Art films? Alternative films? Foreign films? Independent films? Randy Berler has brought the best of them to the South Bay for 10 years by Bondo Wyszpolski…
South Bay Film Society’s Randy Berler. Photo by Bondo Wyszpolski
Cinematic ebb and flow
The South Bay Film Society has returned to the AMC Rolling Hills 20, but will their rental agreement be feasible to keep it there?
by Bondo Wyszpolski
Nine years ago, Randy Berler inaugurated the South Bay Film Society with a screening of “Three Colors: Red,” and he sold out his entire allotment of 200 tickets. As the near-weekly series continued, Berler was eventually selling twice that amount and more. But on March 11 of last year, he announced that for the unforeseeable future he’d shown his last film. Subsequently, the AMC Rolling Hills 20 went dark, along with movie theaters across the country and even around the world.