative film experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alexandra Martin | Entertainment Editor<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Going to the movies, a popular pastime since the Nickelodeon debuted in the early 20th century, is not only about the movies themselves but the whole experience. For most, attending a movie as a child was the first glimpse we received into the adult world. However, with the rise of Netflix, Hulu, on-demand and the increasing popularity of Redbox, along with the untimely demise of Blockbuster, watching a movie seems to have lost some of the magic that it once had.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instead of going on a first date to the local theater and drowning the butterflies in your stomach with too-buttery popcorn and Coca-Cola products, people would rather save the $20 and \u201cNetflix and chill.\u201d But one theater is sticking it to the man and retaining the roots that remind us of our first experience watching a movie on the big screen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Those familiar, dimly-lit, slanted walkways, dancing soda and candy previews and the intimate seating arrangements still remain intact at Salem Cinema, a three-screen theater located on Broadway Street.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s more than just a place to make a person nostalgic for youth and to see an overpriced cinema remake of a movie that came out thirty years ago. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As part of the Manhattan Short Film Festival, Salem Cinema screens movies from Sydney, Moscow, Kathmandu and Vienna providing a most unique experience for any Friday night out. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Furthermore, the Salem Cinema is beyond being merely a business out to make a profit. The cinema also participates in a program called \u201cReel Change,\u201d which allows non-profit organizations to borrow the reels that the theater screens to raise money for causes in the Salem area. Some such causes are: The Straub Environmental Learning Center, Salem Audubon Society and Marion-Polk food share.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Salem Cinema, also known as High Street Cinema, opened in 1982 and is the only locally owned and operated theater in the greater Salem area. It strays from the straight and narrow, bringing cinema\u2019s alternative side to life: showing independent, art and foreign films such as Wind River, Viceroy\u2019s House and Deconstructing The Beatles: SGT. Pepper, to name a few of the far-fetched titles now playing. It is an ideal place to get a taste of the past while enjoying the leisure of attending a silver screen feature film.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Contact the author at journalentertainment@wou.edu<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexandra Martin | Entertainment Editor Going to the movies, a popular pastime since the Nickelodeon debuted in the early 20th century, is not only about the movies themselves but the whole experience. For most, attending a movie as a child was the first glimpse we received into the adult world. 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