A New Introduction to the Movies

5 min readJul 19, 2021

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Now closed Showcase Cinema (instagram: cantcontroltheirfear)

The trauma that was 2020 showed itself yesterday evening.

You know when you don’t do something for a while you feel like you have to relearn it all over again? One of those things I never expected to have to relearn was how to go to the movies.

That sentence feels like a ridiculous one to me.

Amanda Bussman

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