🎬 A new curated “movie pass” offers tickets to art house standouts. Reader contributor KatSachs has more on options to alleviate the burden of sky-high movie ticket costs 👇
I recently got a tattoo of these opening lines from Frank O’Hara’s 1964 poem “Ave Maria”:A metaphorical approximation of a cinephile’s clarion call, to be sure, but one to which I still can’t help imagine today’s parents replying, “In this economy? Hell no.”the average cost of a movie ticket in the United States has increased from $9.11 in 2018 to $9.17 in 2020, 2021, and 2022.
There are options to alleviate this burden, ranging from yearly memberships at independent theaters, which typically come with a per-ticket discount and other localized benefits, to robust monthly programs with major chains like AMC Stubs A-List and Regal Unlimited, offering any number of movies for one low price.
But with plans like the latter come that which plagues the modern moviegoer: the paradox of choice, of having so many options from which to choose that it becomes more difficult to do so. This makes programs like AMC’s and Regal’s a double-edged sword, leaving something to be desired for a cinephile—especially one who might not frequently see what they’re interested in on the multiplex marquee—looking to make the most of their money and time.
As Rebecca Fons, director of programming at the Gene Siskel Film Center, remarked in an email about the fabled days of MoviePass past , she was baffled by a patron at one of the previous venues where she worked who had the service and “walked“I think that ‘too much of a muchness’ meant there was an undervaluing of individual films and a lot of noise,” she says.
Enter MUBI GO, a new offering from the streaming service, film distributor, and editorial publisher MUBI.
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