If you're looking for an independent flick, the Film Forum in Manhattan gets rave reviews .... But the cinema holds another independent streak you won't see advertised. In all of 2003, it was the only Manhattan theater slapped with three critical health violations on one inspection.

In its continuing series of scare stories about health code violations at local eateries, New York City's crusading WCBS has now tackled movie theaters. I guess I appreciate the consumer-watchdog sentiment but, I mean, it's news that they found mice at a downtown joint like Film Forum? And is that supposed to spook us? Nah, Gotham cinephiles are made of sturdier stock than that. (I don't know many serious movie geeks who eat popcorn at the cinema anyway.) WCBS ought to head up here to the Westchester burbs, where popcorn moths fill the auditorium air and rats can be seen criss-crossing the aisles of some of our finer exhibition establishments.

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