When I was a teenager, more than a decade ago now (!), I worked at the Odeon Cinema in Hemel Hempstead. It was while at that cinema, long before the days of single operators running the kiosk, tearing tickets and playing the film out – that I trained as a projectionist. My actual job was working in the cinema itself – mainly either in the kiosk/Hagen Daz bar or at [...]
I’m a big fan of film, I love movies, cinema, visual entertainment but more than this I love going to the cinema. Now at first glance that last bit might sound the same as all the previous statements – but there is a big difference between them. You can love a film, a movie and visual entertainment; you can enjoy going to the cinema – but having a love of [...]
A friend asked me how I would rank the places and things that impact my identity the other day. The concept behind it was to rank the things that make me who I am in order – starting with national identity and then gradually working down the list. So the first thing on the list for me, as a British citizen, would be … well British but the concept then [...]
