{"id":13125,"date":"2011-10-05T20:13:48","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T19:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=13125"},"modified":"2011-10-05T20:16:11","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T19:16:11","slug":"vue-west-end-then-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/10\/05\/vue-west-end-then-and-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Vue West End &#8230;Then and Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Vue-Then-and-Now.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13126\" title=\"Vue in 2011 and 1976\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Vue-Then-and-Now.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"373\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What was showing at cinemas in London&#8217;s West End back in 1976?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2011_in_film\">This year<\/a> has already seen a record-breaking 27 sequels and a depressing number of remakes.<\/p>\n<p>Last month I took a picture of the Vue West End in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leicester_Square#Major_cinemas\">Leicester Square<\/a> just to remind myself that we really did live in a time when the three main attractions at one of the capital&#8217;s most prestigious cinemas were <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Inbetweeners_Movie\">The Inbetweeners Movie<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Smurfs_(film)\">The Smurfs<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Final_Destination_5\">Final Destination 5<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I came across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/khiltscher\/5218537264\/\">a photo on Flickr<\/a> of the same cinema in 1976 which revealed that at one point it was showing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Outlaw_Josey_Wales\">The Outlaw Josey Wales<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/All_the_President's_Men_(film)\">All The President&#8217;s Men<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barry_Lyndon\">Barry Lyndon<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/St._Ives_(1976_film)\">St. Ives<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The first three are classics and &#8230;St Ives?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"410\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MkJjITsgOvI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Well, three out of four isn&#8217;t bad.<\/p>\n<p>[Photo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/khiltscher\/5218537264\/\">Flickr user Affendaddy<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vue_(cinema)\">More on Vue at Wikipedia<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/43112408@N00\/\">Flickr group of Cinema Architecture<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What was showing at cinemas in London&#8217;s West End back in 1976?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}