What is the state of independent movie theaters in the Detroit region? It’s a question that reminds film lovers that they are still in mourning over the loss of two longtime locations and the switch of another to a pop-up format.
The dearly departed are the venerable Main Art Theater in Royal Oak, which was demolished in 2022 despite a valiant grassroots effort to save it, and the Maple Theater in Bloomfield Township, which shut its doors for good in 2024, the same day that its closing was announced online.
The site that is still a pop-up but without a brick-and-mortar home is Cinema Detroit in Detroit’s Midtown area. It left its rented space in 2023…