A blink-and-you'll-miss-it snippet of news from this morning's Guardian: Art house flicks get hi-tech clips.
"The UK Film Council said yesterday that it would invest £13m in new digital projection equipment for British cinemas. In return, cinemas will be asked to show more specialised, non-blockbuster films."
Last week Imax announced plans to open 12 more screens across Britain. Are cinemas finally about to embrace the future?
Well, it's great that money is being pumped into improving projection equipment across Britain's sometimes rather Dickensian picture houses- and with the movie industry actually enjoying one of its most profitable periods for years, asking cinemas to try out a little more niche programming probably won't hit their pockets too much. But I do hope a corresponding effort goes into making versions of classic movies available on these new formats - it would be a shame to have high quality equipment that isn't able to show high quality movies.
