Silver Screen Cities: Celebrating city cinema-going

Celebrating City Cinema-Going

‘Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict’, ICA, London

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‘Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict’ was showing at various London cinemas. But there was one reason I chose the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts) to watch it at – the ICA website stated that their film showings are now ad-free. There are trailers for other films shown, but none of the annoying ads that spew forth endlessly at […]

‘Guys and Dolls’, Regent Street Cinema, London

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Around midday on this grey November day I took the Northern Line train to Tottenham Court Road station, pausing on the platform there for a moment to admire the Paolozzi mosaics which brighten up what would otherwise be a drab environment. Outside there was a sudden downpour as I was walking along Oxford Street, so sudden […]

Nagisa Oshima triple bill, Shin-Bungeiza Cinema Ikebukuro, Tokyo

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Haruki Murakami may not have received this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature, but he will probably win it before too long. It would be a shame, though, if Haruki Murakami becomes to Japanese literature what sushi is to Japanese cuisine – the single dominant icon that obscures all the other good stuff. Also worthy of […]

‘The Window’, Cinemateca Portuguesa, Lisbon

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Cinemateca Portuguesa, located on Rua Barata Salgueiro in the centre of Lisbon, is a wonderful place for cinephiles. Great posters and marvellous black and white stills from the 1940s adorn the foyer walls: Bogart in All Through the Night, Howard Hawks’ The Thing from Another World!, Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine in Rebecca, Spencer Tracy […]