At my local Picture House...

[Plynkes]

One of the few remaining old-fashioned, non-multiplex cinemas in my area, thanks to lottery funding, has been reborn in all its original 1930s glory, complete with lavish wall murals.

And look what they're showing tonight...

http://regaltenbury.co.uk/RegalCinemaTenbury.dll/WhatsOn?Programme=148800

I'm going. Deffo. Can't miss an opportunity to see this classic on the big screen.



"Your very good health. And down with Hitler."

[aircav]

Now that will be god, you lucky blighter 

[Helen]

Enjoy Dylan.

Cheers,

Helen

[Amalric]

Our local Grand Theater, the Orpheum, was restored awhile back and shows classic movies in the summer.
A few weeks back we caught Gone with the Wind on the big Screen.
Nothing quite like seeing movies that way.

[Plynkes]

Had a fantastic time. A bus load of re-enactor types turned up (in an old red bus) all dressed up in 40s garb. Some Home Guard and RAF types, ARP and a copper, plus civvies including some glamourous ladies, land girls, and a spiv. There was even a guy in a moth-eaten fur coat and battered straw boater pretending to be Bud Flanagan. They were all part of some 40s weekend on the Severn Valley Railway and had spotted that this film was on. It fitted their theme so they all came over mob-handed. Really added to the atmosphere and they were a nice bunch. One even was dressed up as a 40s usherette with ice cream and whatever.

And they have done a grand job restoring the place. Oozing 30s atmosphere, and gorgeous murals of what I guess is meant to be the southern Italian coast inside the theatre itself. I remember those years ago (I guess they date right back to the 30s), but they are in lovely nick now.


Best thing is, the Regal sells booze in the foyer and they let you take it into the film with you. That's what I call bloody civilised. Beat that if you can, Multiplex! (you cant)

[Plynkes]

By the way, the woman struggling with the bolt on her Lee Enfield in the trailer is a young Thora Hird! Patricia Hayes is in it too. 

[carlos marighela]

Excellent news and a cracker of a film. Very fortunate in Melbourne to still have quite a collection of original picture palaces still as going concerns even if it seems to be a perpetual struggle to keep the grander ones, like the Astor out of the hands of developers. Funny thing is we lost a lot in the 1960s and 70s with the advent of drive in cinemas. Now there's only one of those left.

[gringo]

on my list of funcky cinemas to visit/enjoy

regards
ged

www.gringo40s.com
www.gringo40s.blogspot.com
and 28mm ranges

[Gothic Line]

 Lucky!!!