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‘There is an incredible hunger for it’: why classic films are making a comeback in cinemas
From Caligula to Forrest Gump and My Neighbour Totoro, rereleases are hitting the big screen once again – and are proving lucrative at the box office
Stirring athletics biopic Chariots of Fire sits cheek by jowl with schmaltzy Tom Hanks fable Forrest Gump; magical Japanese animation My Neighbour Totoro finds houseroom next to melancholic Hungarian art film Werckmeister Harmonies; 1990s action yarn The Mummy galumphs alongside Francis Ford Coppola’s paranoid 70s classic The Conversation. Previously they were largely the preserve of organisations such as the BFI making archive treasures available on the big screen, or to publicise home entertainment releases on DVD and Blu-ray, the surge is in part down to simple issues of supply and demand. According to Jack Reid Bell, marketing manager of reissue specialist distributors Park Circus, the drying-up of the industry pipeline due to the pandemic and then the writers’ and actors’ strikes, left cinemas casting about to fill their screens.
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