Liz Evans was the mother of Wynne Evans, a principal of the Welsh National Opera who, since 2009, has appeared as a fictional Italian tenor called Gio Compario in the advertising campaign for GoCompare; and Mark Llewellyn Evans, a member of the English National Opera and founder of ABC of Opera. They both appear in the film in cameo roles. I can see this is all meant to be a simple and crowd-pleasing film that all the family can sit through, but it’s just incredibly dull, and most people are going to get bored while watching this. Save the Cinema is a British drama film written by Piers Ashworth and directed by Sara Sugarman, based on the true story of Liz Evans, a hairdresser and leader of a youth theatre in Carmarthen, Wales, who began a campaign in 1993 to save the Lyric cinema from closure. The film features mostly British talent, with principal roles led by Jonathan Pryce, Samantha Morton, Tom Felton, Adeel Akhtar and Susan Wokoma. [2] Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge.

I can see this film is a very romanticised notion of reviving a cinema that’s long, lost and almost gone, but Save The Cinema is the kind of film you can almost sleep through and you’ll have missed nothing. But about the film’s plot, and Colm Meaney– as Martyn – tries to mask his strong Irish accent with a Welsh one, but it doesn’t quite work. Still, his character wants to demolish The Lyric cinema and put up a shopping centre, instead, despite the fact that the cinema is a listed building. Mayor Tom Jenkins ( Adeel Akhtar) gets a bribe to go ahead with it, but at the major annoyance of Liz Evans ( Samantha Morton– I Am Kirsty, Rillington Place), who wants to put on a production of Oliver Twist. Save The Cinema is a new Sky Cinema film set in the ’90s, even though early on, we get The Waterboys’ Whole Of The Moon– from 1985 – blaring out. Then again, it did get a re-release in 1991 when it climbed higher in the charts, to No.3, instead of the original’s position of No.26. Ultimately, Liz aims for the cinema to get the chance to show Jurassic Park on the same night as the London premiere in July 1993. However, the build-up to that being the big-hitter aspect for this film feels as ho-hum a prospect as it plays out.

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Filming began in January 2021, [3] under strict health protocols due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Filming took place around Carmarthenshire, Wales. Locations included the Lyric cinema, Ammanford town hall, and the towns Laugharne and Llandeilo. [4] Release [ edit ]