Picks and Pans Review: The Movie Palaces

By Jeff Jarvis

UPDATED 07/20/1987 at 01:00 AM EDT • Originally published 07/20/1987 at 01:00 AM EDT

PBS (Wed., July 15, 10:30 p.m. ET)

B

And they wonder why only tens of millions of people go to the movies while hundreds of millions of people stay home watching TV. It's because they don't make movie theaters like they used to—like the grand palaces Gene Kelly shows us in this slightly disorganized but still wow-inspiring half hour.