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18-wheel cinema from Scotland to Afghanistan

If you can’t get people to the cinema, bring the cinema to the people. More specifically, wheel the cinema to where people are, however remote and inhospitable the region. That is how the Screen Machine Mobile Cinema has come about: It consists of an articulated unit, the trailer of which expa…

The best ever eats on the big screen

Forget the stale popcorn and overpriced soda at the concessions counter for a while and feast instead on this article from UK’s the Guardian on food portrayed on the big screen: What is the most famous food scene in all cinema? Could it be Samuel L Jackson interrogating the men he’s been…

Pavarotti lives on – on the cinema screen

The big man of opera is getting a fitting tribute at a small cinema in the Austrian capital. Between October 4th and 28th you can catch a big screen tribute to the recently deceased Italian tenor in what is described as ‘Opern-Kino: In memoriam Pavarotti‘ (or Opera Cinema: Remembering Pa…

Urban drive-in cinema; room for one car

OK, so it may not be a real drive-in cinema, but this fake drive in cinema in New York, complete with a vintage car, gets our love an admiration. At the price of $75 for six people, it is definitely something I would try if I was in the Big Apple. From the Grand OpeningRead More

Never coming to a big screen near you

A fascinating look in this New York Times magazine article (‘The New B-Movie‘) about straight-to-DVD films trying to ride on the coat tails of big Hollywood releases – and succeeding! The IMBD page for ‘Transmorphers’ is hilarious. Plot keywords are: ‘Lesbian / Ma…

Plug for Swedish exploitation weekend

A small but shameless plug for an event I helped organise. Next weekend London’s ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art) is showing a four day retrospective of the best Swedish exploitation films from the 1960s and 1970s. While everyone likes to associate Swedish cinema with Ingmar Bergman, a film…

Finally, an anti-piracy video with bite

Small fire in UK cinema – no one died

A small fire in Showcase cinema near Bristol, UK broke out this afternoon. The BBC has a short article about it: About 50 people were in the Showcase Cinema in the St Phillips area, near the A4, when the fire began on Wednesday afternoon. No injuries have been reported. The fire broke out in aRead M…

Garbage in cinema – charges filed at last

Someone has finally been charged for filling cinemas with pure garbage. No, it’s not the distributors filling the multiplexes with the usual post-summer derivative horror film re-makes. I this case it was a group of Australian teenagers rampaging in their local multiplex. This from an article…

Most trivial cinema-related story ever?

A woman in Scotland had her mobile phone stolen as she was going to a cinema in Edinburgh. And, erh, that’s it. But the BBC has seen fit to publish a new story about it on its online site. Either an example of Wired’s hyperlocal trend (or did I miss something there?) or that theRead More