Silver Screen Cities: Celebrating city cinema-going

Celebrating City Cinema-Going

‘Carol’, Odyssey Cinema, St Albans

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The train from London’s St Pancras station took me to St Albans to see director Todd Haynes’ film Carol at the Odyssey cinema. When the train arrived at St Albans City station I had a quick look at the well-preserved old railway signal box that still stands beyond the end of platform 4, before heading into […]

‘Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict’, ICA, London

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‘Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict’ was showing at various London cinemas. But there was one reason I chose the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts) to watch it at – the ICA website stated that their film showings are now ad-free. There are trailers for other films shown, but none of the annoying ads that spew forth endlessly at […]

‘Guys and Dolls’, Regent Street Cinema, London

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Around midday on this grey November day I took the Northern Line train to Tottenham Court Road station, pausing on the platform there for a moment to admire the Paolozzi mosaics which brighten up what would otherwise be a drab environment. Outside there was a sudden downpour as I was walking along Oxford Street, so sudden […]

Nagisa Oshima triple bill, Shin-Bungeiza Cinema Ikebukuro, Tokyo

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Haruki Murakami may not have received this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature, but he will probably win it before too long. It would be a shame, though, if Haruki Murakami becomes to Japanese literature what sushi is to Japanese cuisine – the single dominant icon that obscures all the other good stuff. Also worthy of […]

‘The Window’, Cinemateca Portuguesa, Lisbon

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Cinemateca Portuguesa, located on Rua Barata Salgueiro in the centre of Lisbon, is a wonderful place for cinephiles. Great posters and marvellous black and white stills from the 1940s adorn the foyer walls: Bogart in All Through the Night, Howard Hawks’ The Thing from Another World!, Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine in Rebecca, Spencer Tracy […]