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
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 […]
‘Stan & Ollie’, Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA), Dundee
I was really looking forward to ‘Stan & Ollie’. I love the old Laurel and Hardy films, like the hysterically funny ‘A Chump at Oxford’ (1940). Judging from the trailer, ‘Stan & Ollie’ looked like it would be a fitting tribute. Today’s opening day for the film arrived with it accompanied by lavish praise from […]
‘Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda’, Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA)
We went for a pre-film beer at the Phoenix bar, a Dundee institution that looks a bit grim and forbidding from the outside but once you’re inside it’s welcoming and characterful. Perched on bar stools we ordered a couple of pints of Deuchar’s IPA which slipped down very smoothly. The DCA cinema is just across […]
‘Vertigo’, Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA)
Hot and steamy’s not the kind of weather you typically associate with the east coast of Scotland, but that’s what it was like this afternoon as I headed along Perth Road to Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA) to see Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Vertigo’ in a new 4K print released to mark the film’s 60th anniversary. ‘Vertigo’ is […]