![]() I had one golden year in the last days of the old school, pre-internet cinema-going age.įor my sins, I became a projectionist. I was usher, I was security, I pinned the letters on the sign over the doors – sometimes having to run up to the Savoy at the last minute (to ask for an ‘E’ please, Bob). Returning to Dublin after several years in Buenos Aires, only to find the Adelphi closed down, the Carlton in its dying hours, and a multiplex on Parnell Street, I somehow ended up with the key to my very own picture house…The Screen. This is where I write myself into the legend. Back To The Future a year later, at the Adelphi, and regular Disney revivals at the Metropole, later the Screen Cinema, which finally shut its doors on 19th February 2016.Īh, the Screen Cinema. Those were heady years, indeed: Gremlins at the Carlton across the road (the first film I saw with my newly prescribed glasses, cementing my nerd credentials). My anticipation for this celluloid event cannot be overstated. My teenage years officially began in 1984, with Ghostbusters at the Savoy, again on O’Connell Street. And yes, it was ‘bleedin’ massive, good buddy!’įrom out of the ‘burbs I entered the boulevard of city centre cinemas My dad got on his CB radio as he drove me and my brother into town, asking exactly how big that queue was for The Empire Strikes Back. From out of the ‘burbs I entered the boulevard of city centre cinemas rolling down (and off) O’Connell Street, and joined those long snaking queues wrapping around the Ambassador. As John Williams’ music buckled my ears, I finally realised I was part of something far greater than myself.īy the time 1980 rolled around, the State was a shell. Outside of mass, I’d never been in such a huge building, filled with so many people. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Arnotts’ car park… sorry, formerly the Adelphi Cinema, on Abbey Street! In 1978, Superman: The Movie was a watershed. There were times Phibsborough just wasn’t big enough. Arrival guide for international students. ![]() Coworking & Enterprise Centres in Dublin.Public and private healthcare in Ireland.
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