Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
SPECIAL REPORT: Europe 1997<br />
MULTIPLICITY<br />
As in much of Europe, Irish exhibition is changing<br />
dramatically. BOXOFHCE talks to some of today's<br />
movers & shakers, and looks back at a fabled past.<br />
by Tony Deane<br />
STOMPIN' AT THE SAVOY: The beautiful Savoy Cinema in Dublin is one of tfie last survivors from the early days of Irish exhibition.<br />
T\he Internet. What a wonderful vehicle<br />
for bringing people together Case in<br />
point: our new Irish correspondent,<br />
DMiner Tony Deane. Tonyfound us through<br />
BOXOmCE ONLINE (for those of you<br />
who 've been dead these last three years, that 's<br />
http://www.boxoff.com) am/ i/rwcA: up such an<br />
interesting and in.^ightful electronic correspondence<br />
that it was inevitable BOXOFFICE<br />
would make him our man on the Iri.sh .scene.<br />
We didn 't make it easyfor him— no sir, not<br />
us.<br />
Tony's first assignment was nothing less<br />
than a thumbnail sketch of Irish exhibition's<br />
entire history. We couldn 't be more delighted<br />
with the results.<br />
Here then is an Irishman 's view ofexhibition<br />
in his own home country. We 're proud to bring<br />
it to you, and we can promise you thi.s: you 'II<br />
he hearing more from Tony Deane in the very<br />
near future.— Ray Greene, Editor-in-Chief,<br />
BOXOFnCE<br />
THE HISTORY<br />
been called the land of saint-s and schol-<br />
It's<br />
ars, which is ok if you're living in acountry<br />
that still holds on to its old ways. The<br />
Ireland of today is lightyears away from all of<br />
tho.se old fashioned customs people love to<br />
hear about. It's the most westerly island in<br />
Europe, the next stop being the states, and<br />
while some foreigners often mistake it for part<br />
ofmainline Britain it's as faraway from Britain<br />
culturally as it could possibly be.<br />
The Irish Republic has a population of between<br />
three and four million, and research<br />
shows that it has the youngest population in<br />
Europe, each average member coming<br />
equipped with his or her own vast amount of<br />
disposable income. This is spent mostly on<br />
entertainment of some sort, and the cinema<br />
comes high among entertainment priorities.<br />
When Giuseppe Tomatore was writing the<br />
script for his film "Cinema Paradiso," he, like<br />
all Europeans of a certain age, he could draw<br />
on memories of a childhood when the local
Change language