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Abandoned Matinees VI: The Regal Cinema, Camberley, U.K.
Yes, it’s back. Another depressing & disheartening blog on a dying, abandoned cinema somewhere on planet Earth… with fascinating images by various photographers and urban explorers…
Abandoned Matinees V: R.I.P. The York Theatre
Editor’s Blog on the York Theatre or York Cinemas, converted to an event theatre in 2002, and soon to be razed and replaced by The Madison twin condo towers…
Abandoned Matinees IV: The Allenby Cinema (Toronto)
Torontoist just published a short piece on the Allenby Cinema (formerly the Roxy), recently transformed from a shuttered rep cinema by Greenwood and Danforth to a convenience store adjoining a gas station. The cinema’s marquee has been ‘preserved’ due to its historical significance, and Tim Horton’s is said to move into the street front section, […]
Abandoned Matinees III: The Cinema Theater Varia (Belgium)
The third installment highlights Belgium’s Cinema Theater Varia, built between 1910-1913, and derelict for more than 20 years…
Abandoned Matinees II
The second installment highlights the work of photographer Yves Marchand and Romain Mefre…
Abandoned Matinees
Editor’s Blog on lost, forgotten, and abandoned movie theatres, as documented through online photographers…
Detroit on the Big Screen
Editorial blather plus Reviews of Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady’s Detropia (2012), which screened at HotDocs this year and finally gets its theatrical run in Toronto at The Bloor alongside a related doc by Julien Temple, Requiem for Detroit? (2010), made for the BBC.
Images of Colonial Foolishness
Editor’s Blog on Building Big in rustic areas during the colonial boom, with plenty of image and film links for Beira’s once majestic Grande Hotel, plus links to Bokor Hill Palace, a similar effort in European ego set in Cambodia…
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