formerly Mad Cornish Projectionist.
I had my first pash at Parramatta’s picture palace, the Roxy Cinema. I can’t remember the film but I do remember the frisson of excitement I felt every time I walked up the elegant stairs of this Spanish Mission-style theatre … Continued
This year’s San Sebastian Film Festival proved something of a safe space for cinema’s miscreants. The festival is one of the biggest fixtures on the cinema calendar and, like Venice, defied COVID-19 with a full program of real films in … Continued
Palace Cinemas has become the first movie chain to announce a reopening date as coronavirus restrictions are eased, with social distancing likely to keep at least 65 per cent of seats vacant initially. The operator of 20 art-house cinemas, some … Continued
Cinema operators are divided over re-opening on June 22, with some spying an opportunity and others fearing the 50-person-per-theatre restriction and limited supply of new movies makes the prospect marginal at best. Read more: https://www.smh.com.au/culture/movies/victorian-cinema-operators-divided-about-re-opening-on-june-22-20200525-p54w78.html
For the first time, I’m living in a city without cinemas. Also without theatres, concert halls, stadiums, galleries, nightclubs and churches, at least for most practical purposes. But it’s the cinemas I mourn most, and not just because until the … Continued
For the latest hit film to come out of Australia, the gripping psychological drama The Invisible Man, it was crucial that becoming ‘unseeable’ seemed scientifically plausible. Audiences had to believe that a controlling tech billionaire terrorising his former partner had developed … Continued