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Home » Theater Guide » Location » United Kingdom » England » Derby » Metro Cinema

Metro Cinema

Derby, England
Green Lane
, Derby, England, United Kingdom DE1 1SA
(map)
Status: Closed
Screens: Single Screen
Style: Gothic Revival
Function: Unknown
Seats: 126
Chain: Unknown
Architect: Unknown
Firm: Unknown
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The Metro Cinema is now Derby's oldest operating cinema. It opened on 15th January 1981 with a special screening of Jacques Tati in "Monsieur Hulot's Holiday" followed the next day when the general public were admitted, with Derek Jarman's "The Tempest".

It is housed in the former lecture theatre of the Derby College of Art, a turn of the century Victorian building which dates from the late 1890's. Today the building is part of Derby University and is known as the Derby Central School of Art. It was set up as one of several Regional Theatres funded by the British Film Institute in conjuntion with Derby City Council and the East Midlands Arts Board. All these bodies still support the funding of the operation of the building.

The Metro Cinema remained open as Derby's only outlet for art house films and drew a large and regular audience of discerning patrons who saw here films that the city's two multiplexes will not screen.

In October 2006, the Metro Cinema, Green Lane was closed due to the lease expiring. It moved temporarily into the Heap Lecture Theatre at the Keddleston Road Campus of the University of Derby where a 35mm projector and a digital projector were installed.

The Metro Cinema moved into its new home at the newly built 2-screen Quad Cinema on 28th September 2008.

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Metro Cinema (Official)
Contributed by KenRoe

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This site of the Metro has now closed but the the cinema has relocated to another of the University buildings - The Heap Lecture Theatre at the University of Derby, Kedleston Road
posted by Ian on May 10, 2007 at 11:03pm
derby cinema ads including the Metro from 1982/3/4
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/2313607874/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/2312794187/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/2312790555/
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/2313612988/
posted by woody on Mar 6, 2008 at 2:04am
The last three photos on this website show the Metro Cinema on Green Lane.

posted by Lost Memory on Apr 28, 2008 at 10:17am
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