A popular cinema in Shrewsbury will reopen on Friday, August 29, following a series of improvements to the theatre and popular café bar this summer.
The new season of films at the Old Market Hall is broader as a result of the improvements, which have included the installation of new digital projection equipment.
As a result, this season’s list of films includes a broad mix of 35 mm, digital films and a 3D film.
Over the next three months audiences will be able to choose from a wide selection of films including Mamma Mia!, and The Duchess, starring Keira Knightly. Later in the season the programme features the long-awaited remake of Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh’s exceptional story set in between the two world wars.
The OMH programme also contains a selection of foreign language films. Two classic films featured are Billy Wilder’s The Apartment and a special showing of the 1925 silent version of The Phantom of the Opera which features possibly the most famous phantom of them all, Lon Chaney, and will have live accompaniment by Paul Shallcross.
There are a number of films to appeal to younger audiences as well as the young at heart. From Disney, the latest in The Chronicles of Narnia series, Prince Caspian, and Wall-E – the story of the last working robot on earth.
Fly Me To The Moon is a 3D adventure involving three teenage flies who go into space on the Apollo 11 mission.
The OMH continues its special Movie Mornings for Mums (and dads) exclusively for parents and guardians with babies up to a year old. They can enjoy the Old Market Hall’s varied programme without worrying about their baby making a noise, having to get up for feeding or finding someone to babysit for them. For these sessions the sound is turned down and the lights up slightly to create a calming atmosphere.
Finally, ahead of the reopening of the cinema, the OMH café bar opens this Saturday. Cultural services manager, Lezley Picton, told us: “It will be lovely to be back in the Old Market Hall again and we thank all our patrons for their patience over the summer.”
The OMH brochure gives full details of films, times, and ways of booking and can be obtained either by calling in at the Old Market Hall or The Music Hall box office. Alternatively, information is available on the website www.oldmarkethall.co.uk
