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The Guardian // World // Europe

‘A monument to kindness’: the rise of Britain’s community cinemas

Monday 20th October 2025, 10:24AM

With more than 1,600 screens, people share how local-run venues are taking them on a film-worthy adventureThirty years ago, the battle to save a cinema would take Jan Dunn and her community on an adventure worthy of a film itself.When she heard that the Apollo, the last cinema in the area, was closing, she got together with a group of women who rescued it from demolition, and so was born the Plaza community cinema, run by volunteers and a handful of employees. Continue reading...

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