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Filmmaker Rustin Thompson journeys across the American West in search of a vanishing institution: the small-town movie theatre. Along forgotten highways and through fading communities, he encounters abandoned cinemas, theatres slipping into disrepair, and the devoted few determined to keep their screens alive. Both elegy and celebration, The Last Picture Shows captures a cinematic landscape at a crossroads, where memory and modernity collide. Yet beneath its melancholy lies a profound sense of hope. These theatres remain more than buildings: they are places of wonder, contemplation and shared experience—oases of belonging in an increasingly fragmented world, and enduring reminders of cinema’s power to bring us together.