Cinecenta: Space Age Cinema in Yorkshire + Charlie Bubbles (PG)

Illustrated talk with writer, academic and filmmaker Mark Goodall (University of Bradford), exploring the lost history of Bradford’s Cinecenta cinema.

Located in the now-demolished modernist Forster Square complex, Cinecenta offered Yorkshire film fans a unique mixture of world, arthouse and ‘adult’ cinema. The cinema sadly now has a somewhat seedy reputation but as this talk will reveal, in its inception, had a bold, almost revolutionary, mission, offering a new way forward for film culture threatened by the emergence of TV.

The talk is followed by a screening of Charlie Bubbles (1967), the only film directed by Albert Finney and the first film to be screened at Bradford Cinecenta.