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[Guillermo del Toro] A great movie…

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will take you places
you could not imagine.

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And if it happens at a temple,

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a building dedicated to it,

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the experience is transcendental.

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Opera has palaces,

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the ballet has palaces,

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painting has museums.

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Cinema deserves that magical realm,

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which was the great movie palaces.

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Like any other holy building,

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you go to a theater

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to recapture a spiritual moment.

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-[roars]
-[shouting]

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[soaring music plays]

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[laughs]

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-[screams]
-[shouts]

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[laughs]

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[music softens]

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[del Toro] We're storytelling animals.

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Every notion we have,

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notion of love,

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country, belonging,

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they come from a story.

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[yelps]

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And the only art that can encompass
any human experience is cinema.

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When we can experience a movie

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in the environment
that you can surrender yourself,

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it engulfs you,

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heals, elevates,

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connects with your soul.

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So, for me, the Egyptian is a temple.

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[music fades out]

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Many times I've been at the bottom.

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I'm about to quit the job…

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[chuckles] …of life,
and I go, "This is meaningless."

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And cinema has lifted me up.

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With the right drama,
the right horror movie,

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the right cartoon.

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Can be a Capra.

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Merry Christmas!

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[del Toro] Can be a Keaton.

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And it just shakes you.

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Come on!

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[Autumn Arkapaw] Raging Bull.

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Thin Red Line…

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[shouts in Japanese]

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…Road to Perdition.

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Those are the movies
that stick with me the most.

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It feels so real to me,

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like I feel like I'm now
in this magical world.

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That's actually happening.

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The experience of
going into the dark with strangers

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and having this group hallucination,

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and coming out the other end of it
a different person.

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It is a group experience,

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and it gives you permission to feel it.

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[Arkapaw] The theater itself,
the space at which your film is shown,

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all feeds into how people
are relating to your film.

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Oh wow!

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With the Egyptian, you go in there,
and it's like, "Game on."

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[Johnson] The whole experience
is the show,

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including walking up
to the facade of the theater,

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taking you back to the imagined glamour
of Hollywood past.

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[del Toro] It's a grand outing
to a different reality.

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You are transported to a place that has,

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if not great architecture
by the historical accuracy,

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certainly grand architecture.

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[Arkapaw] The bravado
of the theater is felt.

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You're engulfed in that whole environment.

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As a person who completely believes
in spirits and ghosts

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and energy contained within spaces,

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it's like those buildings have memory.

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[cheering]

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[Pete Hammond] My father
was actually there

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on the opening night
of the Egyptian Theatre.

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It was Robin Hood.

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And he said, "I saw Douglas Fairbanks."

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It was a big night.
It was a very special thing.

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[Leonard Maltin] I fell in love with it.

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It became my favorite place
in Hollywood to see a movie.

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[Rene Lagler] I would tear
1,316 tickets every night.

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It was fun.

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It was exciting to be a part of all that,
especially the premieres.

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The red carpet, the flowers.

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Most of the stars,

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Marlon Brando, and all those people,
they would come to the theater.

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We were proud to be a part
of something that was special.

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[cheering]

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[announcer] Ben-Hur,
opening at the Egyptian Theatre.

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It's already proclaimed

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as the entertainment experience
of a lifetime.

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[man] There were lots of great premieres
that happened there in the '60s…

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How do you do?

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…and the '70s, like Alien…

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[shrieking]

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…the early '80s.

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[cackles]

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[deep rumbling]

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[Peyton Hall] I drove by the Egyptian.

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The building had big holes.

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I think that we need to keep
the Egyptian forever.

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This is such a fundamentally
important place

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in the invention of how
we experience movies.

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The American Cinematheque courageously
went forward on the rehab project

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to save the history and character
of the Egyptian Theatre

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and to make it work again.

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[del Toro] The first time
I experienced King Kong was on a TV.

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Many of my generation,
and generations subsequent to mine,

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have experienced most of
their audiovisual storytelling on TV.

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[tense music plays]

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When I experienced Vertigo
on the big screen,

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I realized I had never seen it.

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Even though I had seen it
many times before,

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the size of the screen,
that's one of the most important things.

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In any temple, surrender is key.

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At a moment's notice, your world changes.

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[Arkapaw] I love Apocalypse Now.

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I can always go back to a theater
and watch that.

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I was just being so affected in a theater
by these kind of epic films.

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We have a sinner with us here.

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[Arkapaw] Seeing There Will Be Blood
and going, "I wanna do that."

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That film was amazing.

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That's why I became a DP.

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I'm always thinking about,

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"Will people love to see this
in a theater?"

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[Ben Tucker] I remember
my first black-and-white movie,

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which was Miracle on 34th Street,

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and learning that I liked old movies too.

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I get it now, more than ever,

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how great it is to watch a movie
with a really good audience

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in a packed house.

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What's special about the Egyptian
is its ability to run nitrate-based film,

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which is very unusual.

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There's only a handful of theaters
in the United States

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and in the world
that can run nitrate film.

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Movies are as delicate as vampires.
They need darkness to exist,

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and they are dependent on a very,
very strange body chemistry.

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[Arkanaw] I always like the OG,
kind of unique film print projection

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because I like texture,
and I like imperfection.

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There's something about it
that feels more special.

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[del Toro] The experience is different.

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There is something beautiful
about the flickering.

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We're trusted by the studios,
and the archives, with their best prints.

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You're looking at prints
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to the original negative.

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[Johnson] We should be championing places
that are showing great older films,

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because it's a incredibly vital experience
that changes people's lives.

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[del Toro] I remember seeing
Los Olvidados, Buñuel's movie.

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And I came out completely transmogrified.

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I thought, "That was done
by a filmmaker in Mexico."

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"I can talk about my reality in my mind
or my place of birth through cinema."

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[Johnson] I remember going to a theater
and seeing Harold Lloyd's The Freshman.

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To see this film from 80 years in the past

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bring the house down…

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That's probably the best experience
I've ever had in a theater

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watching a comedy.

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[del Toro] Peter Bogdanovich used to say
there are no old movies and new movies.

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Just movies you've seen
and movies you haven't seen.

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And for me, to be moved by Mervyn LeRoy…

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The bigger they come,
the harder they fall.

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-[del Toro] …by Douglas Sirk…
-Put down that phone.

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Would you like to speak to him yourself?
I'll tell him you're here.

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…they had to wait for me.

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Any way we can preserve those experiences,

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the way they wanted it to be screened,
it's a sacred duty.

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[Hammond] The Egyptian needs
serious remodeling,

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and it's getting it,

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and that's thanks to some of the money
from Netflix and American Cinematheque.

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At the Egyptian, we are working on
a very good recreation and preservation

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of what was there in 1922,

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so that the Egyptian is there for people
to come and have this experience.

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One, please.

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[del Toro] Certainly, in cinema,
there are screening rooms that are cold,

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and there are screening rooms
that are warm.

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Those are the best places to see a movie.

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If it's a great movie, it's great.

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If it's a bad movie, it's not that bad.

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The Egyptian, even though it's enormous,

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it's a really warm room.

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[Taylor] There is a magic to the Egyptian.

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Feeling all of these incredible
filmmakers that came before you.

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That history gets passed down,
inspires a new generation.

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You can still go to the Egyptian

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and still see some of the movies
that played there decades before.

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[wondrous music plays]

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[del Toro] There's a covenant
with cinema at the Egyptian

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that you get renewed every time
you're there as an audience member.

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And as a filmmaker,
you feel that covenant with the audience.

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[wondrous music continues]

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You have a direct line with the origins
of cinema at its most grand.

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[wondrous music continues]

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The Egyptian is there
to have a spiritual moment with film.

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[wondrous music crescendoes]

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[energetic music plays]