Dylan Skolnick is back at the Cinema Arts Centre. The Huntington cinema's staff directory, updated on Friday, November 6, lists him once again as co-director, two months after he left the post in September.

A founder returns

The return puts one of the cinema's founders back in charge of day-to-day operations. According to the cinema's own history, the Cinema Arts Centre was founded in 1973 by Vic Skolnick, Charlotte Sky and Dylan Skolnick, and it grew from those beginnings into a nonprofit community cinema with three theaters, the largest seating close to 300 people.

The cinema reports more than 10,000 members and about 150,000 visitors a year, and it estimates that it generates around $7 million in local spending. Over five decades it has hosted conversations with filmmakers and performers including Robert Altman, Spike Lee, Ang Lee, Steve Buscemi, Isabella Rossellini, Wim Wenders and Carol Burnett, along with a long list of community groups that use its theaters for talks and screenings.

Who is running the house now

The staff directory now names Skolnick as co-director alongside the cinema's department heads: Matt Baumback as business manager, Rene Bouchard as director of development, Nate Close as director of marketing and communication, Ted Cavooris as director of youth outreach, PJ Hanrahan as technical director and head projectionist, and Greg Cespedes running the cafe. Charlotte Sky remains on the roster as founding director emeritus.

The board of directors is led by co-chairs Matthew J. Daidola and Alex Caliman, and Skolnick also sits on it as an ex officio member.

What is playing

The screens are full this weekend. New releases on the schedule include You Can See Everything, The Only Living Pickpocket in New York and Emmanuel Courcol's The Marching Band. The Cult Cafe series shows Some Kind of Wonderful on Saturday night, the Cinema for Kids series has Fantastic Mr. Fox at noon on Sunday, and the Peter Weir retrospective continues with Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World on Tuesday, November 10, at 7:30 p.m. On Sunday afternoon, Norman Lear biographer Tripp Whetsell presents the 1971 comedy Cold Turkey.

Getting there and joining

The Cinema Arts Centre is at 423 Park Avenue in Huntington. The box office is at 631-423-7610, and showtimes, tickets and memberships are on the cinema's website. The cinema also sells gift cards and recruits volunteers through its site.

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