Media | Cinema | Projection
When movie theatres reopened after lockdown in New South Wales last year, I was apprehensive. Though I wanted to support my favourite cinemas and mainline choc tops, it was quite some time before I braved one. But when the virus … Continued
An intoxicating feast awaits as the ICA and BFI join forces in a retrospective of the Hong Kong auteur’s work, complete with seven new 4K restorations. Source: https://www.theguardian.com/film/
Owners and staff at entertainment venues are ‘very enthusiastic’ to reopen but social distancing presents challenges. National cabinet has agreed to replace limits on the number of attendees at non-essential indoor gatherings with the “one person per four square metres” rule, … Continued
Sonia Friedman calls for rescue package to save more than 1,000 theatres from permanent closure. British theatre is on the “brink of total collapse”, according to one of the industry’s most successful producers, who has called for an urgent government … Continued
Robert Pattinson’s The Batman is back in action — among many other United Kingdom-based productions. According to The Guardian, the UK government and health bodies signed off on new coronavirus safety rules to get filming going again, and as early as July. The … Continued
Sign-off on Covid-19 guidelines reboots UK’s £3.6bn film and high-end television industry. Producers of Hollywood blockbusters including The Batman and the next Fantastic Beasts film have been given the go-ahead to restart filming after the UK government and health bodies … Continued
Property magnate Charles Cohen’s €8m renovation of La Pagode branded a ‘massacre’ When the property magnate Charles Cohen bought the La Pagode cinema in Paris, complete with its celebrated Japanese garden, three years ago, he announced that as an American … Continued
Adam Sandler is a gem of jewellery dealer, Dev Patel is inspired casting as David Copperfield, while Keira Knightley disrupts the 1970 Miss World contest in these top picks – listed in date order – from the UK release schedule … Continued
From transformative nights in the grubbiest of fleapits to spellbinding screenings under the stars, film-makers and critics recall the communal thrill of going to the cinema Source: ‘I barely breathed’: Tilda Swinton, Emma Thompson, Steve McQueen and more on their … Continued
Perhaps it’s because of the way that time seems confoundingly elastic during lockdown, but the 14-hour running time of Mark Cousins’s epic journey through the cinema of women no longer seems quite so daunting. A long-haul voyage of discovery that spans 13 … Continued