Silver Screen Cities: Celebrating city cinema-going

Celebrating City Cinema-Going

‘Limbo’, DCA, Dundee

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Great to be back in a cinema watching a film on the big screen for the first time since lockdown 18 months ago. And tonight’s film, ‘Limbo’, directed by Ben Sharrock, was hugely enjoyable. The showing was in Screen 1 at DCA. Social distancing was still in place so the auditorium wasn’t full but that […]

‘Parasite’, Filmhouse, Edinburgh

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The snow started falling as we walked along Lothian Road towards Princes Street. Within minutes the snow stopped and there was a bright blue sky. Then it got grey and wet and windy again; a fickle February day. The wind was beginning to bite as we headed up Cockburn Street in Edinburgh’s imposing Old Town […]

‘Uncut Gems’, DCA, Dundee

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After the first fifteen minutes or so of ‘Uncut Gems’ I was thinking this is great but there’s no way that directors Benny and Josh Safdie can keep up the film’s manic intensity and tempo. But they do. The invasive music is set at a higher than normal level in relation to the spoken dialogue, […]

‘Mrs Lowry & Son’, DCA, Dundee

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Before the film we dropped into Tailend restaurant and enjoyed a meal of sea bream and Thai seafood curry, washed down with a pint of Eden Mill Shipwreck IPA and a gin cocktail. This basement restaurant is a welcome sanctuary on a dreich day like today. The food was great, especially the Thai seafood curry […]

‘Pain and Glory’, DCA, Dundee

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I got to DCA in time to get an IPA from the bar to take into the film. The trailers and the crass pre-film ads seemed to pass by quicker than usual. It was a Friday afternoon showing of Pedro Almodovar’s ‘Pain and Glory’, starring Antonio Banderas as world-weary film director Salvador Mallo. The character’s […]

‘Prophecy’, DCA, Dundee

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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 […]