Piccadilly's is currently the only operating cinema in central Perth. Does this amaze anyone else? The next nearest cinemas are in Mount Lawley, South Perth(?)... and not sure where else.
The reasons that I like Picadilly's are: its art deco stylings, the feeling that when you enter the doors and walk up the stairs you are actually travelling back through time and of course, it's relative cheapness. The reasons that I don't like Picadilly's are: the seats are often uncomfortable, the floors are often sticky, and they tend to pick up and screen the more crapper of the Hollywood releases. I saw one of my most hated films here: "The Terminal". Under no reasonable condition should you ever subject yourself to this film, for you will surely perish with a seething overflow of wrath.
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Paradiso in Northbridge is closer. But yes, it's funny to think that the city centre once had three cinemas and now only has Picadilly. I haven't seen a film there in ages. I agree with all the pluses and minuses you mention here.
Haha. How come you hated The Terminal so much? There was an exhibition at ACMI that looked at set design and they had some footage from that, for its obvious Jacques Tati infleunces, and I was like, Oh shit, that was a film once.
In summary: good post, Karen!
Ooooooh I forgot about Paradiso! Yes that is a generally good cinema... though overall I think the accessibility of films/cinemas in central Perth is loooowwwww.
Hahah why did I hate the Terminal!?
Well first of all, I resented Tom Hank's portrayal of an Eastern-European migrant... with the silly midge-madge accent he put together, and all of the silly quirky "Eastern European" mannerisms and customs. His portrayal just seemed so... AMERICAN! Also, I absolutely did not buy the love interest between him and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Her character was a massive BITCH who ignored him all the time!!!
I'm quite surprised about the Tati comparison... I mean - I like Tati!!! I think his films have more subtlety and genuine quirky light-slapstick visual trickery. The Terminal in comparison, seems blunt and fudge-like.
Or you know, maybe it's cos I just don't like Tom Hanks (in any other role other than in BIG and maybe PHILADELPHIA). hahahaha
are they not building a cinema into the building that they are erecting on the site that once held the hoyts on hay st?
this is what's problematic about the perth CBD, which will hopefully change with the sinking of the railway line - there's no culture in there! there used to be three or four cinemas in the city centre (five including lumiere - remember that one?), including several hoyts and greater union ones, but as the CBD became more about business and less about leisure, all the suburban megaplexes - which have really taken off in the last decade - have chewed up all the business.
it's sad to think that people would rather stay out in the burbs and just go to the one same megaplex that's in the shopping centre with all the shops where they do all their shopping, and never really venture away from their safety net of suburbia.
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