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“The secret to a successful watch party,” Jim Carl, the Carolina Theatre’s Senior Director of Film Programming, told me via email, “is to take a good long nap for several hours before starting one. Usually with a cat on your lap.” If you’ve seen the Retro Film Series Facebook lately, you know that Carl’s strategy […]

On Wednesday, the Carolina Theatre of Durham was honored to be named “Best Theater to See an Indie Film in the Triangle” in INDY Week’s 2020 Best of the Triangle. Each year, INDY readers vote online for everything from the “Best Trivia Night in Durham County” to the “Best Juice Bar in the Triangle” and, […]

The Carolina Theatre is participating in the national livestream premiere of “Olympia,” a feature documentary on Academy Award-winning actress Olympia Dukakis. The premiere screening and panel conversation will take place on July 9 at 8 p.m. EST on Facebook Live. Directed by Harry Mavromichalis, “Olympia” is an intimate fly-on-the-wall documentary that The Hollywood Reporter called […]