FAST X – the high-octane new Fast and Furious movie – is on sale in IMAX now 👀
That's another chance to experience the region's biggest and most immersive screen before temp closure in June 🕐
Book fast 🏎️ scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/cinema/imax-fa
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Yorkshire's biggest independent cinema, in the National Science and Media Museum. Home to three immersive screens, including the largest IMAX in the region.
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Prepped for the bank holiday weekend?
IMAX: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 🦝
NT Live: GOOD 🎭
Godland ✝️
One Fine Morning 🌅
What's Love Got To Do With It? 💒
Rye Lane 🇬🇧
Kids' Club: Megamind 🧠
How to Blow Up A Pipeline 🛢️
Cairo Conspiracy 🕌
Dance Craze 🎸
Polite Society 🥋
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Get ready for an incredible celebration of cinema technology! As Widescreen Weekend returns to 28 September — 2 October.
Expect an amazing weekend of film screened from a range of stunning formats and immerse yourself in the magic of cinema. 📽️
#WSW23
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Last but not least, there's fun for everyone with a family film every Saturday and Sunday morning for the reduced price of £3.
Kids Club is in on May weekends with Megamind and the Kung Fu Panda trilogy.
Book your tickets here: bit.ly/3NtpQvN 🎥
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GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3 opens tomorrow in our IMAX 🚀 🦝
The final entry of the beloved Marvel trilogy might be your last chance to experience the region's biggest and most immersive screen before our temp closure in June – don't miss out bit.ly/3VECL05
This is CINERAMA!
Had a wonderful day out to to see "How The West Was Won" on three strip 35mm Cinerama.
Such an immersive experience. I never thought I'd get to see a proper Cinerama projection like this.
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ONE FINE MORNING 🌅
The new film from celebrated director Mia Hansen-Løve (Things to Come, Father of My Children).
Winner of Best European Film at Cannes 2022, and featuring a career-best performance from the incredible Léa Seydoux.
Screening now 🎟️ bit.ly/3NgPEet
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Quick but important weekend poll
- Dog in a spacesuit0%
- Magical cat100%
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Praise for Godland:
'A true epic' (The Arts Desk)
'Breathtaking' (BFI)
'Dazzling' (Financial Times)
Screening now at Pictureville 🎟️
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To continue the photographic theme, Godland invites the viewer to look through a 19th-century lens.
The film is shot in 4:3 format with rounded corners, as if we are seeing the action unfold through the plate camera itself.
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The Journal of the Photographic Society commented on the Ottewill's design: 'there is none which more fully combines the requisite strength and firmness with a high degree of portability and efficiency.'
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'Carrying his camera, plates, tripod and portable darkroom on his back like Christ lugging the cross, Lucas appears as if on a priestly “errand into the wilderness,” dragging modern Europe to this inhospitable place.' –
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The Ottewill folding box camera, made from the early 1850s and available into the 1860s, was designed to be compact for carrying and field work – which would have made it perfect for our intrepid clergyman.
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Hlynur Pálmason's arthouse drama is about a priest in the 19th century who ventures into rural Iceland to set up a church.
A keen photography enthusiast, he documents his travels with a wet plate camera, typical for the period.
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GODLAND: ★★★★★ in The Guardian, and 'one of the best movies about photography ever' (Digital Camera World) 📷
But did you know it features a camera very similar to one in the collection?
Read more 👇
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We spent a lovely sunny day exploring brilliant #Bradford☀️ and we highly recommend a visit!👍
Thank you #EnjoyWestYorkshire
visitbradford.com
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In the 90s I went to see 2001 in Cinerama, the first time since 1968 at Newcastle Queens curved Cinerama screen. I tell people you haven't seen Imax until you have experienced Imax
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Screening this Sunday 🤠
'You may have seen IMAX, but I don’t think you have seen cinema until you have seen How The West Was Won as it was originally intended to be seen - in “three strip” Cinerama...'
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For #EarthDay2023 tomorrow, experience the incredible atmospheric beauty of our planet with the mysterious BERG.
For fans of hiking, stunning views and ambient music ⛰️
🎟️ bit.ly/3oxBkUA
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Paint the town this weekend 🔴
The Three Colours trilogy concludes this Saturday and Sunday – with its most celebrated entry 🟥 bit.ly/40t9GW5
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Three Colours: Red is one of only two films ever with a 100% rating on both RottenTomatoes and Metacritic. Catch the 4K restoration on the big screen, presented in collaboration with @pictureville_BD.
22-23 April // Pictureville Cinema
Book Tickets: ow.ly/issP50NOOza
22-23 April // Pictureville Cinema
Book Tickets: ow.ly/issP50NOOza
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This Sunday at 15.00, the UK Emergency Alerts service will be tested on all mobile phones across the UK.
We'd advise you to please turn your phone off if you're in on Sunday afternoon to see a film 📱
More info at gov.uk/alerts
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Saw this at last year - beaut cinematography of natural landscapes and minimal plot ft. folky/historic stuff. Pretty long though … (2hr 23)
Showing soon at !
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Just been priviledged to visit the projecion booth at the Pictureville Cinema here at , Bradford. #EnjoyWestYorkshire
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Stephen Hawking at Work is open until 14 May.
Explore incredible objects from the working environment of this great scientist – and occasional actor 👇
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Redmayne deliberately avoided Cumberbatch's performance when he prepared for his own role.
'I heard it was breathtaking. I knew myself well enough to know that if I watched it I'd try to steal little bits.'
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But Benedict Cumberbatch beat Redmayne to the first-ever actor portrayal of the famous scientist, for 2004's BBC television film Hawking.
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During the editing of The Theory of Everything, filmmakers struggled with the task of remaking Hawking's synthesised voice.
Hawking, who loved the film, granted special permission to use his own synthesised voice, which is heard in the final edit.
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Prof. Hawking has also been portrayed by some of Britain's best-loved actors.
Eddie Redmayne won an Academy Award for his portrayal of the scientist's early life in 2014's The Theory of Everything.
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The show's creator, Chuck Lorre, said:
'All of Prof. Hawking’s dialogue was preprogrammed and triggered through a voice synthesizer.
When we offered to do that, we were told he preferred to program and trigger his lines by himself. He wanted to "act."'
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Appropriately for a show about physics nerds, Professor Hawking also appeared in The Big Bang Theory a number of times – most notably in 2012's 'The Hawking Excitation.'
In the episode, the physicist reads and critiques an essay excitedly given to him by Sheldon.
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During filming, Hawking was given a tour of the set, and upon seeing the prop of the Enterprise's superspeed-enabling warp core, reportedly commented, 'I'm working on that...'
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It's actually thanks to original Trek star Leonard Nimoy that Hawking appeared.
Nimoy was presenting a screening about the legendary scientist when he was told by the film's producer that Hawking was a Trek fan.
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in 1993, Professor Hawking appeared in Star Trek: The Next Generation, playing cards on the holodeck with fellow scientific pioneers Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton.
The appearance was the only time a guest played themselves in the history of the show.
youtube.com/watch?v=nEa7Cf
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When he passed away, the Simpsons paid tribute to the famous physicist with a card at the end of an episode, showing Hawking in his iconic jet-powered helicopter wheelchair.
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According to showrunner Al Jean, he loved the show so much he would 'just turn up' to writing sessions, and contributed jokes about himself – including Homer's famous line: 'Larry Flynt is right! You guys stink!'
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Professor Hawking appeared as himself in six episodes of The Simpsons, most notably the acclaimed Season 10 episode 'They Saved Lisa's Brain.'
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Stephen Hawking At Work, an exhibition exploring the legendary physicist's office, is open at until 14 May 🌌
But how about Stephen Hawking On Screen?
Prof. Hawking appeared in film and TV many times over the decades. Here's a rundown of some of the highlights 📽️
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