Light House Cinema
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The Light House Cinema exterior at night | |
  Light House Cinema | |
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Market Square, Dublin 7 Dublin Ireland |
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| Coordinates | 53°20′55″N 6°16′45″W / 53.348733°N 6.279138°WCoordinates: 53°20′55″N 6°16′45″W / 53.348733°N 6.279138°W53°20′55″N 6°16′45″W / 53.348733°N 6.279138°W |
| Type | Cinema |
| Capacity | 614 |
| Screens | 4 |
| Opened | 2008 |
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lighthousecinema | |
The Light House Cinema is an art cinema with 614 seats across 4 screens in Dublin, which also serves as one of the venues for the Dublin International Film Festival.
From 1988-1996 the original Light House Cinema was located in an art-deco venue on Middle Abbey Street. A new government funded cinema was built and opened in Smithfield, Dublin in 2008. It briefly closed in 2011 following the Dublin property crash, but the property was taken over National Asset Management Agency (NAMA).
In 2012 Light House Cinema was taken over by Element Pictures and reopened. It's since become successful and popular with locals, thanks to its more eclectic mix of films including art-house and Hollywood blockbusters as well as regular classic screenings.
They have also started to host quiz nights, book clubs, specially hosted cult film screenings and a cinema music festival called 'One Two One Two Music Festival'.[1][2]
References
- ↑ Jez Conolly, Caroline Whelan World Film Locations: Dublin Page 7 2012 "For a country that has repeatedly featured in the world's top ten of cinema-going per capita statistics there seems to have ... Dublin International Film Festival and the opening of new film venues such as the Light House Cinema at Smithfield, "
- ↑ Light House Reopening 2012
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