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Small screens, full rooms: the neighbourhood cinema is winning
While multiplexes cut screenings, single-screen cinemas with eighty seats are selling out on weeknights.
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Cinema
Screens big and small, and the dark rooms around them.
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Seat 23: one film, seven nights in a row
Our critic watched the same film every night for a week, from the same seat. Here is what changed (mostly the critic).
Feature
The last projectionists still threading 35mm
Film prints are heavy, fragile and expensive. A handful of projectionists refuse to let them go.