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Old 07-05-2008, 03:11 PM   #16
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For those of you who enjoy being in a large cinema alone I would suggest a visit to "The Curzon", Mayfair on Curzon Street W1, on any afternoon of the week. Its one of the largest screens in London and if you enjoy foreign language art films this is the place to be.....zzzzzzzzzzzzz.
The Apollo West End in Regent Street has a nice big screen. It doesn't look like much from the outside. But inside, and downstairs, it's been refurbished and is very nice.



I saw a preview of The Departed there on a weekday morning and after all of that it was very strange to come out into the daylight of a normal day in London

It wasn't exactly empty but there weren't many of us there as it was invitation only

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There was a screening of a pretty obscure but wonderful Canadian silent western starring the fantastic Nell Shipman, The Grub Stake, at pordenone this year. It clashed with something more famous but which I had already seen, and Nell had been on before, so there were just three of us in the small venue. I positioned myself a few rows in front of the others, dead centre, just four rows back from the front, ahead even of the pianist, the wonderful Phil Carli. For an hour and a half, I was able to live my lottery-win dream....my own personal silent cinema, with my personal live genius on piano.....
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I was watching "Downfall" in a Sydney cinema on a weekday morning.

watched the whole film on my own (or so i thought), got up to leave

& this old bloke in a trenchcoat appeared from the back row. Spooky!!
..........He didn't have a little black moustache.........did he?

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I had the whole cinema to myself watching The Blair Witch Project.........or so I thought.

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Quite often.

I usualy go to see "The Monday Classic" at my local cinema, they are not usually classics as such often they we shown a month earlier but on occasions they do show a real classic. A few months ago it was "The Dambusters". I sat through it totally undisturbed, I had that screen all to myself and that's not the first time.

Yet another benefi of being retired, I highly recommend it.
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Yet another benefi of being retired, I highly recommend it.
If my numbers come out tonight,Frank,I will be retiring.
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