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Article: Perspective: A great chance for art cinema; Arts Editor Terry Grimley looks at plans to give Birmingham a new art cinema housed in an architectural gem.(Features)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- March 5, 2004
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Byline: Terry Grimley
When the Electric Cinema closed in January, Birmingham found itself without a city-centre venue dedicated to presenting the best of world cinema.
But there is a proposal which would remedy that. It would deliver a three-screen complex in a wonderfully atmospheric listed building off Broad Street, close to Symphony Hall, the Ikon Gallery and CBSO Centre.
The development in the Retort House, a historically important early 19th century gas works connecting Gas Street to Berkley Street, would incorporate a large and ...