Local fans of the cinema got wind of something was afoot and worried that closure or god forbid a change of function could be on the cards, they marshaled the troops and waved their placards in support of the only "cultural" venue the town has access to! (Top pic)
Although the local council has stated that they have no plans to close the cinema, (only a year or so after it opened) I have a sneaking worry that things are not looking too good for this flagship picture house!
To get more "bums of seats" I suspect the small "arthouse" films will be dropped for more populist mainstream movies which would be a shame ( for me and ex bookshop owner Victor Hallet- the two regular arthouse movie watchers along the coast)..but I will support any initiative that keeps a cinema going just a mile and a half from Trelawnyd!
Tonight, we made the effort to support the Scala in the only real effective way I can think of, we put our arses well and truly on their cinema seats and went to see the Brit Com Made in Dagenham.
The movie was ok...no big shakes but a pleasant enough "dramatization" of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination......Filled to the gunnell with a horde of nice Brit thesps (Geraldine James, Bob Hoskins,Rosamund Pike,) this film is worth seeing just for them AND the bravura performance by Miranda Richardson who plays a somewhat feisty Barbara Castle the Government Employment Minister
7/10
Oh John, I know what you mean. I grew up in a small town and we had one theater--not an artsy one but it was all we had. It did close and it was terrible. I love artsy theaters here in the US--and they do really well in some more cultured areas and bomb in others. Keep going and keep them busy-that will keep their doors open.
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as they say another bites the dust.....I hope they don't close it though.
ReplyDeleteGill in Canada
That would be a shame, our local theater was closed before we moved here, so you have to drive to the bigger towns if you want to see a movie.
ReplyDeleteYikes. This kind of thing is happening all over. Very worrisome. I hope you have a groundswell of support that helps keep it open. Good on you guys for going to the show!
ReplyDeleteDia
Poor little cinemas - constantly battling it out with the big Hollywood distributors. Same with the British film indusdtry in general, but that seems to be getting a bit better. P.S. Did you mean ".. bums ON seats..." when you said 'bums of'? Please don't correct it, I like it just the way it is.
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