A year ago in these pages, we lamented the passing of the Bethesda Theatre Caf�. Since then, movie-starved Bethesdans had to either settle for the humdrum programming, depressing sterility, and shoddy presentation of their local UA multiplex or travel to more enlightened locales.

But just as our mourning period ended and we came to accept the inexorable cost of progress, we awoke to a fabulous surprise, barely suspecting that a treasure had grown beneath the constant construction that’s been altering our once-quiet little burb into a tentacle of the city. But there it was, amid the trendy new eateries and boutiques, beckoning with a garish black and yellow deco sign. Overnight, we’d been transformed from a cinematic backwater into the crown jewel of Washington-area moviegoing.

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