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Topic: Open Air Cinemas
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Mike Peckham
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1461
From: West Sussex, UK.
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted December 14, 2004 02:45 PM
It seems to be a feature of Greece that they have many small open air cinemas that open up just for the summer months. They often seem to be very amateur affairs, cobbled together in what were probably peoples back gardens, with a large screen painted on a blank wall and a projection box looking a little like an oddly placed lighthouse.
One that I am very familiar with is on Mykonos, we tend to spend a couple of weeks on the Island most years and it has become our habit to check the programme quite early in the holiday so that we can plan our viewing.
It's one of those cinemas that makes you want to go and see a film even when there's really nothing on that you want to see. The seats are basically garden chairs and although they are arranged in a vaguely auditorium stile, patrons tend to re-arrange them into family groups. Whole families go, we went to see both Kill Bill and Kill Bill II this year and I was a little surprised to see children there from the very youngest right through to teens.
A ticket office is cobbled together by putting a garden chair next to the gate and I'm sure it is the projectionist who works the door!
The most charming thing about this little cinema is that the projector projects through a clearing in the trees and as the wind blows, you can see shadows of the branches on either edge of the screen!
As with everywhere in Greece, whilst you sit and watch the film the street cats come and wander around your feet hoping for a bite to eat and the whole atmosphere is one of marvelous congeliality, a little like showing a film to friends in your living room!
The open air cinema on Mykonos is probably my favorite cinema, except for my dining room of course
Mike
-------------------- Auntie Em must have stopped wondering where I am by now...
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