{"id":971971,"date":"2026-07-31T20:03:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T20:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/971971\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T20:03:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T20:03:19","slug":"is-l-a-the-greatest-moviegoing-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/971971\/","title":{"rendered":"Is L.A. the greatest moviegoing city?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                 <a class=\"link\" aria-label=\"Rebecca Castillo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/rebecca-castillo\" data-click=\"enhancedBylineAuthorImage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img class=\"image\" alt=\"Rebecca Castillo staff headshot at LA Times Photo Studio in El Segundo, CA on Thursday, July 24, 2025\"   width=\"130\" height=\"130\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1785528198_864_.jpeg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>  <\/a>  <a class=\"link\" aria-label=\"David Viramontes\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/david-viramontes\" data-click=\"enhancedBylineAuthorImage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img class=\"image\" alt=\"David Viramontes. (Ricardo DeAratanha \/ Los Angeles Times)\"   width=\"130\" height=\"130\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768741210_992_.jpeg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>  <\/a>      July 31, 2026 12:34 PM PT        <\/p>\n<ul data-element=\"action-bar-menu\" class=\"flex gap-2 list-none \">\n<li data-element=\"action-bar-share\" class=\"flex  relative \">\n<p> Share via     Close extra sharing options  <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Is L.A. the greatest moviegoing city? Well, where else can you meet Hannah Einbinder at a week night screening? Ahead of her new film \u201cTeenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma,\u201d the actor worked a shift as a guest clerk at Vidiots\u2019 movie rental store. We talked to customers about what makes L.A. such a special place to watch movies.<\/p>\n<p>               <a class=\"link\" aria-label=\"Rebecca Castillo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/rebecca-castillo\" data-click=\"authorBioImage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1785528198_864_.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"130\" height=\"130\"\/> <\/a>           <\/p>\n<p class=\"author-bio-text\">Rebecca Castillo is a content creator for the Los Angeles Times. Previously, she was a special projects lead for the Times\u2019 High School Insider and other Public Affairs programs. A Southern California native, she is an alumna of Swarthmore College and USC. In her free time, you can find her hanging out at the Silver Lake Reservoir, drinking boba and exploring the city on foot.<\/p>\n<p>         <a class=\"link\" aria-label=\"David Viramontes\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/david-viramontes\" data-click=\"authorBioImage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768741210_992_.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"130\" height=\"130\"\/> <\/a>           <\/p>\n<p class=\"author-bio-text\">David Viramontes is an audience editor for Entertainment and Arts. Before coming to the Los Angeles Times, he worked at Variety, the entertainment industry magazine. He graduated from the USC and grew up in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 31, 2026 12:34 PM PT Share via Close extra sharing options Is L.A. the greatest moviegoing city?&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":971972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,390182,390179,4446,10713,390178,390181,340874,6276,2961,224,2444,5337,122481,315236,390180,11016,203222],"class_list":["post-971971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-camp-miasma","tag-david-viramontes-july","tag-death","tag-foot","tag-great-moviegoing-city","tag-guest-clerk","tag-high-school-insider","tag-l-a","tag-la","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-losangeles","tag-new-film","tag-swarthmore-college","tag-teenage-sex","tag-usc","tag-vidiots"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117016385071081796","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/971972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}