Cinema

When the curtain goes up at the start of the Hinterlands Film Festival in the Dales next month, it will be on a movie shot half a century ago – yet for the audience it will herald a new era.

On a shortlist that included Michael Caine, Idris Elba and Joaquin Phoenix, it would have taken an extreme optimist to put down money on an effort by two lads from Bradford who had never made a movie before.

Beyond the magic portal to fame lies a land of riches. That’s how showbusiness is supposed to work.

The Luna Cinema is returning to York Minster for the second time this summer, over three days at the end of August.

Cineworld’s profits more than doubled last year after film-goers flocked to watch Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War.

There was a time, not so long ago, when the idea of a film about women boxers would have raised a few eyebrows.

Upmarket cinema chain Everyman saw rapid growth last year amid an aggressive expansion drive.

It is the river that gave the city its name, yet few in Sheffield appear even to have heard of it.

Sometimes I don’t want to be serious. Sometimes I don’t want to rant. Sometimes I just want to be entertained... which is why I stayed up all night on Sunday into Monday to watch the Oscars. And why for this week at least in this column, politicians and anyone else taking us to hell in a handcart can well, go to hell in a handcart.

This weekend’s Oscars bring award-winning fashion that can work for all. Fashion editor Stephanie Smith picks out red carpet to summer wedding looks. Plus what’s happening and when.

Screen veteran Timothy West is replacing Bernard Cribbins in the Dad’s Army remake after the actor stepped down from his role.

Having been around film industry folk for the best part of 30 years means, perhaps inevitably, that I’ve made contact with that burnished metal man known as Oscar.

It may be the only film record of one of the lost buildings of York, a vast prison whose rows radiated like the spokes of a wheel from a hub next to Clifford’s Tower.

Seasonal romcom Love Actually will tour the UK this winter with a full orchestra performing its soundtrack live to picture, in what is becoming an annual highlight of the holiday calendar for many across the country.

Only half a century separated Peter Jackson’s last project from his next. Fifty years to the day since The Beatles played their last public concert, on a London rooftop, he announced plans to do for them what he had done for the troops in the trenches.

EVERY cinemagoer will, of course, take a different view of which films are worthy of an Academy Award, and which are best left behind with the stale popcorn – and the debate will doubtless continue beyond February 25 when the envelopes are opened.

With Mary Queen of Scots out in cinemas, Jon Bradley, a programme manager at Sheffield Manor Lodge, sheds light on her time in the city. Laura Drysdale reports.