A few institutions serve as revival theaters with a twist.

But he never considered himself part of the artsy crowd, which he defines as intellectuals who hang out at revival theaters.

With new public television outlets and revival theaters springing up around the country, these films seemed unlikely to lose their value over the years.

He changed his name in his teens, when he dropped out of school and began haunting the revival theaters of Paris.

"All the time we get requests for 'Apocalypse Now' to be shown on college campuses and revival theaters," he said.

"I always figured it took a city of eight million to support a 200-seat revival theater," said Howard Otway, the theater's owner.

Cooper operated other revival theaters in the Los Angeles area, including the Tiffany's sister theater, the Vagabond, near downtown.

By the time Cooper's lease ran out in 1983, home video was rapidly making revival theaters irrelevant.

The movie's idiosyncratic cast of characters includes a projectionist, an ice-cream lady, a cinema manager and a revival theater that is unceremoniously closed.

What I think of most are the revival theaters in which I spent the better part of my life.