www.bbc.co.uk/markkermode. Do you have a personal all-time favourite cinema as steeped in memories as Proust's madeleines? I know I do and mine has just been reborn...
I grew up in North Finchley and lived in the block of flats opposite the complex with the finchley lido and hollywood bowl alley and the cinema (the name of which I've forgotten now). I would regularly go with my brother, sister and uncle and have fond memories of the place 😊
Really enjoyable tour Mark... even though i'm a huge movie lover I rarely go to the cinema, probably cos most of todays big releases are shite... but I really should make the effort to go more.
My favorite theatre wasn't anything special but I do remember watching great movies there throughout the years. The Capitol Theatre, North Battleford, Saskatchewan...that's right, Canada. Where you can watch your dog run away for days. I remember seeing Back to the Future, Batman (Tim Burton), each Lord of the Rings, as well as my favorite movie The Matrix.
@magiclightbox yes i keep missing the e in Staines. But its not my home town. I'm from Sunbury on Thames originally. Staines and Walton were the nearest Cinema's to Sunbury.
My favourite cinema was the original Stains odeon cinema. I think its demolished now. But it was a very important place in my child hood. I never saw what you would call important films there, well unless you count Beetlejuice, ET and Platoon. But it did have a smell and a look that you just don't have these days, and I'm not talking about the cigarette smell that all cinema use to have. I'm talking about non commercial class. Yes ,in Stains.
@thedynamitekidd same as our cinema in Durham, The Cannon, then it was a Robins cinema, then it closed down on the promise that we'd get another cinema in Durham. Instead we gor fobbed off with the "Gala" theatre, which is more a theatre/live venue, with a coupke of screens that seems to just show family/kiddie fare. No cinemas in county Durham at all, nearest is Gatehead which has an odeon imax now, and a UGC near Sunderland, mind, at least the UGC don't self censorship like Odeon.
As a teen I frequented the very old Duke of York's Cinema in Brighton and had many profound experiences. In recent times Edinburgh's Cameo and Filmhouse have been special. Also, God bless the Prince Charles forever!
Poor girl. She was brave enough to go on date with Mark Kermode but "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and Kermode at the same time she couldn't bare... but then probably no one could.
Foyer Love..Nights that I Satin.. The last 'film' I saw at a Cinema was Saw followed by a number, She stayed, I walked out. Harrington still fits the Bill.. They Don't make decent films any more..Do they?
I love how proud he is of not only the cinema but also abandoning his date.
"Well that wouldn't happen" That is actually a hilarious line
i love how mark said he'd stayed in the cinema when his date left, that's so me
+JJ No, thats so Mark.
+TheGrapeinc okay lol
+JJ owned
+Mike Cuthbertson I can't believe I've been 'owned' on a mark kermode video 😂
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I grew up in North Finchley and lived in the block of flats opposite the complex with the finchley lido and hollywood bowl alley and the cinema (the name of which I've forgotten now). I would regularly go with my brother, sister and uncle and have fond memories of the place 😊
Wud luv to see u tour the country and explore the good cinemas of old...Lovely stuff kermode
Such a sweet video. Nothing like a bit of passion and nostalgia from the good doctor!
That's a nice trip down memory lane. More Mark more!
Really enjoyable tour Mark... even though i'm a huge movie lover I rarely go to the cinema, probably cos most of todays big releases are shite... but I really should make the effort to go more.
2:50 I LOL’ed so loud🤣
You can really see Marks passion for that cinema.
Ha ha; "Modern art; that's new".
who'd i thought kermode's favourite cinema is just round the corner!
As a Finchley boy, I've always loved the Phoenix. Thanks for giving it the plug it deserves!
Got to be the Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle hands down, so many great memories there! Including my first date!
I adore the pheonix and was lucky enough to enjoy a stint of work experience there.
he seems genuinely excited :D
This makes me not feel so sad for loving going to the cinema every time i go
"Modern art, that's new never had that in the past"
Why was the back of the chair to his right higher than all of the others?
Brilliant, and what a refurb. It CAN be done....
Christ, that makes my local theater looks like shit.
This was great!!!
Fuck yeah. I love the Phoenix. Norf London represent.
(Very few things will get me to spell 'North' wrong intentionally, but this is one of them.)
Well, that was fun.
I always sit at the very front and centre.
I may have to go there. I'll sit in that seat each time hoping for a large handed tap on my shoulder from the man himself.
The 'Cas' in Finglas and later the IFT where I saw Laura Antonelli for the first time.
lol its curious how far away his favorite seat it. I personally like to sit a lot closer. not too far though
great vid
Love the ending
ive been there!!!!!! and my mother used to live there and is the same age as him. it would be amusing if she happened to be the girl who walked out.
My favorite theatre wasn't anything special but I do remember watching great movies there throughout the years. The Capitol Theatre, North Battleford, Saskatchewan...that's right, Canada. Where you can watch your dog run away for days.
I remember seeing Back to the Future, Batman (Tim Burton), each Lord of the Rings, as well as my favorite movie The Matrix.
@magiclightbox yes i keep missing the e in Staines. But its not my home town. I'm from Sunbury on Thames originally. Staines and Walton were the nearest Cinema's to Sunbury.
Man, I'd love to do one on my favourite cinema, but he speaks with such passion about this place that it'd make mine just look terrible. // :)
Everyone should embrace their inner geek. Let it flourish.
I do enjoy having a film critic on whom I can thoroughly rely. ffffp.
Got to say i love the odeon leicester square,
but the empire high wycombe does it for me :D
Kermode doesn't sit in the middle?? How is he supposed to apriciate the sound mixing??
Is Kermode wearing sunglasses that look like 3D glasses?!? O dear... :D
My favourite cinema was the original Stains odeon cinema. I think its demolished now. But it was a very important place in my child hood. I never saw what you would call important films there, well unless you count Beetlejuice, ET and Platoon. But it did have a smell and a look that you just don't have these days, and I'm not talking about the cigarette smell that all cinema use to have. I'm talking about non commercial class. Yes ,in Stains.
went here to see crispin glover's it is fine, its a beautiful cinema. I need to go back, If only to steal the doctor's seat
Hey it's the Scissor Sisters! 1:42
@thedynamitekidd same as our cinema in Durham, The Cannon, then it was a Robins cinema, then it closed down on the promise that we'd get another cinema in Durham. Instead we gor fobbed off with the "Gala" theatre, which is more a theatre/live venue, with a coupke of screens that seems to just show family/kiddie fare. No cinemas in county Durham at all, nearest is Gatehead which has an odeon imax now, and a UGC near Sunderland, mind, at least the UGC don't self censorship like Odeon.
The plaza (truro) for me!
As a teen I frequented the very old Duke of York's Cinema in Brighton and had many profound experiences. In recent times Edinburgh's Cameo and Filmhouse have been special. Also, God bless the Prince Charles forever!
The Plaza in Stockport
@Arsenal1501 Sorry, it was only sarcasm, I know they are sunglasses. :)
My favourite cinema is about to become a car park!
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Tyneside Cinema for me
@Derm1991 Especially to that movie...
does anyone know the name of the background song?
Poor girl. She was brave enough to go on date with Mark Kermode but "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and Kermode at the same time she couldn't bare... but then probably no one could.
@noncewhisperer Hey another Durhamer! Small world!!!
favorite seat is*
Foyer Love..Nights that I Satin.. The last 'film' I saw at a Cinema was Saw followed by a number, She stayed, I walked out. Harrington still fits the Bill.. They Don't make decent films any more..Do they?
How did they let Mark Kermode watch movies like The Exorcist in the cinema when he was still a child and below the legal age?
Well that would never happen...
Its like a mini Odeon Leicester square. But less of a rip off.
ilvoedmovies, and going to the theatre by myself sometimes, when i was kid to but i still maintain kermode..=bit of a douche