New home found for Hull Screen
Hull's only arthouse cinema is set to be saved.
City councillors have agreed to transfer Hull Screen to the Reel cinema in St Stephen's in the New Year.
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The Reel cinema in St Stephen's will house Hull Screen
The council-run cinema has struggled since moving from Hull's Central Library to the University of Lincoln's Savile Lecture Theatre in George Street three years ago.
Under the five-year deal, Hull Screen will operate from one screen in Reel, with others being made available for festivals.
Councillor Kalvin Neal, cabinet member for culture, said: "Although the officers had recommended closure, we wanted to give Hull Screen every chance to survive and flourish. Hopefully, this is the best way forward."
10 Comments
by Pablo Luis Gonzalez, Hull
Friday, November 28 2008, 2:37PM
“Council officers recommended the cinema to be closed. Poor audiences. It is not the council that let down the cinema, but you, the people, who failed to make it viable by not going to it. It is you, the people, who are at fault. You say that the council has to try to find them work: are you saying that the council should be employing people even when they have very little to do? It is because of that attitude that council personnel have such a bad name. What is real is that the personnel of Hull Screen would have been out of a job come the New Year, regardless of terms and conditions, if the Cabinet had decided to close the cinema. It seems to me that you are stuck in the 70s. The reality is different now. Money is tight everywhere.”
by karen, hull
Thursday, November 27 2008, 4:01PM
“Jobs would have been more secure because the council has to try to find them work! Once they are transferred to Reel, even though they go on the terms and conditions they are on now, anything can happen to them - that IS real!”
by Pablo Luis Gonzalez, Hull
Wednesday, November 26 2008, 12:15PM
“The alternative was for the cinema to be closed, jobs would have been lost anyway. Would you have been happy with that? Get real!”
by karen, Hull
Wednesday, November 26 2008, 10:15AM
“Well that's OK then - as long as we have our cinema, lets not worry if the people who work there end up without a job in 6 months time!”
by Pablo Luis Gonzalez, Hull
Tuesday, November 25 2008, 8:20PM
“I, as a member of Friends of Hull Screen, I don't care if Hull Screen is Council's owned or private, I just want an art-house cinema. Everything else is just hot air.”
by Tazztell, Tasmania, Australia
Tuesday, November 25 2008, 9:28AM
“Karen-private or not, at least there will still be a place in Hull for people to view european/world films , instead of the usual onslaught of American garbage. Sometimes you have to pay for quality.”
by LOL WUT, Bantown
Monday, November 24 2008, 10:30PM
“Arthouse, that's a euphemism for Pr0n right?”
by A. Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time
Monday, November 24 2008, 6:51PM
“Better privatised than non-existent. How much a year does it cost to run?.”
by Karen, hull
Monday, November 24 2008, 3:36PM
“The Screen has NOT been saved, it's been privatised. If the proper investment had been there from the beginning it would still belong to the people of this city as it should do!!”
by karen, Hull
Monday, November 24 2008, 3:34PM
“The cinema has NOT been saved, its been privatised!
If the proper investment had been there from the beginning it would still belong to the people of this city as it should do!”