Spooky Cinema Nairn

Nairn – famous for Tilda Swinton’s Cinema of Dreams – is about to get a Cinema of Nightmares!

Fans of frightening films are being urged to help decide the second half of community group Cinema Nairn’s spooky double bill on Friday 28 October by voting for one of four cult movies rarely seen on the big screen.
Votes can be cast by visiting www.cinemanairn.blogspot.com. The poll closes at midnight on Tuesday (18 Oct).

Cinema Nairn will get into the Halloween spirit by making the first half of its double bill, starting at 6pm, “The Ghost Goes West”. This cult comedy from the 1930s is about a Scottish castle shipped to America along with its resident kilted ghost.

The Highlander who does the haunting is suave Robert Donat, best known for his role as Hannay in Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps. The film is a U certificate and bound to delight all ages.

The public vote for the second half of the double bill, scheduled to start at 8pm, is between the following four films:
The Haunting
The Innocents
Nosferatu
Psycho

Cinema Nairn - which film won the popular vote?

To see which film won the members' vote for Cinema Nairn's December film head over to their website. 'It was a surprise result but the people have spoken,' says a source from the organisation and Cinema Nairn are showing it next Friday, the 17th. Followed on Sat 18th by a classic - The Pink Panther.

Cinema Nairn prepares for a trip to the moon

The film due to be screened this week by Cinema Nairn recently won a major award and it has been discovered the director has a connection with the north of Scotland.
The community initiative reviving big screen entertainment in the seaside resort has also announced three films to be shown as part of the Nairn Book and Arts Festival in June.
‘Moon’ (certificate 15) is this Friday, the 26th of March, starting at 7.30pm in Nairn Community Centre with tickets priced £4 (£3 for under 18s).
The film, originally released last year, is about a man who experiences a personal crisis as he nears the end of a three-year solitary stint harvesting resources on the moon.
A few weeks ago the director, Duncan Jones, won Best Debut at the BAFTAs.
It turns out Jones, son of legendary rock musician David Bowie, is a former pupil of Gordonstoun.
Moon won Best British Independent Film at the BIFA awards last year and Jones won the Douglas Hickox Award.
Cinema Nairn’s Jason Rose said: “Reviewers raved about Moon but it was only available to see briefly in Inverness so we’re delighted to give Nairnites the chance to judge for themselves what all the fuss was about. The main performance by actor Sam Rockwell is stunning. The cinematography and music are beautiful and make this a film that deserves to be seen on the big screen. Moon is usually labelled as science fiction but it’s not about little green men with laser guns - it’s a story about human emotion and how we interact with technology.”
Meantime Cinema Nairn have announced three films with literary themes to be screened as part of the Nairn Book and Arts Festival in June. They are: the Woody Allen classic ‘Manhattan‘ from 1979; ‘Kiss Kiss Bang Bang’ (2005), Robert Downey Jnr’s homage to hard-boiled detective fiction; and the romantic comedy ‘Shakespeare In Love‘ from 1999.
Details can be found on line at www.cinemanairn.blogspot.com.

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'A group of local enthusiasts calling themselves ‘Cinema Nairn’ have arranged for a day of classic movies to be shown on the big screen at the community centre on Sunday 29th November to gather reaction and, it is hoped, begin the revival of silver screen entertainment in the town... '

You can find out more about this worthy initiative, including details of the films that will be showing over at the new addition to the Nairn Blogosphere: Cinema Nairn.