Silver Screen Cities: Celebrating city cinema-going

Celebrating City Cinema-Going

‘Uncut Gems’, DCA, Dundee

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After the first fifteen minutes or so of ‘Uncut Gems’ I was thinking this is great but there’s no way that directors Benny and Josh Safdie can keep up the film’s manic intensity and tempo. But they do. The invasive music is set at a higher than normal level in relation to the spoken dialogue, […]

‘Mrs Lowry & Son’, DCA, Dundee

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Before the film we dropped into Tailend restaurant and enjoyed a meal of sea bream and Thai seafood curry, washed down with a pint of Eden Mill Shipwreck IPA and a gin cocktail. This basement restaurant is a welcome sanctuary on a dreich day like today. The food was great, especially the Thai seafood curry […]

‘Pain and Glory’, DCA, Dundee

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I got to DCA in time to get an IPA from the bar to take into the film. The trailers and the crass pre-film ads seemed to pass by quicker than usual. It was a Friday afternoon showing of Pedro Almodovar’s ‘Pain and Glory’, starring Antonio Banderas as world-weary film director Salvador Mallo. The character’s […]

‘Prophecy’, DCA, Dundee

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I just finished reading ‘The Big Picture – Cinemas of Dundee’ by Jack Searle and Craig Muir, published by Dundee Civic Trust, with a Foreword by proud Dundonian, the acclaimed actor Brian Cox. This book is a gem. It brings to life the whole cinema-going experience in Dundee from the earliest days of silent film […]

‘Vita & Virginia’, DCA, Dundee

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I doubt that many in this Saturday afternoon’s audience for ‘Vita & Virginia’ would be interested in going to see ‘The Fast and the Furious’, despite Vin Diesel’s exhortations to do so in an ad that preceded today’s showing of the Vita Sackville-West/Virginia Woolf film. Thankfully the pre-film ads and trailers didn’t seem to go […]

‘Can You Ever Forgive Me?’, Cinema Vendôme, Brussels, Belgium

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Tucked away on Rue Keyenveld in the Ixelles area of Brussels, off the beaten track for tourists, and neighbouring the house where Audrey Hepburn was born, Les Brassins restaurant was a good choice for lunch this sunny mid-February Saturday. We lingered in Les Brassins for over three hours, enjoying the hearty unpretentious food and superb […]