Welcome to the Hollywood of the East! Ithaca has a long and storied cinematic history, including decades of film and television production in the first half of the 20th century. We've even got our own urban legends about houses near downtown Ithaca and nearby railroad trestles.
Meantime, Ithaca has a terrific variety of places to see movies, from independent releases and art house films to classics to commercial blockbusters.
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The danger in the release of the new "Star Trek" movie this week, with TV veteran J.J. Abrams behind the camera, is that focusing on pleasing existing fans would make it harder to attract a new generation of moviegoing fans to the franchise, and could make this its last hurrah. But a new film that ignored four decades of tradition, and four decades of fans, could never have the staying power to be a summer blockbuster success.
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