#cinems

This weekend my radio column focused on the important work of film projectionist, from the arrival of purpose-built cinemas to now.

While I wasn’t thrilled with the overrall productions I put together, I drew from my archives and found a few projection cue sheets from the old Shea’s Hippodrome, which was demolished in the late ‘50s to make room for the new City Hall.

These sheets were in the projection booth to advise the show’s order. They still exist today — I create info sheets every Friday — but I find these absolutely fascinating.

Happy Birthday, Filmmaker Paul McGuigan, born in Bellshill September 19th in 1963.

Paul spent ten years working as a professional photographer for the fashion and music press before becoming a film and television director. His first feature, the television adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s The Acid House won him many admirers and awards followed. His most notable work is the popular TV Conan Doyle version of Sherlock, other TV work includes Monroe, starring James Nesbit, American thriller series, The Family and more recently Marvel’s Luke Cage, and Designated Survivor: both for ABC/Netflix.

His films include Push, Lucky Number Slevin and Gangster No.1 and Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool, stars Annette Bening and Jamie Bell.

More recently Paul has been directing stuff for the small screen with the mini-series Dracula, the American mystery-themed thriller Emergence and one of my favourites, the US crime drama Big Sky. His last big production was the mini-series Inside Man, which has David Tennant in the lead role, which had it's moments, but I wasn't overly impressed with it..

Orson Welles, una figura iconica nel mondo del cinema e dell’intrattenimento, ha lasciato un’impronta indelebile nella storia dell’arte visiva e narrativa. Attraverso la sua carriera multifacetica, ha dimostrato di essere un vero genio visionario, capace di rivoluzionare il modo in cui il cinema e la radio vengono percepiti e sperimentati. Con la sua creatività senza limiti e la capacità di…