Reel Communities: The Contemporary Practice of Independent Movie Theatres in Toronto
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Abstract
Toronto has long been famous as the film metropolis of Canada, not only because of its production of films but because of its generation of an exemplary form of moviegoing. The formation of its unique filmgoing culture is attributed to the city’s once-flourishing market for film exhibition, which consisted of first-run movie theatres, independent movie theatres, and film festivals. Although first-run, corporate-owned theatres such as Cineplex (which claims a disproportionately large amount of market share) dominate the mainstream market, independent movie theatres have historically and culturally functioned in a unique way and contributed to the city’s vibrant filmgoing culture. Ever since the collapse of Festival Cinema - once the biggest repertory cinema chain in Canada- in 2006, and due to the ascendency of multiplexes and streaming services, independent (indie) cinemas in Toronto have found themselves in crisis, simultaneously facing a major decline in attendance and a dearth of available film content. At the present time, only five indie cinemas remain in business: Fox Theatre, Kingsway Theatre, Revue Cinema, Paradise Theatre and The Royal. This thesis project, which consists of a thesis paper and a documentary film, aims to use the Revue Cinema as a case study. The Revue is the oldest cinema in Toronto and is currently operating as a community-based, not-for-profit organization. This thesis project, Reel Communities: The Contemporary Practice of Independent Movie Theatres in Toronto investigates two major themes: 1) the cultural and social significance of independent cinemas in today’s Toronto; 2) how theatre owners programmers of independent cinemas are adapting their businesses to cope with major shifts in the film industry.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.028 | 0.021 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.009 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".