Curzon Cinemas

Yeah, that was something Philip Nashville said as well at the end on the Future Thinking panel.

You know, Philip from Curzon, where he was sort of saying, again, you know, embrace AI.

Let's embrace AI for the way it can help the industry, how it can help bring production costs down, how it can open up opportunities for independent filmmakers.

I mean, I, you know...

So 1987, a movie I saw at the cinema.

when I was about eight or nine with my nana and my brothers at the Curzon Cinema in Ermston.

And it was an old school cinema where you used to get a little break in the middle.

But anyway, it stars Dave, Art Malick, John Don Baker, and Mr. Timothy Dalton.

I like that a lot.

And actually, that's a really fantastic setup for the first film on Curzon's list.

It's 2006's This is England, Shane Meadows, BAFTA winning This is England, is both a quintessential British film, writes Curzon, and a poignant coming-of-age drama.

I think all the more important the point that you made, because Thomas Turgus plays a 12-year-old in that film, but he certainly comes to understand something over the course of the movie.

He comes to understand that racism is bad.

Call it a comedy.

It's a comedy.

Buck off, Curzon.

I think Daniel Craig took inspiration from his portrayal as James Bond.

So I went to the cinema in Urmston at the Curzon Cinema with a break in the middle with my nana and my brothers to watch, Dave, The Living Daylights.

So we're going to be watching this one.

And I've had it on the list.

And so they really responded to a desire when the Brunswick Centre, I believe, was being redeveloped by the developers.

to do something really creative and local to celebrate the reopening and refurbishment of the Brunswick Centre, which people will remember as sort of, well, now it's a Curzon, but it used to be the Renoir Cinema.

It overlooks Brunswick Square Gardens, where I think J.M. Barrie used to live there.

It's not very far from Great Ormond Street Hospital, Moorfield Eye Hospital.

I mean, we have a really interesting range of work.

Just one springs to mind as we speak, because I've had an email about it an hour or so ago.

So having talked about the Curzon Cinema, there's a group that regularly meet there called Bertha Dockhouse.

And I think they show documentaries at the Curzon in one of the cinemas at the Curzon on a regular basis.

I need the help.

But yeah, it's going to be cool because, you know, what's been really great is I managed to each year, well, not the first year, but the last two years, I managed to set up Junket, um interviews for during lff like round tables or one-on-one interviews with some of the people so we did like had one for super slash man um in 2024 and then last year we did it for waste man and we're excited that we're gonna already have in conversation set up another junket interview because it's difficult right because sometimes if you're kind of sometimes depending on your outlet you don't always get access so we would want to create a space where people can get some time with some filmmakers and we also do a mixer which is great shout out Curzon who are

going to be

once again providing a space and it may be excitingly it might be coinciding with the premiere of a very