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"I’m an African-American man, so I speak plainly. It was a Black theater. You yelled at the screen, and folks would talk." Posted: 21 Jan 2022 09:01 AM PST "A major component of Black existence is forced comportment in white spaces. There is a comfort derived from taking off the disguise, if just for a few minutes in the cinema."  Said Cyrus McQueen, a stand-up comedian, quoted in "The 'Shouting Back' Theater Abruptly Closes, and Brooklyn Mourns/A rowdy movie house suddenly goes dark, inspiring an outpouring of dismay and reminiscences" (NYT). The theater closed last Sunday, taking regulars by surprise.... Dean Fleischer-Camp, a filmmaker, said that his favorite movie experience ever involved people "screaming, laughing, singing" and "throwing popcorn" during a 6 p.m. screening of "Drag Me to Hell." Lincoln Restler, the newly elected councilman whose district includes Downtown Brooklyn, shared a picture of a moving van parked outside. "For the shouting-back-at-action-movie experience," he wrote, "there was no place better!"

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