Dupont's Last Movie House to Close in January

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REMEMBER THE JANUS 3? The old movie house at Connecticut Avenue and R Street NW closed without much fanfare in 2002, replaced by a United Colors of Benneton and Sette Osteria. It was small, cramped and aside from the movies shown there themselves, there was little to love about the place.

Over on Florida Avenue at 20th Street NW, there was Visions Bar Noir, a laudable attempt a fusing a small movie theater and bar. We liked the keg-of-beer late-night-show deal for $10. But the love of its patrons could not lift Visions out of debt. It closed in 2004.

Over the past decade, Northwest D.C. has been losing its smaller movie theaters one by one, just as more-profitable and larger complexes have moved on in. And now, in another hit for Dupont Circle, the AMC Loews Dupont 5 will be shutting its doors in January. It's a move that, as The Post's Alejandro Lazo reports, is "a sign of the continuing change underway in one of the most distinctive neighborhoods in Washington, one brought on by increasing rents for commercial real estate."

» "The Last Show In Dupont Circle" [WaPo]

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