cinema

The Prince Charles cinema in Leicester Square has been saved from potential closure after signing a 25-year lease.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

Skydance-owned Paramount Pictures has taken over the lease for the Bay Theater in Pacific Palisades and intends to reopen the cinema, which has been closed since the January 2025 Palisades fire last year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

The Criterion Collection’s mammoth set of the director’s 13 features captures a master of American cinema and his singular stories of men caught up in systems bigger than themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

But she lives on in cinema, thanks to the 1985 landmark queer Mexican film “Doña Herlinda and Her Son,” by director Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, where she played the titular Doña Herlinda.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

It was after our first trip to the cinema, our first real trip, when I didn't feel the need to make Elsbeth chaperone.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

"It is a completely different experience," said photographer Hemant Chaturvedi, 58, who has documented what remains during a seven-year odyssey, photographing 1,350 single-screen cinemas across 1,000 towns.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

The peeling facades, faded signs and cavernous auditoriums of such cinemas are remnants of a time when going to the movies was itself the main event.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

India's single-screen cinemas have been steadily squeezed by multiplexes, streaming, rising property costs and the expense of maintaining ageing buildings and equipment.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

Nine years later, the film - The Lost Children of Tuam - is now in cinemas.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

In smaller cinemas a pianist or organist would provide a similarly live accompaniment; Russian classical composer Dmitri Shostakovich supported himself in Leningrad in 1924-5 by doing just that.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall