With their innovative approach, The Auteurs hope to introduce art house cinema to a whole new audience.
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Today, local residents and new owners Stephen and Lisa Burdge are hoping that its latest role as an independent art house cinema will be as well-received.
Meanwhile, the closure of the House of Cinema has put new restrictions on Iran's robust film industry.
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The film community is particularly up in arms over the culture ministry's January decision to close the House of Cinema after 20 years of operation.
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Supporting them was the writer and director of "A Separation, " Mr. Farhadi, who has used his new celebrity status to publicly plead with authorities to keep the House of Cinema open.
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The movie seems clean and steady, a corrective to the lushness and extravagance that, for better or worse, has come to be seen as the house style of Chinese cinema.
Also known as Event Cinema or Greater Union, the movie house features a carpet so aggressively ugly it almost qualifies as modern art and is worth the cost of admission alone.
President Clinton used Washington's most recognizable set, the White House, to announce that most cinema owners had agreed to require young people to show photo IDs when they ask for tickets to R-rated movies (an R rating means those under 17 must be accompanied by a parent or adult guardian).
The BBC said cinema audiences would have "the best seats in the house" with key cameras in front of the conductor and a remote camera within the orchestra.
The Whiteladies Picture House closed in 2001 and supporters are hoping to reopen it as a cinema and arts centre.
According to a recent survey by Shugoll Research, a pollster, more than 92% of the people who saw one of the Met's performances in a cinema said they were likely to go to a performance at the Met or another opera house.
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These included the Majestic cinema, now the Elihu Yale pub, and the Empire which is the Seven Stars public house.
The Whiteladies Picture House closed in 2001 and a petition calling for it to be reopened as a cinema and arts centre has collected more than 1, 600 signatures.
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