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Collection of personal reflections on the experience of watching films

Cinemas and cities are inextricably linked. Not only did the cinema start and evolve in cities but cinema and film remain an integral part of city life, living, leisure and learning. Bristol is a city where cinema remains particularly prominent. It has an important history of film making (this year Bristol is marking the centenary […]

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Celebration of Bristol cinema-going and film-making receives National Lottery Heritage Fund support.

Industry was prospering, the rights and conditions of workers were slowly improving, thanks to increasing unionisation, and were already far better than those endured a generation earlier. There was leisure time, most people had some money with which to enjoy it, and peace, relatively (there was the usual fighting associated with the business of Empire, […]

(Angela Carter ‘The Merchant of Shadows’) For me cinema-going – when it is done properly – is a quasi-religious ritual: that coming together with strangers to share a sense of communitas. Sometimes I think the only reason I set up the Cary Comes Home Festival is so I could see Cary Grant’s films on the […]

Instead, films played a big part in fuelling my childhood imagination and games. I’d re-enact scenes from films either by myself or with my friends, as if they were real life, and adding my own twists and ideas. I went on to study Costume for the Stage and Screen, and European Cinema, but found my […]

Independent cinemas and film exhibitors have stared the realities of the pandemic in the face, with venues closed during lockdowns, a constantly changing calendar of new-release films, and the very fabric of cinema, of being able to come together, becoming impossible. But even though the light of the projector might be dimmed momentarily, the light […]