San Francisco is My Home

19
Dec

Kabuki Theater

Author: kris, Category: Movies

Wow, something wonderful is cooking in Pacific Heights and it’s called the Kabuki Theater.

I’ve always loved the Kabuki cineplex. They show awesome indie films, take part in film festivals, and have always been pleasing to the eye in general. But now they’ve remodeled, I think. Anyway, something excellent has happened, because they seem to have kicked the awesome up several notches. Now when you buy your ticket, the person you buy from is an adult (instead of a minimum wage zombie kid) who talks to you like a human, not in that fake bland customer service tone. You get to pick an assigned seat when you buy your ticket, just like in Europe, and your ticket seller will cheerfully tell you how he feels about the film.

Then you go upstairs, where in addition to having fancy-pants foods at the snackbar, they have a real bar and bistro. Plus a lobby kind of area with wonderful suede couches that I want to own.

Then you see the film, which, because it’s at the Kabuki, will be guaranteed to be 1) superb and 2) commercial-free. You still get previews, but in the part before the previews where most theaters show commercials, the Kabuki displays a weird silent video of cartoony cutouts sitting in a movie theater and fidgeting around.

As if all this weren’t enough, Juno is playing there right now, and it is fantastic. So go. Immediately. Get up from your chair right now and just go, man.