One of Edinburgh’s oldest independent cinema’s could be lost, we talked about this before, but now I’ve been handed a link to a site to raise your objection about the possible loss of one of the best cinema screens in Edinburgh.
Save the Cameo have the petition running, and also a superb picture of the inside of the main screen, just have a look at it and see how great it looks. I’m actually off there tonight to see Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang and tomorrow morning for Where the Truth Lies. Gorgeous place, and it truly deserves to be kept running.
There’s only the Cameo and the Filmhouse that show independent and continental films that aren’t being shown in the Multiplexes now, and the Filmhouse is the bigger and favoured cinema in Edinburgh, yet it’s not the oldest and it’s new plans will turn it into more of a multiplex than ever. That will leave us with the Cameo, which brings us some truly great movies that you’ll just not see elsewhere – it also seems to have more press screenings than anywhere else!
Head over to the Save the Cameo site and lodge your protest, or just have a look at the location. Help keep this cinema alive, and if you’re an Edinburgh resident who hasn’t been there, go see a movie there in the next few weeks too.
For all the other readers here, what do you feel about the encroaching of Multiplexes into your cities and towns? Are, or have, your local Cinemas been dying out? Do you wish these sites were refurbished and renovated to keep them alive? Why not just move onto the huge multi-screens of today?
