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Nice to be able to return to the cinema after so many months - I'm a huge cinephile and never gone that long without watching a film in the cinema (watched plenty at home, but the experience is not the same). Cinema had good Covid saftey protocols in place so it felt pretty organised and safe (in fact felt safer than recent train trip where covidiots just ignored the rules on public transport!). Quick snaps with the phone before the programme started.
Acquired by Boom Consulting in October 2017, it was used as partof the Cineworld Unlimited Movie Tour for four days only between 31st May and 3rd June. The bus was acquired and fitted out solely for the purpose of this tour so it may be disposed of now that the tour has finished.
Temporarily Closed due to coronavirus pandemic
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]
Yet Again Many Thanks To Glen F For The Classic On The Left www.oldcolourimages.com/ Dolcis No More..Empire Cinema Now Owned By Cineworld...The Next Building Dates From 1899..And Behind That The Hippodrome 1900...The Square Has Been Pedestrianised Since The Early Eighties....
We have a smaller car park to one side of the huge Asda shoppers car park which was used for customers of Cineworld. It has ‘temporarily’ closed so the youngsters have taken over the space for skateboarding, skating and cycling. Its good to see they’re all wearing their masks which look perfectly in place with their outfits.
Saw a Typo on the walk through Touchwood to Cineworld in Solihull.
Not sure what kind of shop Typo will be though.
The nearly finished Telford Southwater project. There is a new Library, Cineworld and Premier Inn as well as a new lake.
Horrible weather today but good for the movies. Went to see Atomic Blonde, great soundtrack www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JeU0_1CTdA
The only non-native B7L in the First Glasgow fleet (transferred north in 2004 to replace a native B7L (SJ51 DJV/SV646/61655) written off due to severe fire damage), ex-Manchester/Mainline/Somerset & Avon 66349 (MV02 VDZ) turns onto Renfield St with a 7A from Summerston to Cambuslang (Westburn) in late April 2019.
It would end up becoming one of the last 5 B7Ls in FiG service, lasting until late August 2019 (last day in service being the 17th of that month).
Photo Date: 25th April 2019
The Woolton Picture House opened on 28 January 1928 with “seating accommodation for 860”. (source: The Bioscope). A plan of the auditorium dated 3 January 1928 states “to seat 800 persons”.
31 July 2020.
It's been announced that the Woolton has closed permanently.
Coronavirus has been blamed, but no mention was made of the competition from the Cineworld at Speke (opened August 2018), only 5 minutes away by car.
It has to be admitted that the Woolton only lasted so long because the nearest cinemas were either in Liverpool city centre or Runcorn.
Still, it's very sad, and the end of an era for Liverpool's oldest cinema.
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The following was written years ago, before the actual opening date was known.
Plans were first received by Liverpool’s Building Surveyor’s Department for this cinema on 3 June 1926. It was to be built for W. J. L. Croft of 7 Tynwald Hill, Stoneycroft, Liverpool. It would have 800 seats, all on one level. Another sheet of the plans shows that Mr Croft’s name had been crossed out and replaced with “Woolton Picture House Co. Ltd.”. By 8 July 1926, work hadn’t started and the Company was told: “Subject to compliance with the requirements of the City Surveyor, and with the condition that the work must be substantially in hand within six months, the bench approved plans for the erection of a Picture Hall in Mason Street, Woolton.” The Woolton was built by George R. Wright between the official starting and finishing dates of 27 Dec 1926 and 31 March 1928. It has been difficult to ascertain the actual opening date. It could have been anytime between 28 January 1928 and 2 March 1928. The Ingress and Egress certificate was first issued on 28 January 1928. (It wouldn’t have been possible for it to open before this certificate was issued). It might have opened on 1 February 1928.
When the Ritz Cinema in Utting Avenue was at the planning stage on 2 March 1928, it was stated to the Licensing Bench of the Magistrates that the applicant, a Mr Alfred Adams, was the “big shareholder” in each of the companies formed for this and two other cinemas. The two others were “the recently opened” Woolton cinema and the West Derby cinema which had then been open for “less than a year”. In 1987 the manager of the cinema said that it opened in November 1927, quoting the date stamped on the fireproof door of the operating room, but that was probably the date the door was made. The finishing-out details of the cinema were still underway. For example, an amended ground floor plan was submitted on 4 January 1928.
More recently (about 1998) the date has been given as 26 December 1927, but no proof has been provided to support this, apart from somebody saying that one of the residents remembered the date, which now appears on a plaque which is fixed to the outside wall.
The architect of the Ritz and the Woolton was Lionel A G Prichard. He also designed the Plaza in Crosby, and – in partnership with George Stanley Lewis – the Clubmoor. He also designed a number of Roman Catholic churches.
Original research by Philip G Mayer.
Cineworld Glasgow Renfrew Street con sus 203 pies (62 metros) de altura, es actualmente el cine más alto del mundo.
Tiene 18 pantallas en 6 niveles, y puede acomodar a más de 4.300 personas. Su rasgo más distintivo es el enorme muro cortina de vidrio de la cara oriental que alberga una serie de escaleras mecánicas que se cruzan y encienden de color azul neón durante las horas de oscuridad .
"In fear every day, every evening,
he calls her aloud from above.
Carefully watched for a reason,
painstaking devotion and love.
Surrendered to self preservation,
from others who care for themselves.
A blindness that touches perfection,
but hurts just like anything else.
Isolation, isolation, isolation....
But if you could just see the beauty,
these things I could never describe,
these pleasures a wayward distraction,
this is my one lucky prize:
Isolation, isolation, isolation...."
- Joy Division
'Isolation'
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I took this earlier today when Sean Connery appeared at the 60th Edinburgh Film Festival (he is patron of the festival).
At earlier sessions I've attended (Sigourney Weaver, Charlize Theron and Steven Soderbergh) things have been fairly relaxed photographically (as long as you weren't using flash). Today we were being told before the session that no photography would be allowed. Immediately before the session we were advised that there would be an opportunity, but not during the interview. At the end of the session, the press photographers were allowed in to photograph Sean Connery receiving a BAFTA award. I took that as my cue.
I'm quite happy with this, considering it was one of a number I grabbed in about two minutes...but the light behind him was overpowering and far too close .
Seen here in turning into Schwabisch Gmund Way Barnsley. With an all over ad for Cineworld Barnsley at the Glass Works.
I have just seen the film Central Intelligence. It's pretty silly but quite amusing. Three stars - just
Critics Consensus: Kevin Hart and Dwayne Johnson make for well-matched comic foils, helping Central Intelligence overcome a script that coasts on their considerable chemistry.
It's here! The Birmingham Wheel and Ice Rink is back, alongside the German Market. I was off to Cineworld to watch the IMAX advance screening of Sully. Such a great film!
I got one of those Cineworld Unlimited cards: see as many films in a month as you like for £13.50.
This week I saw How to Train Your Dragon: visually stunning, a few good laughs and a touching story of friendship with a healthy anti-war message for kids thrown in. If you have kids, take them to see it: they'll love it, and you probably will too.
Later in the week I went to see I Am Love. It's not a film for everyone, and when the credits began to roll at the end, one man in the cinema, which can't have had more than 15 people in it, got up and strode out in what looked to me like disgust, but maybe he was in a hurry to be somewhere else. That aside, there was a palpable sense of "wtf was that?!" among most of the rest of the audience.
I loved loved loved it. Not much actually happens in terms of plot and action: it's a film about the dynamics of a wealthy dysfunctional family and the repressed passion of the matriarch, but where in a Hollywood film we'd be told and smacked over the head with what's happening in the minds of the characters, here we are given the surface and asked to read for ourselves what is really going on.
The story is important, but for me it was just the framework for an incredible sensory journey: I Am Love is so well shot - the most visually beautiful film I've seen since My Blueberry Nights, but where the latter's beauty lay for the most part in single images that are imprinted on my mind to this day - more photographic than anything else - I Am Love's beauty is one that really only film can convey - long, sweeping single shots and fast moving cuts - and the throbbing music of John Adams is the perfect accompaniment. During one extraordinary scene, my mouth was open in awe, which I didn't notice until my companion pushed my jaw closed.
This is not a film that most people will enjoy, but I think the trailer is enough to give you a sense of it: watch it (in HD) here.
Glasgow, 2010.
Another visit to Cineworld Crawley - I saw Youth, an odd film, rather a jumble but quite interesting.
The way out of screen 13 at Cineworld Crawley (It's the way in too :) I like the lights to show one the way.
I saw the film Eddie the Eagle. It's well worth going to see – funny and thought provoking.
Waiting for the film to start!!!
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Cineworld Glasgow Renfrew Street con sus 203 pies (62 metros) de altura, es actualmente el cine más alto del mundo.
Tiene 18 pantallas en 6 niveles, y puede acomodar a más de 4.300 personas. Su rasgo más distintivo es el enorme muro cortina de vidrio de la cara oriental que alberga una serie de escaleras mecánicas que se cruzan y encienden de color azul neón durante las horas de oscuridad .
On the opening night of the London Film Festival striking workers from five Picturehouse cinemas stage a demo in Leicester Square, demanding a London Living Wage from the highly profitable cinema chain. Other cinemas pay this independently set wage rate. Supported by their union, Bectu, and by many high profile figures, including Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell the staff demands include maternity pay, sick pay and the reinstatement of Union reps who were sacked earlier this year.
The very loud and very visible demo was later joined by the Precarious Workers Mobile - a three-wheel car with sound system - which lead them on a merry tour of the West End, including some of the cinemas involved in the dispute.
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The Our Daily Challenge group has chosen Cinema Paradiso as the topic for today. Naturally, no films have been shown at my local cinema for many months.
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We have a smaller car park to one side of the huge Asda shoppers car park which was used for customers of Cineworld. It has ‘temporarily’ closed so the youngsters have taken over the space for skateboarding, skating and cycling. Its good to see they’re all wearing their masks which look perfectly in tune with their gear ;-))
Aberdeen Beach and Queens Links is located in Aberdeen, Scotland. The beach itself is famous for its golden sand and its long curved length between the harbour and the River Don's mouth.
The beach suffers from significant erosion of the sand so there are distinctive groyne or walls, to help keep the sand in place. The beach is popular with walkers, surfers and windsurfers.
Recently in an expensive million pound operation, sand was taken by ship from further down the coast to the south of Aberdeen and sprayed on the beach to replace some of the lost sand. Rocks were then placed in a v-shape formation to try to prevent erosion, much like the groyne.
The beach has a popular amusement area along the famous Beach Esplanade where there are restaurants and the city's amusement park Codonas.
There is also a 9 screen Cineworld multiplex cinema located next to the restaurants and Codonas.
The actual park area is called Queens Links and takes the form of a large grassy area parallel to the beach. It is popular with many people and often kite-boarders can be seen taking advantage of the strong sea winds. There is a public golf course, the Kings Links.
There is a city council recreation site, the Beach Leisure Centre with a swimming pool, ice rink and indoor sports hall.
I was at the cinema in Crawley yesterday evening and as I left I saw that the Starbucks café was closed. I liked the look of the stacked chairs.
(I saw The Favourite about the court of Queen Anne, not a great film but worth seeing. 5/7)
I've just been to see the film C S Lewis: The Most Reluctant Convert at Cineworld in Crawley – it's well done.
In Round 114 of the All New Scavenger Hunt, I have chosen item 2 : Signage
Temporarily Closed due to coronavirus pandemic
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'm at Cineworld in Crawley, I'm watching a Pakistani film Aar Paar. Despite a running time of only 114 minutes it has, in common with most Indian & Pakistani films, an interval halfway through. This showed me that only one other person was in the auditorium. The dialogue is in Urdu, Punjabi and English with English subtitles. There is one violent scene, which is probably why it received an 18 category and may have deterred others from coming to see it.
Nice to be able to return to the cinema after so many months - I'm a huge cinephile and never gone that long without watching a film in the cinema (watched plenty at home, but the experience is not the same). Cinema had good Covid saftey protocols in place so it felt pretty organised and safe (in fact felt safer than recent train trip where covidiots just ignored the rules on public transport!). Quick snaps with the phone before the programme started.
Workers from four Picturehouse cinemas - Brixton's Ritzy & the Hackney, Central and Crouch End Picturehouses - stage a strike and rally in Leicester Square, London, as part of their campaign for fair conditions, union recognition and a London Living Wage. Despite widespread support from the public, high profile film and TV personalities, and the London Mayor, Picturehouse (and parent company Cineworld) are currently refusing to negotiate with the striking staff.
The rally was followed by a procession around the many cinemas in London's West End that are owned by Cineworld, and they were later joined in solidarity by Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell outside the Empire, Leicester Square, itself recently purchased by Cineworld.
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The Fountain bar, just across from the large Cineworld cinema on Dundee Terrace. Many years ago this was such a rough bar the locals referred to it as "the Vietnam". Several years ago it was totally revamped and much nicer, then went downhill a bit again.
Then in the last couple of years it was totally transformed into this very friendly and welcoming pub/restaurant, decent real ales and food, as good for a couple of pints as it is for families to go for an after movie dinner, and it's also a dog-friendly pub, so been in several times with chum and his hounds. Few quick shot on the walk home from work one night (no, I didn't go in that time, was certainly tempted tho, doesn't it look especially cosy at night?)