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I don't often go to the cinema in the day time; it seems strange to come out of the dark auditorium into the sunshine.
I saw A Sense of Ending for the second time. It's an interesting film and worth seeing. I gave it 3.5 stars :)
Director Huh Jung's thriller was selected as the opener of the London Korean Film Festival 2013.
On 6th November 2013, the London Korean Film Festival celebrated its eighth anniversary with a Special Premiere Gala at Cineworld in Haymarket. Hundreds of VIPs joined us at the Gala and the reception afterwards including Director Huh Jung and actor Son Hyun Joo and many who have continued to support the London Korean Film Festival over the years.
Film makers and producers joined the evening as well as film enthusiasts. Before the film screening, the President of the Republic of Korea, President Park Geun-hye attended the Gala, she was accompanied by Lord David Puttnam and UK Secretary of State for Culture Maria Miller MP from DCMS. Before the speeches, a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation in the cultural and creative industries between the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of the Republic of Korea and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland was also signed.
Tram-train 201 departs from the Centertainment tram stop on its way to Rotherham Parkgate.
At this stage, the heavy rail in the foreground, (Broughton Lane Jn.) is a separate system not used by the trams.
Brackets near the missing "pyramids" suggest that this part has yet to be completed. Time Square, Warrington, redevelopment.
I don't like to hear or watch the trailers because they often give away the plot, so I listen to music on my headphones while I wait for the film to start.
Robert Carlyle and his wife Anastasia Shirley arriving for the screening of California Solo at Cineworld. 28 June 2012. Photograph: Amy Muir © EIFF, Edinburgh International Film Festival
I needed to do a walk today and headed out towards Binns Road to see how work is going on the new retail park.
I wasn't surprised to find a road closed, but I was surprised to find it closed to pedestrians too. Some large scale demolition must be going on.
One thing that is definitely coming down is my old cinema. The stage they're at at the moment gives a really interesting view as we can see into the inside.
It looked REALLY weird from the front, as you looked through the front doors into the lobby and saw trees and daylight!
Paul Anderson, Otto Bathurst and Charlie Creed-Miles at the Peaky Blinders photocall at Cineworld, Edinburgh 25 June 2013. Photograph: Shona Wass © EIFF, Edinburgh International Film Festival All Rights Reserved
A car passes Cineworld Haymarket, where the Kneehigh Theatre production of Noel Coward's Brief Encounter is being performed live on stage.
Cineworld, Parnell Centre, Parnell Street, Dublin.
Cineworld Dublin is the biggest cinema in Ireland. It is owned by the cinema chain Cineworld. It was opened by Virgin Cinemas in 1995 as Virgin Cinemas Dublin, the only cinema that was opened by Virgin Cinemas in Ireland. In 1999, the Virgin Group sold Virgin Cinemas to French cinema chain, UGC. All Virgin Cinemas were rebranded as UGC and Virgin Cinemas Dublin was renamed UGC Dublin in 1999. In 2004, UGC's UK and Ireland operations were taken over by Cineworld. In 2005, the UGC cinemas in the UK and Ireland were rebranded as Cineworld. UGC Dublin was renamed Cineworld Dublin. We saw here The Tree of Life (2011, Terence Malick).
Source: Wikipedia.
A visit to Yeovil in Somerset (near the Dorset border).
We visited a few days after the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh came for the Diamond Jubilee.
This is the Yeo Leisure Park.
Near Cineworld.
Three cone sculptures near Cineworld.
Industria
Robert Carlyle photocall prior to Radio 5 Live "Wittertainment" event at Cineworld 21 June 2013. Photograph: Amy Muir © EIFF, Edinburgh International Film Festival All Rights Reserved
Director Andrew Douglas with Jamie Blackley, Joanne Froggatt, Toby Regbo and Amy Wren at the UWantMeToKillHim photocall at Cineworld, Edinburgh. 25 June 2013. Photograph: Silvia Escribano © EIFF, Edinburgh International Film Festival All Rights Reserved
The Cameo is an Edinburgh cinema which started life as the King's Cinema on 8 January 1914 and is one of the oldest cinemas in Scotland still in use. Since becoming the Cameo in 1949, it has had a tradition of showing art house films. From 1949 onward it has been an important venue for the Edinburgh International Film Festival. It is at Tollcross, and since 1992 has been a three-screen cinema. The Cameo was an independent cinema until 2012, when it was bought by the Picturehouse chain, owned by Cineworld.
History
Behind a modern shopfront, much of the cinema's original architectural character remains. The entrance lobby has a terrazzo floor and one of the original pair of ticket kiosks. An inner foyer leads to the main cinema built within the 'back green' or 'back court' (courtyard) of a tenement block. Cinemas were once built like this elsewhere in Scotland, the biggest being the Rosevale in Partick, but the Cameo is the only one still operating.
The original screen was mirrored, the first mirrored screen in Scotland, and there were 673 seats in an auditorium showing silent films with orchestral accompaniment, supplied at one time by Madam Egger's Ladies' Costume Orchestra. In 1930 the cinema was fitted for sound and could start showing talkies. The space has been left largely unchanged structurally, but the audience now have better sightlines and more comfort with fewer than half the original number of seats. There is an abundance of ornamental plasterwork: columns, cornices, decorative mouldings on walls and ceilings.
The cinema, and the full tenement it is part of, was awarded Category B listed status by Historic Scotland in 2006.
Jim Poole
In 1949 the cinema was renamed the Cameo by the new owner, Jim Poole (1911–1998), a member of the Poole family who were known for their touring Myriorama shows and who ran cinemas in Scotland and England. He had been in charge of two of the family's cinemas in Aberdeen before the Second World War, and after a posting as army entertainments officer in the Middle East, wanted to open a venue in Edinburgh where he could show foreign films.
The Cameo included art house and 'continental' films in its repertoire and started its association with the Edinburgh Film Festival in 1949, when it presented a 'Continental Film Festival', including a screen version of Sartre's Les jeux sont faits, alongside the documentaries being shown by the Edinburgh Film Guild. Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953) and Annie Hall (1977) were among Poole's successes in attracting good audiences for films not being shown by the big chains.
Poole had begun by rescuing a decaying building with a leaky roof. Later he was able to take over an adjacent shop which, in December 1963, became the first licensed (to sell alcoholic drinks) cinema bar in the city, despite neighbours' objections. When Poole retired in 1982 the Cameo stayed shut until 1986.
After 1986
Once the Edinburgh Filmhouse had opened in 1979 a few hundred yards away, the Cameo was no longer the only public cinema in Edinburgh showing alternative and foreign-language films. After a new owner took possession in 1986 more neighbouring shops were acquired to create space for second and third screens which opened in the early 1990s. A 2005 renovation plan proposing to change the original auditorium into a bar-restaurant was withdrawn after a well-supported 'Save the Cameo' campaign influenced council decision-making. In September 2006 Historic Scotland upgraded the conservation status of the cinema to a B listing, thus protecting the interior from future alteration. The Cinema Theatre Association had campaigned for this after the owners, Picturehouse, put the Cameo up for sale. They have now taken it off the market, drawn up new refurbishment plans, and invited contributions from sponsors.
The first film shown at the Cameo, in March 1949, was La symphonie pastorale, a rare surviving print of which was shown again at the cinema in March 2009 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the building re-opening as the Cameo.
The Cinema was named as one of the 10 best Independent Cinemas in the Guardian in January 2010.
Famous visitors
Lillian Gish, Orson Welles, Melina Mercouri and Cary Grant all visited the cinema in one Festival season or another. Sean Connery, who was born nearby, opened the bar in 1963. More recently Quentin Tarantino was there when Pulp Fiction opened in 1994 and Irvine Welsh was at the Cameo for the World première of Trainspotting in February 1996.
Other famous visitors throughout the years include Danny Boyle, Richard E. Grant, Fred Zinnemann, Robert Carlyle, Michèle Morgan, Peter Mullan, Christine Lahti, Mark Kermode, Claire Denis, Rutger Hauer, Liam Gallagher, Patsy Kensit, Ewan McGregor, Tim Roth, Guy Ritchie, Ken Loach, Bruce Campbell, Billy Bragg, Park Chan-wook, Ray Winstone, Robyn Hitchcock, Neil Jordan, Roy Keane, Charlize Theron, Duncan Jones, Michael Redgrave, Jim Dale, Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna, Alfonso Cuarón, Alejandro González Iñárritu, John Cusack, Tommy Wiseau and Danny Dyer.
In popular culture
The cinema appears in Sylvain Chomet's film The Illusionist. While hiding from the young couple, the main character, Tatischeff, accidentally enters the cinema, where Jacques Tati's Mon Oncle is playing. This is an in-joke as Tatischeff is largely based on Tati, the film itself having been adapted from a script of his.[6] Other films with scenes filmed inside the Cameo include Helena Bonham Carter's Woman Talking Dirty and Richard Jobson's A Woman in Winter. [Wikipedia]
I have a Cineworld Unlimited card which costs about £18/month. With it I can go to the cinema as often as I like. Today I've come to see an Indian film Arjun Patiala. Unlike the critics, I thought it's a very amusing film and well worth seeing ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
(I am very sparing with my stars, of the 47 films I've seen this year I've only given six films four stars.)
This is the view from the main road.
Looking unfinished (Is it?).
Back in the day, if a cinema had elevations to two roads, both sides would be decorated.
Perhaps the planners took into account that eventually the trees would hide this ugly mess?
Jamie Dornan at the Audi Dublin International Film Festival Irish premiere of the movie Anthropoid at Cineworld ,Dublin.Picture:Brian McEvoy.
Jamie Blackley and Toby Regbo at the UWantMeToKillHim photocall at Cineworld, Edinburgh. 25 June 2013. Photograph: Silvia Escribano © EIFF, Edinburgh International Film Festival All Rights Reserved
The Bagri Foundation London Indian Film Festival | 23 July 2015 | Closing Gala | 'Death of a Gentleman' London Premiere
Photograph by Elliott Franks
I went to the cinema this evening to see Phantom Thread. However, about twenty minutes into the film the screen went blank and soon after the lights came on. A member of staff apologised for the failure of the projector and said they were trying to fix it or transfer the film to another screen. After waiting a while longer I decided that I'd seen enough of the film to decide that it was not my cup of tea so I left. I got a ticket to see Roman J Israel Esq instead - even though I'd seen it yesterday evening. I think it improved at a second viewing ⭐️⭐️⭐️ +
The new entrance on Great Windmill St to this refurbished cinema, which includes a spacious cafe and restaurant (and a members' bar). (Photos of board inside, staircase from below and above, escalators welcome, the Arthurian Frieze and its plaque, entrance to screens 1 and 2 and screens 3-7.)
Address: Trocadero, Great Windmill Street.
Owner: Cineworld [Picturehouse Cinemas] (website).
Former Name(s): Cineworld Shaftesbury Avenue; UGC; Virgin; MGM Trocadero Cinemas.
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Cinema Treasures (history)
Robert Carlyle and his wife Anastasia Shirley arriving for the screening of California Solo at Cineworld. 28 June 2012. Photograph: Amy Muir © EIFF, Edinburgh International Film Festival
Crappy photo tonight but it was late and quite dark.
I've been to Cineworld for a secret screening - that's where people with Unlimited passes can get tickets for a mystery screening event, where the only thing you know about the film is the BBFC rating.
It turned out to be something called 'Crawl', which sounded like a creepy horror, but gave me hope when the opening scene was in a swimming pool so I thought it might be about swimming.
Alas, it was a very tedious creature feature about someone trapped in a flooding basement with alligators. Think 'Jaws' without the narrative, characters and dialogue.
It started with about 100 people and finished with about 60, with almost all of the walkouts within the first half hour. That's not that unusual for a secret screening.
The large mirrored modern cinema building built in 2000 as part of the Docklands developments around this part of Canary Wharf.
Address: 9-11 Hertsmere Road.
Former Name(s): UGC West India Quay.
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Jamie Blackley, Joanne Froggatt, Toby Regbo and Amy Wren at the UWantMeToKillHim photocall at Cineworld, Edinburgh. 25 June 2013. Photograph: Silvia Escribano © EIFF, Edinburgh International Film Festival All Rights Reserved