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Washington, DC: West End Cinema Closing

Posted on Tuesday, March 24, 2015 2:09 PM and updated on Wednesday, July 15, 2015 4:07 PM

The West End Cinema in Washington, DC will close on March 26, 2015, according to an article published recently in the Washington Post:

The West End Cinema will close at the end of March, owner Josh Levin announced on Monday.

Since opening the three-auditorium, 218-seat theater in 2010, Levin has made the West End a haven for small, independent movies that otherwise could only be seen on demand or not at all. Films like Kenneth Lonergan’s “Margaret,” Eugene Jarecki’s documentary “The House I Live In” and “Awake: The Life of Yogananda” exemplify the kind of “orphan” films that found purchase at the West End, which also served as a move-over house for bigger movies, such as “The Social Network,” “Silver Linings Playbook” and “Django Unchained.”

That model made it possible for the West End to stay afloat even with the paper-thin margins of the movie exhibition business. But, Levin said, for several months the theater has been “treading water financially, and we have looming significant increases in our occupancy costs that we simply can’t cover from operations.”

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Head over to the Showtimes page to see what they will be playing on their last days.

While there are plenty of movie theaters nearby, moviegoers that enjoyed the fare at the West End Cinema will need to visit venues such as the Cinema Arts Theatre in Fairfax, Virginia, the Angelika Pop-Up at Union Market, or the Landmark Bethesda Row Cinema.

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