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Sony says it plans to reopen and restore the iconic Cinerama Dome, a historic Los Angeles landmark for film buffs, after a six-year shutdown that began during the pandemic. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/24/companies/cinerama-dome-sony-reopen/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #cineramadome #sony #us #losangeles #cinemas

Sony says it plans to reopen and restore the iconic Cinerama Dome, a historic Los Angeles landmark for film buffs, after a six-year shutdown that began during the pandemic. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/24/companies/cinerama-dome-sony-reopen/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #cineramadome #sony #us #losangeles #cinemas

Christopher Nolan: ‘If I owned a smartphone I’d be horribly addicted’

He also beams when I bring up the scene in which the witch Circe, played by Samantha Morton,…
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The Sally Army, the “Scabby Lala” and X-Rated in the City: the thread about the La Scala Electric Theatre

Cinemas are one of those local history topics that are guaranteed to get people enthusiastically excitable. Everyone of a certain age in the city has their story of where they (or their granny) use to go to the pictures. Mention the name La Scala and you’ll more than likely get a knowing nod and an utterance of the term fleapit: mention the Classic and you’ll get either a complete denial or a sharp intake of breath. Both names were different guises of the same establishment. A recent planning application for its long-vacant building provides me with an opportune excuse, as if one was needed, to reflect on its surprisingly long, interesting history, to fill a few gaps and to correct a few misconceptions. A remarkable and largely overlooked survivor, it was at times pioneering, at times pious and at others plain seedy.

Our story goes all the way back to 1862 when a 1,500 seat music hall, the New Royal Alhambra, was opened at 50 Nicolson Street by William Paterson. This replaced his earlier venture – the Alhambra – that had opened only the year before and which was Edinburgh’s first music hall. Its wooden structure was soon condemned and a replacement was built directly across the road, making it the first such purpose-built venue in the city. Designed by architect David MacGibbon, the interior was modelled on Broughton Street’s newly completed Royal Queen’s Theatre (better known as the Theatre Royal). There was no need to replicate the exterior however as our subject is somewhat unusual in not having one of note. It is located behind an older tenement at number 46 Nicolson Street and cannot be seen from the street. This plot had previously been used as a horse-hirer’s yard and was accessed down narrow lanes from that were later roofed over. The grand opening took place on Monday 29th September and prominent adverts were taken out on the front page of all the main local newspapers. From these were are provided with a very thorough description of the entertainment and the premises.

The venture was a resounding success but when Paterson tried to take the place upmarket and focus on stage plays – as The Princess’s Theatre – it faltered. In 1867 he returned it to variety performance but sold it the following year to Alexander Duncan McNeill. It was taken upmarket again as the Royal Princess’s. In 1869 McNeill put on a play from his own pen, The Gloamin’ and the Mirk: or a Story of Modern Athens. A satire on Edinburgh, this proved to be so popular that it ran for 15 months. He died in November 1884 at the age of just 55 from cirrhosis of the liver. His son and deputy manager, William Alexander McNeill, continued to run the business but it closed two years later in the face of stiff competition from the Theatre Royal and Royal Lyceum.

One Samuel Horatio St Austin attempted to take over the licence in September 1886 but was turned down on a number of grounds. These included fire safety, the proximity of residential tenements and inadequate ventilation (as we will find out later, these issues have been repeated sticking points in planning applications for the site in recent years). A new occupant was eventually found in 1891 when the lease was taken over by The Salvation Army. With minor alterations they inaugurated it as a meeting hall (or Barracks in the quasi-military parlance of their organisation) on March 24th 1892. The opening ceremony was conducted in the presence of Catherine Bramwell-Booth, daughter of the Army’s founder “General” William Booth. Recent stripping of the interior of the auditorium has revealed a large, well-preserved Salvation Army crest painted on the rear wall (see picture gallery at the end of the post).

The Sally Army remained at number 50 for twenty years, until February 1912 when the hall was purchased by Photoplays Ltd. This company was controlled by cinema pioneer Ralph Pringle. It was a time of rapid expansion of this new form of entertainment and between 1910 and 1914 no fewer than 29 picture houses would be opened in the Edinburgh and Leith. Most of these were converted from existing halls and theatres and Pringle totally re-constructed and re-decorated his new venue at a cost of £1,600, to designs by architect Hippolyte Blanc.

The curtain went up at the La Scala Electric Theatre on December 30th that year, its namesake being the historic Teatro alla Scala opera house in Milan. This exotic name was much in vogue at the time, Scotland is littered with former cinemas of this name. The capacity was 800, with “about 450” in the balcony and “about 250” in the stalls below (clearly something doesn’t add up here). The projection box was located at the rear of the stalls, under the balcony. The first films shown were the Western Custer’s Last Fight and The Shuttle of Fate, a film about a shipwreck. A continuous daily programme was shown thereafter from 10:30AM to 11:45PM, changing twice a week. Prices at opening ranged from 4d in the stalls to 9d in the grand circle.

It was an instant hit, its selection of films praised by the Evening News as having a “high standard of merit.” Like many early cinemas, variety turns were put on between shows, for which there was a 12ft deep stage. Such acts were known as Lantern Coolers as they had originated with the need to allow projectors to cool in between reels. The evenings were entirely given over to films however, these being shown exclusively after 630PM. Pringle built up a small chain across Scotland and the north of England, including two houses called Pringle’s Picture Palace in Edinburgh. His gilded RP monogram persisted long afterwards in the gilded décor around the balcony, indeed it is still very visible to this day in recent auction photos.

Ralph Pringle quit the cinema industry almost as quickly as he had gotten into it and sold all his shares in the holding company in 1914. The -Electric Theatre part of the name was dropped two years later and it became simply La Scala. The 1928 Kinematograph Year Book records the venue was managed by Miss M. Baillie and its prices ranged from 5d to 2s. The age of the Talkies arrived in February 1930 when an RCA sound system was installed. The first such film shown was The Drake Case starring Gladys Brockwell and Robert Frazer

This show was Brockwell’s final film, she had died in July the previous year in a car accident in Holywood. The old silent programme supported by variety artistes (“Smart & Wilson, the Comedy Duo” and “Tom Robinson, the Singing Pit Boy“) had been run right up to this change of technology.

A further change came four years later when in 1934 the cinema joined the circuit of Peter Crerar. Except for a burglary in May 1935, when a days takings were stolen by blowing the door off the manager’s safe, it led a relatively quiet, low-key life thereafter. Like most small, first-generation picture houses it was able to survive by undercutting its ticket prices relative to the wave of fashionable large Super Cinemas built in the ‘thirties. For example, in 1950 it was charging 1s for the stalls; the New Victoria along the road on Clerk Street started at 1s 9d. This required it to be run on the tightest of margins and there was little leftover for investment in the place. As such these sorts of houses generally declined over time, earning reputations for themselves as being “flea pits“. The La Scala would become known in the Southside by the derisory nickname of the Scabby Lala.

This strategy paid off and the La Scala survived, outlasting far grander venues and the even dingier ones too. A name came change on 27th April 1974 when it became the Classic after being taken over by the London-based chain of that name. This company had hit on a way to make these small, decrepit cinemas pay: pornography. They told Allen Wright, the Scotsman’s cinema reviewer, that takings more than doubled after the introduction of X-rated films to the Nicolson Street playbill. This was a shrewd move as Edinburgh’s principle other house of cinematic ill repute, the (Racey) Jacey, had closed the previous May, leaving a smut-shaped gap in the market. In Another Edinburgh, an alternative guide to the city published in 1976, it is wryly noted that the establishment supported the British film industry by “screening sex – Swedish sex – Swiss sex – Siberian Sex, sextcetera“. There were also “liberal doses” of Kung Fu and “occasional worthies” late at night on Friday and Saturday. In the 2016 novel A Decent Ride by Irvine Welsh, the protagonist credits his visits to the Classic with being the source of his sexual prowess.

In November 1974 the Salon on Baxter’s Place, another renowned fleapit, closed making the Classic the city’s oldest operational picture house. In the spirit of its old tradition of stage entertainment, in 1976 it was a Festival Fringe venue for a show called Tubular Balls. New management came in 1979 with a takeover by Lew Grade’s Associated Communications, by which time the chain had grown to 141 theatres. Grade lost control of his conglomerate in 1982 to Robert Holmes à Court, who immediately began to break it up. This resulted in the cinemas being bought by the American B-movie film producers Cannon Group.

Understandably, both premises and patrons kept a relatively low profile and as such very little can be found in contemporary newspapers about it. One of the few incidents of note happened on April 26th 1979 when a fire broke out that required 50 firefighters and six appliances from four stations to bring under control. The alarm was raised at 1:30AM in the morning when residents of the tenement above found smoke coming through their floorboards. In 1982, one customer was fined £120 for Breach of the Peace by Edinburgh District Court for assaulting an usherette. Philip Boyle, 24, had been drinking and had retried to the Classic to “sleep it off”. When Ruby McClory tried to rouse him from his slumber by shining her torch in his face, he slapped her, grabbed the torch and threw it away. It hit Donald Tindell on the head to his injury.

A more serious fire occurred next door at the recently-opened Uptown restaurant and disco on the morning of 12th April that year when hay bales brought in as props for a Wild West theme night caught fire. £50,000 of damage was caused to the disco – on the first floor – although the restaurant below was largely untouched. Seven months later, on the morning of 15th November, fire returned to the premises and this time finished what it had started. Such was the ferocity of this blaze that the gutted building had to be demolished the next day. Somehow, the cinema survived these three fires largely unscathed.

Cannon sold the cinema in March 1986 to local businessman and former lower-league footballer Jim Wight (probably as a result of acquiring the bigger and better ABC on Lothian Road). It was briefly renamed first The Cinema before settling on the Metro, although both names seem to have been used side-by-side at this time. Wight told the Evening News that his mother disapproved of the adult content of his investment and was no longer talking to him. His initial plan was to renovate and increase the capacity of the cinema, open a restaurant and show a mixed bill of film and stage shows suitable for a family audience. The pornographic programme persisted however and Wight soon seems to have given up on the scheme. The final X-rated showings seem to have taken place during the week beginning 27th October that year, closing to a headline stage show by risqué clubland comedian Alec “Happy” Howden. The doors closed for the last time and the mantle of oldest cinema in the city was passed to the Cameo. This had originally opened in 1914 as The King’s and retains that accolade to this day. It was then sold to gambling entrepreneur Henry Spurway, whose company Him Sintar (Racing) Ltd converted it into Scotland’s first “betting parlour“: Live races were beamed on to the big screen by satellite.

Spurway’s venture does not seem to have lasted long either. An application for conversion into a live music venue was refused in 1990 on account of the potential for noise problems to affect the surrounding flats. Instead the following year it became the New Empire bingo hall, this name being transplanted up Nicolson Street from the Empire Bingo Hall. This had been located in the former Empire Theatre but had recently been served notice to quit its home ahead it being converted into the Festival Theatre. The name changed to Premier Bingo around 2000, in which form it continued – in an ever more dilapidated state – until closure in 2015. Permission was granted in 2013 for change of use to a “dance hall or discotheque“, although no changes to the premises were at that time proposed. This did however allow it to be used as once again as a Fringe venue, branded as the Laughing Horse and Live at the Empire. It also briefly housed the Sunday Assembly, an “atheist church”.

A series of applications were next made by the J D Wetherspoon chain in 2014 and 2015 for conversion into one of their trademark large public houses. These were refused on the grounds of inadequate ventilation and noise control. Wetherspoons bought the building for £440,000 in 2015 and in 2018 managed to have a revised application approved. This was contingent on installing a kitchen limited to reheating food using microwaves, panini presses and toaster ovens only, to prevent a smell nuisance from cooking smells venting from the kitchen. The owners were unhappy with this compromise as they contended that to make converting a historic building profitable they would have to offer a full food service. They successfully made a further application was in 2021 to remove the restrictive clauses whereby a full kitchen could be used with a recirculating extractor system. This application was given three years to complete, however the permission lapsed without ever being taken forward.

The building was instead put up for sale in April 2024, by which time a leaking roof had allowed substantial internal decay to occur. It was finally sold at auction in June 2025 for a price over £400,000. Pictures from the auction show the building is in a partially stripped state internally, with much of the ceiling missing as a result of a collapse caused by water ingress. Despite the damage, what is Edinburgh’s oldest intact cinema interior is in an remarkable state of preservation all things considered. Surviving details include Ralph Pringle’s gilded monograms around the balcony from 1912. Even more remarkable is a large Salvation Army crest painted on the wall behind the proscenium from the 1890s. It feels an exceptional oversight that this century-old interior was never listed and yet somehow endured. In April 2026 a planning application was made to turn the building into a large cafe-cum-venue by its new owners, Our Public, an independent coffee and bakery chain based in the East Midlands of England. Lets hope it can survive the attention of the very stark, fashionably Scandinavian aesthetic of these gourmet croissant merchants.

The history of the tenement above the cinema, at 46 Nicolson Street, has been researched and written-up by Diarmid Mogg for his excellent Tenement Town blog.

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Better than Streaming: Free Movie Admission For Senior Citizens In Muntinlupa City Restored

Welcome back fellow geeks and film buffs!

In the progressive city of Muntinlupa in the Philippines, the City Government led by Mayor Ruffy Biazon formally signed the memorandum of agreement (MOA) with three cinema operators – Alabang Town Center, Festival Mall and SM Center Muntinlupa – granting free admission for senior citizens with limits starting July 6, 2026, according to a Manila Bulletin news report.

This move effectively restored the movie benefit of senior citizens in the city. Regarding the limitations of the benefit, free movie admissions will happen once-a-week, either on Monday or Tuesday.

To put things in perspective, posted below is the excerpt from the Manila Bulletin news report. Some parts in boldface…

Senior citizens in Muntinlupa will once again be able to watch movies for free starting July 6, following the signing of an agreement between the city government and cinema operators.

On July 1, Muntinlupa Mayor Ruffy Biazon signed a memorandum of agreement with SM Center Muntinlupa, Festival Mall, and Alabang Town Center granting senior citizens free movie admission.

Biazon said bona fide residents of Muntinlupa can avail themselves of the free movie admission once a week, either on Monday or Tuesday.

In May, Biazon signed City Council Resolution No. 2026-333, which authorized him to enter into the agreement with cinema operators in the city.

The resolution stated: “Senior Citizens of Muntinlupa City are given preferential attention and priority to enjoy additional grants of incentives as an expression of gratitude for their invaluable contribution to the progress and prosperity of Muntinlupa City.”

This latest development will eventually attract more senior citizens to enter the specific commercial places that have cinemas. Festival Mall’s modern cinemas are located at the 4th floor (AKA 3rd level) while those at Alabang Town Center are on the ground floor. Watching movies on the big screen inside the cinema is more immersive and clearly better than streaming.

Streaming extremists who oppose cinema viewing cannot argue with the fact that almost all movies released from long ago were made for the big screen inside the theaters, not for smartphones, not for laptops and not for TV sets. I should state that senior citizens can enjoy spending time inside commercial joints socializing with friends after watching movies, and it definitely is not ideal for them to spend all their free time inside their homes. There is the human need for the temporary change of place and it is only the cinema that can provide them the immersive, big screen entertainment experience.

If you wish to join a group of movie enthusiasts and talk about cinema, cinematic trends, Blu-ray releases and more relevant stuff, visit the Movie Fans Worldwide Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/322857711779576

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Roteirista de Mortal Kombat II revela qual lutador foi cortado do filme: o roteirista Jeremy Slater revelou que considerou vários personagens, mas que um deles quase apareceu no filme, mas acabou sendo cortado https://ovicio.com.br/roteirista-de-mortal-kombat-ii-revela-qual-lutador-foi-cortado-do-filme/ #MortalKombat #Cinemas

Better than Streaming: Fire and Ice 4K Blu-ray Coming Out On June 30

Welcome back fellow geeks, Blu-ray collectors and movie buffs!

If you love the animated works of director Ralph Bakshi (American Pop, The Lord of The Rings) and the artworks of Frank Frazetta (Conan The Barbarian, Vampirella), then you should watch out for their memorable collaboration in ultra high-definition as the 1983 animated movie Fire and Ice will be released on 4K Blu-ray format on June 30, 2026, exclusively via MVDshop.

With a story co-written by Bakshi and Frazetta and the screenplay done by comic book legends Gerry Conway and Roy Thomas, Fire and Ice is the story of a young warrior named Larn who wants revenge against the evil queen Juliana and her son Nekron. Larn also has the task to rescue their kidnapped princess Teegra. For your interest and reference, watch the classic movie trailer below.

https://youtu.be/0u64CLs_yb4?si=Ys4OO4sKopU64-98

Fire and Ice 4K Blu-ray will be in a Steelbook form containing the 4K Blu-ray disc and the Blu-ray disc. For the 4K enthusiasts reading this, the classic animated film has been restored in 4K and the visuals are rendered in native 4K.

Posted below are the technical details from Fire and Ice’s Blu-ray.com page.

Video

Codec: HEVC / H.265

Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)

HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10

Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1

Audio

English: Dolby Atmos

English: Dolby TrueHD 7.1

English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1

English: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0

Subtitles – English, English SDH, French, Spanish

Discs – 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray Disc, Three-disc set (2 BD, 1 CD)

Packaging – SteelBook

Playback – 4K Blu-ray: Region free, 2K Blu-ray: Region A

I personally am interested in replaying Fire and Ice in 4K Blu-ray format. I saw Fire and Ice a few times a very long time ago on a rented video tape and on cable TV (randomly viewed it) but I never actually got to watch it entirely. Fire and Ice 4K Blu-ray is on my list of 4K Blu-ray releases of this year. I can only wonder when it would get offered via Amazon.

As for Ralph Bakshi, I admire his works on rotoscoped animation and how he visualized his concepts. His work on The Lord of the Rings animated film of 1978 was ambitious and he made the most out of their limited resources. I own a Blu-ray copy of his animated film American Pop and watching rotoscoped animated scenes and characters move in high-definition is enjoyable.

Fire and Ice, to the best of my memory, has a fantasy concept that reminds me somewhat of Conan The Barbarian (and the sword-and-sandals fantasy elements) and it also the traditional concept of the heroic man who risks his life to save an important woman from the forces of evil. To replay Fire and Ice in 4K is something I desire as a 4K Blu-ray collector and enthusiast of traditional animation.

Not to be outdone is the vocal cast that has William Ostrander, Maggie Roswell, Steve Sandor, Stephen Mendel and Susan Tyrell. The performances in Fire and Ice were strong.

To order a copy of Fire and Ice 4K Blu-ray now, click https://mvdshop.com/products/fire-and-ice-steelbook-4k-uhd-exclusive

If you wish to join a group of movie enthusiasts and talk about cinema, cinematic trends, Blu-ray releases and more relevant stuff, visit the Movie Fans Worldwide Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/322857711779576

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Primeiras Impressões | Dirigido por Lee Cronin, ‘Maldição da Múmia’ fica no meio do caminho com história pouco original: Lee Cronin fez sua estreia oficial no cenário cinematográfico com o terror sobrenatural ‘The Hole in the Ground’. Lançado em 2019, a produção acompanhou uma mãe e um filho que se mudam para o interior da Irlanda. A mãe, então começa a suspeitar que o crescente comportamento bizarro da criança pode estar atado a um https://cinepop.com.br/primeiras-impressoes-dirigido-por-lee-cronin-maldicao-da-mumia-fica-no-meio-do-caminho-com-historia-pouco-original-728830/ #Cinemas #FilmesDeTerror

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People standing in the back.
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Someone gets their fifth #coffee

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Why are decades-old anime like “Tekkonkinkreet,” “Jin-roh” and “Macross Plus" returning to multiplexes? Lower risk, loyal fans and a chance for new audiences to discover forgotten classics. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2026/03/13/film/anime-revival-screenings/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #film #anime #cinemas

Why are decades-old anime like “Tekkonkinkreet,” “Jin-roh” and “Macross Plus" returning to multiplexes? Lower risk, loyal fans and a chance for new audiences to discover forgotten classics. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2026/03/13/film/anime-revival-screenings/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #film #anime #cinemas

Kristen Stewart Buys Highland Theatre, Plans To Create “Something For The Community … Not Just Pretentious Hollywood Cinephiles”
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https://deadline.com/2026/02/kristen-stewart-buys-highland-theatre-plans-community-1236709366/

Kristen Stewart Buys Highland Theatre, Plans To Create “Something For The Community … Not Just Pretentious Hollywood Cinephiles”
#News #Cinemas #HighlandTheatre #KristenStewart #MovieTheaters

https://deadline.com/2026/02/kristen-stewart-buys-highland-theatre-plans-community-1236709366/

Globo de Ouro 2026 - indicados, quando e onde ver, e tudo mais que você precisa saber da premiação: Cerimônia abre as grandes premiações do cinema do ano neste domingo. 'O Agente Secreto' concorre em três categorias — com Wagner Moura disputando troféu de Melhor Ator. https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/articles/crrn0zvdq00o #GloboDeOuro2026 #Cinemas

https://www.evshift.com/374027/peugeot-x-showcase-cinemas-2/ Peugeot X Showcase Cinemas #cinemas #ElectricCars #ElectricVehicles #EV #peugeot #PeugeotCars #PeugeotUK #Showcase

https://www.alojapan.com/1426275/a-movie-buff-in-jimbocho-bets-on-independent-cinema-in-a-big-way/ A movie buff in Jimbocho bets on independent cinema in a big way #ChiyodaWard #Cinemas #film #JapaneseFilm #jimbocho #news #Tokyo #TokyoNews #東京 #東京都 Japan’s independent cinemas (“mini-theaters” in the local parlance) are havens for fans of arthouse films, but many are facing precarious financial times. Factors like streaming services and the COVID-19 pandemic hit Japanese moviegoing hard: In 2024, the latest year on record, total admissions

Jimbocho’s latest addition isn’t a bookstore or a coffee shop but an independent cinema built by a film lover who wants audiences to take more chances. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/12/11/film/mini-theater-cinemalice/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #film #cinemas #film #japanesefilm #chiyodaward #jimbocho

Jimbocho’s latest addition isn’t a bookstore or a coffee shop but an independent cinema built by a film lover who wants audiences to take more chances. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/12/11/film/mini-theater-cinemalice/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #film #cinemas #film #japanesefilm #chiyodaward #jimbocho

"Cinemas were once institutions that served important social, cultural, educational and economic functions. In the pre-television era, these landmark buildings provided the people with communal experiences. Today, for most people, watching a movie has gone from being a shared experience to a siloed and personalised act of private, if not solitary, consumption"

https://biblioasia.nlb.gov.sg/vol-21/issue-4/jan-mar-2026/history-singapore-cinemas/

#History #Singapore #Cinemas

"Cinemas were once institutions that served important social, cultural, educational and economic functions. In the pre-television era, these landmark buildings provided the people with communal experiences. Today, for most people, watching a movie has gone from being a shared experience to a siloed and personalised act of private, if not solitary, consumption"

https://biblioasia.nlb.gov.sg/vol-21/issue-4/jan-mar-2026/history-singapore-cinemas/

#History #Singapore #Cinemas

Cinéma : le nombre de films français réalisés par des femmes recule pour la 3e année consécutive. En 2024, seuls 62 films portés par la France étaient réalisés ou coréalisés par des femmes. https://www.franceinfo.fr/culture/cinema/cinema-la-part-de-femmes-realisatrices-tombe-a-son-plus-bas-niveau-en-cinq-ans-alerte-le-cnc_7641194.html

#cinemas #féminisme

Cinéma : le nombre de films français réalisés par des femmes recule pour la 3e année consécutive. En 2024, seuls 62 films portés par la France étaient réalisés ou coréalisés par des femmes. https://www.franceinfo.fr/culture/cinema/cinema-la-part-de-femmes-realisatrices-tombe-a-son-plus-bas-niveau-en-cinq-ans-alerte-le-cnc_7641194.html

#cinemas #féminisme

Psssst! Gleich wieder in der BASTION: Das Zirkeltraining, Bochums erster Geheimbund für seriöse Freaks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5tMk2kFNQg

#bastionbochum #bochum #bochumkultur #kultur #subkultur #underground #stayingundergroundsince2002 #nobudgetarts #ruhrgebiet #venue #chamäleon #chameleon #daskleinstekinobochums #independentmovies #cinema #movietheater #movietheaters #cinemas #Zirkeltraining #Recherche #Fakten #Vortragsskills #Geheimbund #Spaß #Freaks

‘A monument to kindness’: the rise of Britain’s #community #cinemas

like eg #Oxford's #UPP (not mentioned in the piece though).

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/oct/20/britain-community-cinemas-film-screens

‘A monument to kindness’: the rise of Britain’s #community #cinemas

like eg #Oxford's #UPP (not mentioned in the piece though).

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/oct/20/britain-community-cinemas-film-screens

THE BIG BAD FOX AND OTHER TALES - Benjamin Renner & Patrick Imbert (2017) ★★★
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Super cute, it's a real pleasure to follow these hilarious and charming animal adventures. We'd love to see more, actually. Next!

#film #cinema #filmphotography #cinemas #cine #animation #animatedmovie

#Horror #film Together pulled from #Chinese #cinemas after ‘unauthorised’ editing out of #gaycouple

https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/25/together-film-pulled-china-cinemas-unauthorised-editing-gay-couple-ai/

‘The Mastermind’ ganha trailer e pôster oficiais

A Mubi, distribuidora global, serviço de streaming e produtora, e a Imagem Filmes apresentam o trailer e o pôster oficiais do novo filme de Kelly Reichardt (First Cow, Esculturas da Vida), The Mastermind, que estreia nos cinemas brasileiros em 16 de outubro.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n5WqcsxNuY

Em um canto tranquilo de Massachusetts, por volta de 1970, JB Mooney (Josh O’Connor), um carpinteiro desempregado que se torna ladrão de arte amador, planeja seu primeiro grande assalto. Mas, quando tudo sai dos trilhos, sua vida começa a desmoronar.

The Mastermind, que teve sua estreia mundial no Festival de Cannes deste ano, é estrelado por Josh O’Connor (Rivais, La Chimera), Alana Haim (Licorice Pizza), John Magaro (Vidas Passadas, First Cow), Gaby Hoffmann (Transparent, Girls), Bill Camp (12 Anos de Escravidão, Coringa) e Hope Davis (Anti-herói Americano, Synecdoche, New York).

Avalie isto:

#AlanaHaim #assalto #BillCamp #Cinema #cinemas #estreiaBrasil #FestivalDeCannes #filme #Filmes #GabyHoffmann #HopeDavis #ImagemFilmes #JohnMagaro #JoshOConnor #KellyReichardt #Massachusetts #Mubi #TheMastermind

Après l’édition et les médias, Vincent Bolloré fait main basse sur le cinéma

Canal+, propriété du milliardaire d’#ExtrêmeDroite, a annoncé son intention de racheter le réseau de #cinémas #UGC. Une acquisition qui tend à reproduire dans le cinéma la stratégie d’intégration verticale jusqu’ici appliquée dans l’#édition et la #presse. Avec les risques de reprise en main idéologique qu’elle comporte.

Par Yunnes Abzouz › https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/culture-et-idees/030925/apres-l-edition-et-les-medias-vincent-bollore-fait-main-basse-sur-le-cinema?at_medium=rs-cm&at_campaign=mastodon&at_account=mediapart

Psssst! Heute Abend wieder in der BASTION: Das Zirkeltraining, Bochums erster Geheimbund für seriöse Freaks.
Mehr Infos unter: www.no-budget-arts.de

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5tMk2kFNQg

#bastionbochum #bochum #bochumkultur #kultur #subkultur #underground #stayingundergroundsince2002 #nobudgetarts #ruhrgebiet #venue #chamäleon #chameleon #daskleinstekinobochums #independentmovies #cinema #movietheater #movietheaters #cinemas #Zirkeltraining #Recherche #Fakten #Vortragsskills #Geheimbund #Spaß #Freaks

@FenrirIII

So, 23 minutes instead of 27 minutes?

Gosh, how nice of them. 🙄

#cinemas #amc #movies #enshittification

The thread about some of Edinburgh, Leith and Portobello’s old cinemas and how they fit into the modern streetscape

This thread was originally written and published in August 2018.

Edinburgh and Leith were once full of cinemas, and speak to anyone of a certain generation and they will go a bit misty eyed telling you about their picture house, and which ones were “fleapits“. This thread thread takes a whistlestop tour of some old photos of old cinemas, overlaid against the modern street scene to help listeners of a younger generation appreciate how they relate to our world now.

At Abbeymount, The Regent cinema which was open 1927-1970. The façade was converted from the Palace Brewery buildings which were its predecessor on the site. The plot is now occupied by one of the ubiquitous PBSA (Purpose-Built Student Accommodation) blocks. Named after the Regent Road and Bridge up the hill, the bar at the top of Abbeymount is also called The Regent.

As the above picture of The Regent seemed to be popular, I did another cinema. Here’s the Ritz on Rodney Street, which was open 1929 – 1981 by which time it was known as an ABC. It was one of the first cinemas in town opened purely for the new fangled talkies. The building was demolished in 1983.

The Tudor was perhaps one of Edinburgh’s weirdest looking cinema? Actually known as The Palace and then St. Bernard’s, it was the Savoy for most of its operational life, until 1960. Located on St. Bernard’s Row, just off of Raeburn Place in Stockbridge. It opened in 1911, was closed in 1966 and the building demolished in 1982.

Poole’s Synod Hall on Castle Terrace. The ecclesiastical name came from its roots as the United Presbyterian Church’s Synod Hall, although in a nice 360° turn of events it was actually built as an entertainment venue called The New Edinburgh Theatre. When that venture failed, almost ruining one of its principal backers, the eminent local architect, businessman and politician Sir James Gowans, the U.P. Church stepped in. It ceased to be required by them after they merged with the Free Church in 1900 to form the United Free Church, at which point the Town Council took it over and sublet it for various purposes. One of the lets was the Poole family of travelling entertainers who increasingly turned the venue over to early cinema shows, including one of the first showings of a talkie in the city in 1926. However the building remained in the ownership of the city who eventually desired an opera house and had it demolished in 1966; coincidentally the same year that they allowed Sir James Gowans’ masterpiece, his villa of Rockville in Merchiston to also be demolished. The city fell out with its business partner for the opera house scheme and nothing came of it. The plot lay vacant for about 30 years until eventually being by an office block called Saltire House.

A much less well known establishment was the Blue Halls on Lauriston Street. This was converted from the West Port Livestock Market in 1930 as a talkies venue and had 1,780 seats. Renamed the Beverley in 1954 and closed in 1959. The cinema was demolished soon after and the plot lay vacant until the whole block was cleared around 1971 and replaced by a brutalist office block for the Post Office called West Port House. It was vacated in 1997 and met the same fate as the cinema ten years thereafter, being demolished and replaced by another new office block.

If you’ve ever wondered where the Alhambra Bar on Leith Walk took it’s name from then meet The Alhambra Theatre. Opened in 1914 as a variety hall, it functioned as a full cinema from 1915 to 1958 becoming yet another victim of the rise of home television and an Entertainment Tax that made many already marginal venues unprofitable. It lay vacant for sixteen years after closure and was not demolished until 1974, to make way for a garage. It is now the site of a Majestic wine store but you can still enjoy a pre or post theatre libation over the road in the Alhambra, you just have to go elsewhere for the show.

The Embassy on Boswall Parkway, East Pilton was opened in 1937 as a “super cinema” to serve an otherwise cinema-less large area of new housing estates. It was a common failure of Edinburgh’s interwar, peripheral housing schemes that a large concentration of new housing was erected on greenfield sites far from the trappings of life like shops and pubs; and cinemas! This was a bit of a downer to life in what was otherwise good quality housing that was a huge improvement on the inner-city slums that they were built to replace. The Embassy closed in 1964 after a fire but requests to run it as either a dance hall or bingo hall were declined and it was demolished in 1975. It is now the site of a modern housing block.

The County on Wauchope Avenue in Craigmillar, which was a Bingo hall by the time this photo was taken in 1970. Its predecessor, the Rio had opened in 1936 but had been largely gutted by a fire on October 11th 1946. When it re-opened in 1950 its proprietors also ran the County in Portobello and so it took on that name too. It closed again some thirteen years later and was turned over to Bingo, a common fate for cinemas. It was similar to The Embassy in that it arrived in a peripheral housing scheme that had precious little in the way of entertainment venues (it did not get a pub, The White House, until 1936). In the image below it is imposed on a 2008 image of the remains of the by then decrepit housing estate, and it in turn is too overlaid on what was still a vacant plot in 2018. The area is almost unrecognisable now, covered in new housing and a large Lidl supermarket.

Poole’s Roxy at the western end of Gorgie Road was opened by the same family who ran the Synod Hall in 1937 as a 2,000 seater super-cinema. It served both the established tenement community of Gorgie as well as newer housing schemes built in the district at Chesser, Stevenson, Hutchison, Stenhouse and Whitson. A Mickey Mouse Club was a particular draw to this establishment. It closed as a cinema in 1963, and after a brief attempt to run it as a joint Cine-bingo establishment, it spent the next 40-odd years serving only Bingo to patrons; 14 years longer than it was a cinema. The auditorium is now gone and replaced with flats, but the façade has been retained and the ground floor is now a giant ice cream parlour.

The Palace on Princes Street was opened in 1913 and was a high-class establishment in the Georgian classical style befitting its surroundings, with a sumptuous interior, the Wedgewood Cafe and smoking rooms. It was slightly slow to catch up with the competition and was only converted for talkies in late 1930. Its closure came before its time, in 1955, when the neighbouring Woolworths store bought the building to expand into from next door.

The Rutland, which once stood at the foot of Dewar Place on Canning Street, opened in 1930 and was one of Edinburgh’s largest cinemas, with seats for 2,200. Known for its “mighty unit” organ and an elaborately painted interior that included two thousand coloured lightbulbs. It closed for two days in 1950 before reopening as the Gaumont, part of the J. Arthur Rank chain. It closed after a devastating fire in 1963 and was demolished three years later It is now the site of an office block.

The Salon was an altogether smaller 800 seater on Baxter’s Place at the very top of Leith Walk. It opened in 1913 with an Arabian Nights theme; males staff dressed in turbans and females as dancers. As a result it was quickly nicknamed “the Harem“. It had a reputation for being rather seedy and run-down, but survived far longer than grander and more mainsteam venues by specialising in westerns. It closed in 1974 and the auditorium was demolished but the façade hung on (just) for another 40 years before being demolished in connection with the redevelopment of the listed block behind it of Baxter’s Place as a hotel.

No, not that old cinema on Bath Street in Portobello – by which I mean the George or County whose dilapidated Streamline Moderne shell is just still hanging on to life – I mean the other one. The Bungalow Electric Theatre was converted from a roller-skating rink in 1913 to show “animated pictures“. It was given a patriotic wartime renaming in 1942 as the Victory. It closed in 1956 and was used as a storage unit. Its remains were demolished in 2005, with a new block of flats built on the plot in 2017.

The entrance to Edinburgh Marine Gardens, a vast Edwardian amusement park, lies exactly where the entrance to Lothian Buses’ Marine Garage now is. The park was a permanent home for the structures of the 1908 Scottish National Exhibition at Saughton Park and included a variety of entertainments, including a cinema and dance hall. One of the early attractions was aviation, with the first flight across the Firth of Forth starting and ending here. During WW2, the shell of the ballroom was converted into a factory for building amphibious landing craft.