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Fond memories of travelling up to central London and going there with my mum during school holidays as a treat, and going in Jolyon's opposite for doughnuts! Saw A Bridge too far there, that was great on big screen.
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Yes, the Odeon Leicester Square is now the last of London's huge auditoria, and even that doesn't have the seating capacity it used to now they've filled the stalls (and some of the balcony) with recliners. The main screen at the one-time Empire Leicester Square (now the Cineworld) was split in two (IMAX and "Impact"), the Leicester Square Theatre became the Odeon West End and was split in two and has been a building site for several years now, the Plaza Regent Street became two big and two tiny screens and is now a Tesco, the one-time Warner West End had a huge Screen 2 (never understood why the screens were numbered 2,4,3,1,5 in decreasing size order) but the whole place was renovated to a 'plex, then another 'plex. The Odeon Haymarket* wasn't massive, but it was pretty decent and that's been gone for years, and the one-time ABC Shaftesbury Avenue had two large screens and is now an Odeon (Covent Garden) with four screens, ranging from smaller to much smaller.
I only ever saw a handful of films at the Odeon Marble Arch, as they rarely had anything exclusive or hard to find someone else. I deliberately chose to see TOTAL RECALL and THE ABYSS there, as my local Granada had put those films into their pokey Screen 2 and I wanted a better experience of them. Also HEARTS OF FIRE, the near-forgotten rock musical with Bob Dylan and the final film of Richard Marquand.
*not to be confused with the "Odeon De Luxe Haymarket", which is actually the old Cinecenta/Cannon Panton Street, drained of all its grotty fleapit charm, rebranded and filled with those bloody recliners.
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Jun 15, 2021 - 4:45 AM
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Rameau
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The Odeon Haymarket was a classy cinema, but I didn't see that many films there. I have good memories of The Warner, seeing The Wild Bunch, Start The Revolution Without Me, A Clockwork Orange & The Devils there. There was The Astoria, Charring Cross Road, that's been closed for decades. But most of my cinemagoing was to local cinemas, they were everywhere, & the tatty old ones (& some of those were huge with massive screens) that just showed old films, everything from a year old to a film from the thirties (all long gone, every one of them). But that's it, things change, & with Blu-rays & streaming & large great looking TVs, us movie lovers have never been so well served.
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