Saturday afternoon we drove to Savor Cinema (about a five-minute trip) to watch the live action shorts nominated for an Academy Award. We see them every year; some years they’re better than others; but we’re always grateful for the opportunity to watch them, as well as other movies mainstream theaters ignore. Next month, at Cinema Paradiso in Hollywood, we will see Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig, which was shot in secret in Tehran, and is also up for an Oscar. These two little theaters, run by the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, have hung on while other art movie houses, like the Tower Theater in Miami and The Living Room in Boca Raton, have closed. Movie lovers in Broward are lucky to have them
