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Tallahassee's All Saints Cinema is back in business

Moviegoer Joy Rowan buys a ticket from Doug Martin at the entrance to All Saints Cinema.
Tom Flanigan
Moviegoer Joy Rowan buys a ticket from Doug Martin at the entrance to All Saints Cinema.

After a drought of more than three years, Tallahassee fans of art films and foreign movies are rejoicing at the re-opening of the All Saints Cinema just off Railroad Avenue. This past weekend was just the second one in the theatre's rebirth.

One of the first excited moviegoers in the ticket line was retired teacher Joy Rowan, a long-standing member of the Tallahassee Film Society, which runs the Cinema.

"We just have such fun down here, all of us! The movies are wonderful to come see."

Doug Martin, the Cinema's house manager, says the little theatre is slowly getting back up to speed after a long break caused by COVID and then the remodeling of the building.

"Next week we've got a Korean film, 'Walk Up.' And then in a couple weeks, we have a Belgian mystery, 'The 12th of June' is the title. We're actually showing it on the 10th of June."

But whenever they're shown, Martin says all the films will continue the All Saints Cinema tradition of featuring the very best movies the world has to offer.

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Tom Flanigan has been with WFSU News since 2006, focusing on covering local personalities, issues, and organizations. He began his broadcast career more than 30 years before that and covered news for several radio stations in Florida, Texas, and his home state of Maryland.

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