In a recent article in The Washington Post, director Christopher Nolan – one of cinema’s most passionate defenders of film and the theatrical experience – declared that movie theaters are one of America’s, indeed the world’s, most important social confluences. Nolan, in his op-ed, describes a smaller theater in Missouri that, along with thousands of others, recently shuttered over coronavirus safety concerns. Nolan rightly pointed out that theaters are more than a mere delivery system for glitz and thrills (although they are that), but a living, vital business full of hard-working employees who make popcorn, sweep floors, and stand next to hot projector bulbs all in the service of the entertainment-and-art-hungry public.
Source: https://www.ign.com/articles/how-to-support-movie-theaters