Memorable cinema experiences

[hippogriff]

Sometime in the early 1970's on the South Bank, Beau Geste (1926) accompanied by a live orchestra

 

[maomao]

When that cinema in Camden was squatted in the early 90s and there used to be great parties. One night me and my mate turned up with weed and acid but there was no party, they showed a Tom Waits film and some other stuff. Best night at the cinema ever.

 

[surreybrowncap]

Sometime in the early 1970's on the South Bank, Beau Geste (1926) accompanied by a live orchestra

I usually just went with a girlfriend or on my own...

 

[maomao]

Also, seeing Reservoir Dogs the week it came out. Me and my mate pissed ourselves laughing throughout but his girlfriend (who years later turned out to be a wrong'un) got really snooty and pissed off with us for 'messing about' cause it was a srs art film.

 

[AverageJoe]

Saw Edward Scissors hands and during the relevant scenes the cinema paused the film and gave out small food samples that matched the scene.

Wut? Like hair and hedge clippings?

 

[krtek a houby]

Mississippi Burning, 89 in Streatham. Electric atmosphere, strong responses from the black members of the audience.

If you seen it, you know why.

 

[Raheem]

I was in the Barnet Odeon once and I got hit by a prawn.

Were you stealing its popcorn?

 

[DaveCinzano]

My first ever cinema experience on my own. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. Small screen at The Cornerhouse. Audience consisted of grubby looking men in big coats carrying shopping bags.

And now to the Young Folk of Today, you are the grubby looking man in a big coat carrying shopping bags

 

[DaveCinzano]

I remember watching starship troopers when it came out, I was an unsophisticated 15 year old...

Plus ça change

...so the fascism thing passed me completely by

TBF the same for me except I was in my 20s

 

[DaveCinzano]

Moving to Bristol and not having a job but lots of cheap cinemas (at the time), I just loved being enthusiastically into going to the pictures all the time

Watching Goldeneye at lunchtime on a weekday in a near-empty Odeon, enjoyed it enough to stay in for the next screening

Watching Se7en at lunchtime on a weekday in a near-empty Odeon, intrigued by the opening credit sequence, the grim Lust scene, andmumbly English leather dude etc enough to stay in for the next screening so I could snatch glimpses of what was written, what was shown, and WTF he said

Watching Andy Warhol's arty-but-interminably boring double-screen Chelsea Girls at a tiny cinema with sofas on the stage and a lot of free absinthe and a very disrespectful, lairy audience

 

[marty21]

In the mid 80s I went to see a Gene Hackman film about a college or high school basketball team, it was called Hoosiers in the states , where I watched it . When his small town team triumphed in the championship game (sorry for the spoiler) most of the cinema stood up & whooped and applauded

 

[davesgcr]

The Welfare Hall , Gwaun Cae Gurwen where some nutter fired a rocket at the screen - luckily it missed....never seen people move so fast. Bangers yes - rockets a different scenario.

The Palace Cinema Ammanford , where viewing of Emmanuel could be viewed by 12+ kids.


Best of all perhaps - the Colliseum at Aberystwyth - (now a museum) , where watching a Bowie film , we were entertained by rats running around.

 

[Sue]

for some reason which i can't now fathom i went with a friend to see three men and a baby one afternoon many years ago at barnet odeon. for reasons i cannot now recall i'd bought some prawns at the sea food kiosk outside. there were some girls in the cinema throwing sweets about, and one hit me so i slung back a barrage of prawns. one evidently hit a target as there was a screech of 'i've been hit by a fish!'. cue great consternation in the cinema and we beat a hasty retreat

That's a right fishy tale...