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Not your regular film buffs
Source: The Record
Colin Hunter - March 24, 2009
Sitting halfway back in the theatre during Archangel is London Green, a retired university professor from Guelph, who only recently heard about Cinematheque Waterloo.
"I saw that they'll soon be screening Children of Paradise, which happens to be my favourite movie of all time," he said before the lights dimmed.
"I first saw it when I was 11. I have a video tape of it, but I never thought I'd see it again in a theatre." | article
Cinematheque does Waterloo
Source: The Cord Weekly
Daniel Joseph - January 21, 2009
Back when Paul Newman died, I found myself trying to remember how many of his films I had seen. It became clear to me that I had missed one of his best - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. I imagine that many others would be in the same boat with me.
Enter Cinematheque Waterloo - Waterloo’s own volunteer-run non-profit organization that is committed to bringing such silver-screen classics back to where they belong - at the front of an old theatre. On Tuesday Cinematheque screened the classic Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid on 35mm film at the Old Princess Cinema while the crowd was mesmerized by old blue eyes once again. | article
Arts fund grant recipients named
Source: The Record
Record Staff- January 06, 2009
A newly formed local opera company and a film festival are two of the 17 arts organizations to receive grants from the region.
Yesterday, the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund announced grants totalling $113,000. They include:
...
$7,000 to Cinematheque Waterloo to help start its program of film screenings and lectures | article | related article
Home theatres do not offer the real movie experience
Source: The Record
Martin DeGroot - November 11, 2008
The fact is that, despite all the flaws in the presentation, I became engrossed with the film as soon as it started, and remained that way throughout what turned out to be a thoroughly entertaining two hours and forty-plus minutes. It was, as they say, a good night out.
...
Home theatre opens up all sorts of possibilities and conveniences, but it just isn't the real thing.
The experience confirmed my appreciation of the Princess, and for two current endeavours that bear a relationship to the subject at hand:
Cinematheque Waterloo is a non-profit, membership-based enterprise. The group's inaugural program, a French New Wave retrospective, is currently running at the Original Princess Cinema.
Part of the purpose, once again, is to allow audiences to "experience the films as originally intended,'' and recapture what it means to spend "an evening at the theatre. | article
Not your regular film buffs
Source: The Record
Colin Hunter - March 24, 2009
Sitting halfway back in the theatre during Archangel is London Green, a retired university professor from Guelph, who only recently heard about Cinematheque Waterloo.
"I saw that they'll soon be screening Children of Paradise, which happens to be my favourite movie of all time," he said before the lights dimmed.
"I first saw it when I was 11. I have a video tape of it, but I never thought I'd see it again in a theatre." | article
Cinematheque does Waterloo
Source: The Cord Weekly
Daniel Joseph - January 21, 2009
Back when Paul Newman died, I found myself trying to remember how many of his films I had seen. It became clear to me that I had missed one of his best - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. I imagine that many others would be in the same boat with me.
Enter Cinematheque Waterloo - Waterloo’s own volunteer-run non-profit organization that is committed to bringing such silver-screen classics back to where they belong - at the front of an old theatre. On Tuesday Cinematheque screened the classic Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid on 35mm film at the Old Princess Cinema while the crowd was mesmerized by old blue eyes once again. | article
Arts fund grant recipients named
Source: The Record
Record Staff- January 06, 2009
A newly formed local opera company and a film festival are two of the 17 arts organizations to receive grants from the region.
Yesterday, the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund announced grants totalling $113,000. They include:
...
$7,000 to Cinematheque Waterloo to help start its program of film screenings and lectures | article | related article
Home theatres do not offer the real movie experience
Source: The Record
Martin DeGroot - November 11, 2008
The fact is that, despite all the flaws in the presentation, I became engrossed with the film as soon as it started, and remained that way throughout what turned out to be a thoroughly entertaining two hours and forty-plus minutes. It was, as they say, a good night out.
...
Home theatre opens up all sorts of possibilities and conveniences, but it just isn't the real thing.
The experience confirmed my appreciation of the Princess, and for two current endeavours that bear a relationship to the subject at hand:
Cinematheque Waterloo is a non-profit, membership-based enterprise. The group's inaugural program, a French New Wave retrospective, is currently running at the Original Princess Cinema.
Part of the purpose, once again, is to allow audiences to "experience the films as originally intended,'' and recapture what it means to spend "an evening at the theatre. | article