Credit: Etienne Gilfillan
Credit: Etienne Gilfillan
Credit: Etienne Gilfillan
Credit: Etienne Gilfillan
Credit: Etienne Gilfillan
Credit: Etienne Gilfillan
Credit: Etienne Gilfillan
Credit: Etienne Gilfillan
Deptford Cinema
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Credit: Etienne Gilfillan
Credit: Etienne Gilfillan
Credit: Etienne Gilfillan
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Curzon Bloomsbury
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Credit: Etienne Gilfillan
Credit: Etienne Gilfillan
Close Up Cinema
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Credit: A frame from Edward Lawrenson’s video report Celluloid Haven: Close Up Cinema
Credit: A frame from Edward Lawrenson’s video report Celluloid Haven: Close Up Cinema
Credit: A frame from Edward Lawrenson’s video report Celluloid Haven: Close Up Cinema
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Regent Street Cinema
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Credit: Etienne Gilfillan
Credit: Etienne Gilfillan
Credit: Etienne Gilfillan
Credit: Etienne Gilfillan
Credit: Etienne Gilfillan
Credit: Etienne Gilfillan
Read Edward Lawrenson’s reports on five new London cinemas in the August 2015 issue of Sight & Sound
New cinemas, mostly of the swish, upmarket and upgraded variety, began to appear across London a few years back and in the last 18 months this trend has accelerated to such an extent that a new standard of comfort and immersion has become the norm. Is this enriched yet often expensive experience the only way to go? Edward Lawrenson reports on five new London cinemas, which set out to unpick the issues behind this welcome building boom.
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Manchester’s new £25 million art, theatre and film complex, HOME, with its five cinema screens, shows London is not the only UK city to benefit from the recent surge of openings. By Kevin Sampson.
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Opening nights: new British cinemas
Videos and photography of the new batch of picturehouses that have sprung up around the capital this year.
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Sight & Sound: the August 2015 issue
Pixar’s Inside Out, Song of the Sea and Halas & Batchelor in our special animation issue, plus Eden, Dear White People, new London...
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