About 25ft from my house is the cinema Corallo which reopened it's doors as a cinema in 1947 having been bombed during WWII...the movie playing 'Blood in the Arena'
This cinema has been closed for at least ten years with eerie rat traps surrounding it's front doors.
Last night however it's doors were opened, they're open for the month of September sadly there'll be no movies playing, you can do a tour, view an exhibition, but a film projected? that we'll never see again in this beautiful cinema, instead all us city dwellers have to drag ourselves out to the giant multiplexes.
I know this is old news, no room for the small independents but you always wait in hope, there is no hope foe the Corallo, after it's opened it's doors for the final call the supermarket is arriving, soon I'll be able to buy my dried pasta and tea where there was once lush velvet red seats.
