Another admirer for the Odeon, Leicester: after Christopher Biggins, also Leslie Phillips thinks it is his favourite cinema Leslie Phillips, what’s your favourite cinema? Actually I don’t have a regular or favourite cinema as such. But I do visit the London ones and particularly the flagship Odeon Leicester Square, which in fact I attend quite frequently. Rather […]
Holli Dempsey: “I love going to the cinema. But it’s too expensive”
Holli Dempsey’s favourite cinema is the Curzon Soho, London W1. She criticizes the increasing prices of tickets and snacks It’s still exciting to recall my first memories of cinema-going. My mother, brother and I would catch the bus to our local cinema, in a part of London that was once […]
John Torode and the Master… cinema Clapham Picturehouse, London
MasterChef judge & co-presenter John Torode elects the Clapham Picturehouse cinema, Southwest London, as his favourite «I am lucky that I live in Southwest London and have the great Clapham Picturehouse close by». John Torode has no doubt: that’s a really good cinema. «There’s always a great selection of films […]
Celebrity Kiki Dee: “I miss the Coronet cinema, London”
Kiki Dee’s favourite cinema is the Coronet, in Notting Hill, London. She used to go there with her best friend, to breathe its special atmosphere «My favourite cinema is the Coronet, Notting Hill – Kiki Dee says. – While I lived in London, I often attended it with Jenny, my friend […]
Jonathan King: “Love the atsmosphere at the Gate Cinema, in Notting Hill”
It looks like a proper old-fashioned theatre, and that’s why I like it. Jonathan King speaks about his passion for the Notting Hill Gate cinema Gate Cinema, Notting Hill Jonathan King: “I have two favourite cinemas, both of them in London. For convenience, there’s the 8-screen UCI in the Whiteley’s […]
Jess Conrad: “When I walked on my knee to enter the Brixton Ritzy cinema”
Now a famous actor, as a child Jess Conrad used to crawl in round by the side of the cashier of the Brixton Ritzy cinema My life was always in cinemas, never at school! I was lucky to grow up in Brixton with so many great cinemas around me. I recall […]
Julie Christie: “Going to my favourite cinema was an adventure”
We’ve asked Julie Christie what is her favourite cinema: for the world-wide actress, a good theatre has to be “anarchic and political” Electric [Cinema] in Notting Hill «It was always the Electric [Cinema] in Notting Hill in the old days. It offered a real cinema experience, so anarchic and political […]
Jimmy Osmond: “I finally fell in love with my wife in The Scera Theatre”
Jimmy Osmond is particularly fond of the Scera Theatre: that’s where he understood he wanted to marry his girlfriend Jimmy Osmond, what’s you favourite cinema? There is a little movie theater called The SCERA Theatre that I particularly liked. It’s out on South State Street in Orem, just south of […]
Billy Murray: “When the queue for the Odeon East Ham lasted one hour”
Actor Billy Murray remembers his childhood: as there wasn’t any tv, going to the cinema was necessary. And to enter the Odeon East Ham, you had to queue for more than one hour! «My local cinema was the former Odeon East Ham» Billy Murray says. Then he explains: «It was […]
Mark Mardell: “My favourite cinema is the Uci Sutton”
BBC Ten O’Clock News Chief Political Correspondent, Mark Mardell, loves the UCI Sutton, in Surrey. He likes going to his favourite cinema with his family Mark Mardell, what is your favourite cinema? As a youth, my favourite cinema was an old triple-screen affair just around the corner from where we […]