Lyric looks to make the leap to digital

Ben Mozer, a Fort Collins native, is the catalyst behind The Lyric Cinema, the city’s only independent movie theater. But after more than five years in business, The Lyric could soon go dark, thanks to the shift to digital film formats. Catching up to today’s technology will take a lot of money. Mozer is in the middle of a campaign to raise $150,000 that, he says, is critical to keeping The Lyric alive:

Q. Let’s start at the top. What spurred the idea of The Lyric?

When I was 14 my family went to Spain, where theaters with couches and beer were…