Compton Cinema Club: the London film society that specialised in uncensored, illicit, and banned movies
Smart-thinking.
Cinema History
The treasure trove of lost cinema history found buried under a Canadian ice rink
Including films featuring silent movie stars.
The short, pungent, and altogether questionable history of Smell-O-Vision
Got right up moviegoers’ noses.
Andy Warhol, a 32-man police raid, and a watershed moment for X-rated cinema in Britain
Vital support came from an unexpected source.
The first movie genre banned in the United States wasn’t even real cinema
As soon as films were made, they were being censored.
Exploding Cinema: the guerrilla movement that shows movies everywhere except the big screen
The spirit of punk film lives on.
“Beaten to a frazzle”: the West End cinema that laid down the gauntlet to America
A lavishly decorated, newly built theatre.
Dundee’s forgotten history as the definitive cinema capital of the UK
Thousands of film-lovers would stream into venues in the city…
