After Sunset

Directed by Jon Bokenkamp, this documentary is both a celebration of and a eulogy for a fading part of Americana, the unique offshoot of America's twin love affair with the automobile and movies. Invented in 1933, the drive-in movie theatre business mushroomed in the post-World War II era. Bokenkamp and three friends trek across the United States, visiting drive-in theatres and talking to die-hard folks who still run very personalized operations. Highlights include plenty of nostalgia, various oddities, and quaint peculiarities of the surviving and extinct drive-ins, as well as interviews with director John Carpenter, author Michael Wallis, satirical movie columnist Joe Bob Briggs (John Bloom), and producer Samuel Z. Arkoff.