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The Tyneside Cinema is an independent cinema in Newcastle upon Tyne. It is the city's only full-time independent cultural cinema , specialising in the screening of independent and world cinema from across the globe.
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One Tyneside Cinema, in Newcastle, is the last remaining newsreel cinema operating in the United Kingdom. [8] Tony was a pupil at Rosebank School in Hartlepool, West Hartlepool College of Art and graduating from Sunderland Art School with a fine arts degree.
Newcastle has multiple independent cinemas, including the famous Tyneside Cinema, [185] located on Pilgrim Street. It originally opened as the 'Bijou News-Reel Cinema' in 1937, and was designed and built by Dixon Scott, great-uncle of film directors Ridley Scott [184] and Tony Scott.
From 1976 to 1979, she was director of the BFI-aligned Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle upon Tyne. She oversaw a programme of films combining populist and more progressive tastes. One early critic of her program bemoaned the preponderance of "films about tractor collectives in the Ukraine". [9]
Sheila Whitaker was a recipient of the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for services to French cinema in Britain, an award which coincided with the end of her time as director of the London Film Festival, [8] and received honorary doctorates from Newcastle and Warwick Universities. [2]
The United Kingdom has a well-established history of independent cinema exhibition dating from the 1930s and the Film Society Movement, which still exists as the British Federation of Film Societies. Since the 1980s independent exhibition has thrived in regional film theatres set up under the auspices of the British Film Institute .
The Tyne Theatre and Opera House is a theatre in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.It is a Grade I listed building, [1] rated "in the top 4% of listed buildings" by English Heritage and is afforded a three star (the highest) rating by the Theatres Trust, "a very fine theatre of the highest theatrical and architectural quality".