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S.L. Does Offer Alternatives: Art, Foreign and Offbeat Films

By Christopher Hicks, Movie Critic
Deseret News, 2 October 1988, page E7

Article Summary:

The Blue Mouse
The Blue Mouse, affectionately called “The Mouse”, has long been the art house among Salt Lake theaters, showing subtitled foreign-language films, odd little independent pictures, cult films, and concert movies. “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” has played every weekend for the past decade

Cinema in Your Face!
Cinema in Your Face! “has been building its own audience, bidding in competition with The Mouse during the past year”

Cineplex Odeon Trolley Square Cinemas
Cineplex Odeon used its backing as a major theater chain to get first shot at foreign films and art flicks.

Cineplex Odeon Regency Theatre
The British drama, “A Handful of Dust,” played at the Regency

Cineplex Odeon Carriage Square Trolley Theaters
Cineplex Odeon competed with the Avalon by devoting one screen at Carraige Square to older movies, such as “The Sting” and “Gigi.”

Avalon Theater
The Avalon Theater has specialized in flavorful classics from the '30s and '40s for the past 25 years, earning a steady clientele.