Guerilla drive-ins

VCR's and video stores may have exported art films to every corner of the US, but they also left people stranded in their living rooms, starved for the community and fun of rep houses and B-movie drive-ins.

For three years, cult-movie buffs have been organizing "guerrilla drive-ins" in US cities, bringing along digital projectors, DVD players, and radio transmitters or stereo speakers, spreading the word online, and assembling on parking lots or fields to watch obscure films beneath the stars.

High-quality DVD players, digital projectors and iPods have put the technology of drive-in movies into the hands of anyone with $1,500 to spare, giving rise to outdoor movie nights in locations from warehouse packing districts to suburban cul-de-sacs.

From New York Times.