There can’t be many people in the film business in London with more going on than Gerry Cottle Jr. Gerry’s the guy who founded Rooftop Film Club, which spawned the Drive-In Film Club. Which gave birth to the Underground Film Club. While also setting up a Rooftop Club in New York…. Basically, he’s been at […]
Read more "Gerry Cottle Jr talks about his Rooftop Film Club"1) Kino Pioneer 1909 Cinema, Szczecin, Poland In a particularly unpronounacable city, in a country full of particularly unpronouncable places, the perfectly pronounacble Kino Pionier may not look like anything special. But this independent in Poland’s 7th largest city should hold a special place in every film buffs heart. Opening as the catchily named “Helios […]
Read more "The World’s 6 Best Independent Cinemas"This article is a guest post by James Gibson. James has absolutely no qualification to write about film, scant interest in the medium and hadn’t been to the cinema for two years. Until now… I’m going to be up front about it: I have never really liked going to the cinema or, even, watching films in […]
Read more "Mad Max at the Ritzy made me fall for film"Popcorn and Projector has been stat-munching again in a quest to find out which European country goes to the cinema the most. Have a look at our handy interactive map below. https://magic.piktochart.com/embed/6321145-european-cinema
Read more "The country that goes to the cinema the most may surprise you"Are you the kind of person who watches 120 minutes of astronauts being chased through an abandoned spaceship, battling an apparently death at the hands of a face-hugging, shadow-dwelling, murderous alien monster and is left thinking ‘rubbish. that doesn’t seem very realistic at all’? If so, you might just be a terrible person in need of […]
Read more "Alien + Science + Laughs = #ScienceFliktion"On this site we like to deal in cinemas that are a bit unusual. We’ve had a great time at Hot Tub Cinema, Rooftop Film Club and the Drive-In Cinema, as well as the brilliant range of independent and pop-up cinemas around London. Many of these experiences stray far from the traditional cinema model, where […]
Read more "What is cinema? An academic’s view"Think most independent cinema exists in London? Is Manchester a mecca for all things indie? What’s the cinema scene like in Northern Ireland? Popcorn and Projector have been number crunching all weekend in an attempt to answer all these questions, and many more you probably haven’t asked. Using this list of independent’s in the UK we […]
Read more "Think independent cinema revolves around London? Think again"There’s something strangely rewarding about watching a film in the open air. It’s a rare treat in this country thanks to our reliably unreliable summer weather, but when it all comes together right, it’s a real joy. When we went for a night at the Rooftop Film Club, everything really came together right. We got […]
Read more "A night at the Rooftop Film Club"By Fiona Rentoul Piracy. It’s such a bad word in the arts community. So bad it’s almost taboo. It’s almost comparable to teen sex. If we don’t talk about it, it isn’t a problem. If we tell people to abstain, will they listen? And then, somehow, piracy will no longer be a problem? Wrong. It […]
Read more "Guest Post: A Look Into Movie Piracy"Paul Stanley has been a projectionist at the Phoenix Cinema in East Finchley since 1979. Yet in all that time the cinema, which now boasts Benedict Cumberbatch as a patron, hasn’t changed all that much. As Paul tells me, two sessions of construction work in 2000 & 2009 have helped it to grow alongside the […]
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