Housed in the restored Passmore Edwards Old Library on Acton High Street, ActOne is an independent, non-profit community cinema run by a Community Interest Company. The historic building, gifted to the people of Acton and left empty for years, was brought back into use by a group of residents who campaigned to keep developers out and return it to its original role as a community hub. After the lease was signed with the London Borough of Ealing in 2021, a team of more than a hundred volunteers c.....
San Jose's last drive-in still lights up six screens every night of the year. The Capitol Drive-In at 3630 Hillcap Avenue opened on 25 May 1971 with four screens and a free inaugural program of The Owl and the Pussycat, 101 Dalmatians, Valdez Is Coming and Zeppelin - one of six drive-ins then operating in San Jose, designed by Vincent G. Raney, the architect behind much of the Century Theatres circuit. Later expanded to six screens, it outlived every competitor: at the industry's 1960s peak Cali.....
Around 1,100 different film titles cross the screens here every year - a number no ordinary cinema comes close to. Cinemateket, the Danish Film Institute's cinematheque in the Filmhuset at Gothersgade 55, is to film what the library is to books: a place where film history is kept alive on the big screen for researchers, filmmakers and the public, programming roughly 40 screenings a week of classics, restorations, retrospectives and festival titles that would otherwise never reach a Danish screen.....
Los Angeles watches movies with its buried movie stars, and it started with eighty people and a Hitchcock print. Cinespia at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, 6000 Santa Monica Boulevard, held its first screening on 20 July 2002, when 27-year-old film-club founder John Wyatt projected Strangers on a Train against the west wall of the Cathedral Mausoleum - the building holding Rudolph Valentino's crypt - for members of his Italian film club and word-of-mouth guests. Wyatt had spotted the potential of t.....
On the Town Hall Square, beside the Palace Hotel and the Lur Blowers statue, a single doorway leads down to one of Copenhagen's best-loved small cinemas. Gloria Biograf occupies what was Screen D of the old ABCinema complex, opened in the mid-1970s as the fourth screen of the Nordisk Film house; when ABCinema closed on 31 March 1989 the D-hall survived on special screenings under the name Biffen, before reopening on 3 March 1995 as the independent Gloria. The programme is hand-picked art cinema.....
Union disputes got the building bombed in 1931 - Chicago's theatre wars spared no one, not even a neighbourhood movie house two years old. The Music Box Theatre, at 3733 N Southport Avenue in Lakeview, opened on 22 August 1929 and has run continuously as an art-house cinema since 1983. The house is an atmospheric gem: the 750-seat main auditorium wears a twinkling star-covered ceiling and drifting projected clouds above Italianate-meets-Moorish decor, fronted by a neon marquee whose eight lette.....
Run entirely by volunteers from a parish hall in the County Down seaside town of Newcastle, the Newcastle Community Cinema is a non-profit cinema and community hub based in St Mary's Hall on Main Street. Founded in 2009 to promote the appreciation of film, it offers an old-fashioned, sociable alternative to the multiplex, complete with a traditional popcorn machine and a well-stocked bar at every show. The cinema screens a varied monthly programme aimed at all tastes, from family films to artho.....