The peculiar beauty of the world’s most remote cinemas
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Twenty eerily awesome cinemas at the end of the world. You know the feeling when you step out of a film screening and,
for a brief moment, it seems like you’re stepping out of a fictional world and into real life? What if you could prolong that magical feeling for just a little bit longer? Cinemas don’t always need to be another part of the grey fabric of a city, they can also be in some genuinely cinematic – and properly remote – locations. Don’t believe us? Here are the world’s most isolated picture houses for film buffs and adventurers alike.
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Rebel Cinema, Cornwall
On the off chance that you get showers on your trip to Cornwall,
The Rebel could be the rainy-day answer you need. A no-frills cinema that feels like stepping ‘into a time machine’, it has two screens as well as tickets and snacks which are so decently priced, you’ll never want to buy that £5.99 packet of Maltesers at your local chain ever again.
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The Callicoon Theatre, New York State
Built in 1948, the
Callicoon is one of the last remaining cinemas designed in the half-cylinder ‘quonset hut’ style, made popular after World War II as rural American military outposts were converted into civic buildings. The interior feels equally frozen in time, with art deco light fixtures, an antique popcorn machine and an old-school lamphouse projector on display in the lobby. At 350 seats, the theatre can hold roughly 12 percent of the population of Callicoon, the small mountain town in which it resides, making it something of a community hub. That quality is reflected in a homespun snack menu, which includes homemade cherry sodas, chocolate egg creams (a kind of carbonated ice-cream float) and locally-sourced popcorn.
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Katuaq, Greenland
This cultural centre in the Greenland capital of Nuuk isn’t just a cinema – its distinctive L-shaped building hosts gigs, plays and conferences too – but it is a place of pilgrimage for local movielovers. After all, this 2 million square kilometre landmass isn’t exactly swimming in multiplexes. Backdropped by the snowcapped peak of Sermitsiaq and clad in golden larch wood, it’s one of the most striking places on the planet to watch a movie.
Avatar: The Way of Water packed in 6000 cinemagoers in December 2022, but even that couldn’t match the 8000 tickets sold to Greenlandic horror movie
Alanngut Killinganni. They like to keep it local in this corner of the Labrador Sea.
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By some estimations, Bicknell is the smallest town in the United States with an operating movie theatre. That’s a hard one to fact check, but there’s no denying that the place is
tiny – the most recent census puts the population at 323. Somehow,
its namesake cinema has managed to stay in business for almost 80 years. (For 25 of those years, it even hosted an international film festival.) It’s changed hands and undergone several upgrades in that time, even adding a second screen a few years ago. But it maintains the same unique ‘industrial-pueblo’ look it’s had from the beginning – a stylish oasis in the middle of nowhere.
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