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At some point after that, the Dobie was turned into a rabbit warren of four theaters. I can’t remember if they used the original space, or moved into a new space in the mall. But I know for sure that I saw the documentary “Paradise Lost” in the third theater of the remodeled version. It came out in 1996, and I’m not sure when I saw it, but it was more or less contemporaneous with its release. This one is memorable because during the tense closing arguments, the image went way out of frame and I ran out of the theater and was taking one of the corners in the hallway at full speed and ran HARD into an employee coming the other direction, bouncing off his employee bowling shirt, and said, “Frame Paradise Lost!” And he said, “I am!”
So Dobie opened as a two-screen theater, and around the end of 1995 or the beginning of 1996, turned into the four-screen version described here, with the themed theaters.
The Dobie was originally two screens: the main theater was long and skinny, and the other theater was short and wide.
“Slacker” played in the long, skinny one, in 1990. And I know the Dobie was still in the two-screen configuration in 1994, when “Clerks” showed there, and in about 1995, when a shorts program that included “The Spirit of Christmas,” the short by the South Park guys where Jesus and Santa fight it out.
continued… At some point after that, the Dobie was turned into a rabbit warren of four theaters. I can’t remember if they used the original space, or moved into a new space in the mall. But I know for sure that I saw the documentary “Paradise Lost” in the third theater of the remodeled version. It came out in 1996, and I’m not sure when I saw it, but it was more or less contemporaneous with its release. This one is memorable because during the tense closing arguments, the image went way out of frame and I ran out of the theater and was taking one of the corners in the hallway at full speed and ran HARD into an employee coming the other direction, bouncing off his employee bowling shirt, and said, “Frame Paradise Lost!” And he said, “I am!”
So Dobie opened as a two-screen theater, and around the end of 1995 or the beginning of 1996, turned into the four-screen version described here, with the themed theaters.
The Dobie was originally two screens: the main theater was long and skinny, and the other theater was short and wide.
“Slacker” played in the long, skinny one, in 1990. And I know the Dobie was still in the two-screen configuration in 1994, when “Clerks” showed there, and in about 1995, when a shorts program that included “The Spirit of Christmas,” the short by the South Park guys where Jesus and Santa fight it out.