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Curzon Cinemas has been sold for a ‘bargain’ £3.9m – is this good news for UK filmgoers? | Peter Bradshaw
The British arthouse cinema chain has changed hands. Its new American owners would be wise to ignore industry gloom and invest in discerning movie audiences
It consolidated its position in the arthouse marketplace with its acquisition of Artificial Eye in 2006 and the launching of a streaming service in 2010 and this integration was boldly masterminded by its outgoing CEO Philip Knatchbull, the dapper, urbane leader with a movie-aristocrat and actual-aristocrat background – he is the son of producer John Brabourne and grandson of Lord Mountbatten. The truth is that distributing world cinema hits and European festival favourites to discerning filmgoers in UK city locations is not a loss-leading enterprise or charity case. I myself have happy memories of taking to the stage at this historic cinema, with Kylie Minogue and director Leos Carax for a somewhat surreal question-and-answer event after his film Holy Motors.
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