The Last Projectionist
DOCUMENTARIES / EUROPEAN PREMIERE
Director: Thomas Lawes.
United Kingdom, 2011.
83 mins. English
Q&A session with Director Thomas (Tom) Lawes
Thomas Lawes' nostalgic documentary celebrates independent cinema tradition, showing how its renaissance is now a worldwide phenomenon. Lawes interviews former staff, industry experts and customers, including proud projectionist John Brockington, who has been a stalwart of Birmingham?s projection boxes since 1955. Old picture palaces all over the UK are facing extinction, and THE LAST PROJECTIONIST focuses on Birmingham?s Electric, the oldest working cinema in Britain, which saw out the silents over a hundred years ago, had a stint as a wartime news outlet during WWII and spent the 70s and 80s catering to connoisseurs of adult film. These venerable vintage cinemas offer contemporary film lovers an old school alternative to the mainstream, but does the switch from 35mm to digital mark the end of an era for projectionists?
Thomas Lawes' nostalgic documentary celebrates independent cinema tradition, showing how its renaissance is now a worldwide phenomenon. Lawes interviews former staff, industry experts and customers, including proud projectionist John Brockington, who has been a stalwart of Birmingham?s projection boxes since 1955. Old picture palaces all over the UK are facing extinction, and THE LAST PROJECTIONIST focuses on Birmingham?s Electric, the oldest working cinema in Britain, which saw out the silents over a hundred years ago, had a stint as a wartime news outlet during WWII and spent the 70s and 80s catering to connoisseurs of adult film. These venerable vintage cinemas offer contemporary film lovers an old school alternative to the mainstream, but does the switch from 35mm to digital mark the end of an era for projectionists?
Screenings
Arts Picturehouse
Sunday 18 September, 3:30PM
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The Last Projectionist by Will
21 Sep 2011
The Last Projectionist.
A man with a passion and a theatre of dreams....
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