Free Screening of The Blue Lamp at St Leonards School (Tuesday 19 February, 7pm)
I’m very pleased to announce that the second screening in the Cinema St Andrews film season will take place on Tuesday 19 February at St Leonards School. The show will start at 7pm. After our first screening in a church, we are now moving to a school to show the classic Ealing police drama, The Blue Lamp, which was co-written by a lifelong resident and University graduate of St Andrews, Jan Read. The Blue Lamp was the most attended film in the UK in 1950 and stars Dirk Bogarde, who was awarded an honorary degree from the University in 1985. The film is perhaps best remembered now for...
Read MoreCinema St Andrews film season – new venues!
We are delighted to announce that the Cinema St Andrews film season, originally scheduled for The Byre, has been rearranged and will now be playing at different venues across town. The original dates still apply. The season is intended as a way of celebrating the town’s rich film heritage and of bringing film to different audiences. In staging the events at a variety of venues – including a church and a school – we will be recreating and recalling significant screenings from the last century. Our first screening next Tuesday (5th February at 7pm) will be...
Read MoreThe Proper Place: Cinema going in the 1920s
Two boys visit the cinema on a trip to St Andrews in the 1926 Anna Buchan novel The Proper Place.
Read MoreFrom Silver Screen to the 18th Green
For a small town on the edge of the North Sea, St Andrews has long attracted film stars from around the world. While more recently (since 2001) the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship has brought celebrities such as Samuel L Jackson, Bill Murray and Michael Douglas to town, in the first half of the twentieth century Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Astor, and Laurel and Hardy could all be found wandering the streets and fairways of St Andrews. This week, as part of a collaboration between Dunhill and Cinema St Andrews, we are celebrating this history through a small exhibition at the Old Course Hotel....
Read MoreThe British are coming … again
This summer sees a nationwide re-release of Chariots of Fire to coincide with the Olympics. Dr Tom Rice discussed the legacy of the film within St Andrews in this BBC article. You can read more about the impact of the film on the town here.
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