He regularly watches some of the most memorable horror films in the history of cinema. But for Laurent Gariépy, there’s perhaps nothing more terrifying than a bunch of empty seats.
“Unless there are really a lot of people at the door, which I kind of really doubt it, I will lose money,” he said just before the screening of Rome, Open City — an Italian neorealist war drama directed by Roberto Rossellini.”[The film is] groundbreaking … I thought it would have been better than that.”
Source: The classic film screenings at City Cinema will go on — even if only a few people are there to watch