NATIONAL Cinema Day takes place across the UK on Saturday September 2 and participating cinemas are offering savings on ticket prices, with several organising special showings of classic films.
Peter Pan (1953) has been re-released in cinemas to celebrate 100 years of Disney, whilst the thirtieth anniversary of Jurassic Park (1993) will see the film screened for a limited period of time.
A total of 37 different films are being shown in independent cinemas across Scotland as part of National Cinema Day.
The most popular showing is Greta Gerwig’s Barbie (below), with Disney’s Peter Pan and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer just behind.
Below is a list of screenings at some of the participating independent cinemas.
The majority of cinemas – unless otherwise stated – are offering tickets for just £3.
Aberdeenshire
The Arc Cinema (Peterhead): Barbie, Blue Beetle, Elemental, Gran Turismo, Haunted Mansion, Just Super (2022), Meg 2: The Trench, Oppenheimer, Peter Pan, Sound of Freedom, Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse, Strays, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, The Equalizer 3, Theater Camp.
The Arc is also screening 1986 classic Top Gun as part of its "back to the 80s" film festival, which will see a different 80s classic screened each week throughout September.
Angus
Montrose Playhouse: Barbie, Blue Beetle, Haunted Mansion, Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Oppenheimer, Peter Pan, The Equalizer 3.
Argyll & Bute
The Picture House (Campbeltown): Barbie, Haunted Mansion, Jurassic Park, Peter Pan.
Isle of Bute Discovery Centre Cinema (Rothesay): Haunted Mansion.
Borders
Pavillion Cinema (Galashiels): Barbie, Elemental, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny Oppenheimer, Peter Pan, Sound of Freedom, The Equalizer 3, Strays, Meg 2: The Trench, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem.
Dumfries & Galloway
Lonsdale Cinema (Annan): And Then Come the Nightjars, Barbie, Elemental, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Meg 2: The Trench, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Oppenheimer, Peter Pan, Sound of Freedom, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, The Equalizer 3.
Robert Burns Centre Film Theatre (Dumfries): Barbie, Oppenheimer. The cinema is also screening The Princess Bride (1987) as part of its ‘Tween Film Club’.
The Cinema (Newton Stewart): Peter Pan, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem. Tickets are priced at £4.
Dundee
Dundee Contemporary Arts (below) is the only independent cinema on this list to show films exclusively made outside of Hollywood.
It is showing documentary Hello, Bookstore (2022) which celebrates independent bookshops, Klokkenluider (2022), which stars Amit Shah and Jenna Coleman, French drama Passages (2023), Japanese animated short film The First Slam Dunk (2022) and French crime comedy The Innocent (2022).
Edinburgh
The Cameo: Barbie, Jurassic Park, Oppenheimer, Passages, Peter Pan, Scrapper, Theater Camp, The First Slam Dunk. There are several film screenings unique to The Cameo on Saturday, including Asteroid City (2023), Back To The Future (1985), National Theatre Live: Fleabag (2023), Talk to Me (2022) and Taxi Driver (1976).
The Scotsman Picture House: Barbie, Oppenheimer, Peter Pan, Scrapper. Tickets are priced at £6.
Falkirk
Hippodrome (Bo’ness): Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Scrapper, and the 2022 animation Just Super.
Glasgow
The Grosvenor Picture Theatre: Barbie, Oppenheimer, Jurassic Park, Peter Pan, Scrapper, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem.
Glasgow Film Theatre (below): Jurassic Park, Klokkenluider, Passages, Scrapper, Theater Camp. It will also be re-screening Lars von Trier’s Melancholia (2011), Jules Dassin’s Uptight (1968) and Disney’s live-action The Little Mermaid, which was released in May of this year.
Highlands
Eden Court (Inverness): Barbie, Joy Ride, Jurassic Park, Oppenheimer, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, and Theater Camp, in addition to screening the French film Lie With Me (2022).
Highland Cinema (Fort William): Barbie, Blue Beetle, Elemental, Gran Turismo, Haunted Mansion, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Peter Pan.
The cinema is also screening sci-fi horror classic Alien (1979), the first film it showed at its film club.
Merlin Cinema (Thurso): And Then Come The Nightjars, Barbie, Blue Beetle, Elemental, Gran Turismo, Haunted Mansion, Meg 2: The Trench, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Oppenheimer, Sound of Freedom, Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse, Strays, The Equalizer 3, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem.
Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse (below) and Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One are only showing on Saturday as part of National Cinema Day.
Inverclyde
Waterfront Cinema (Greenock): Barbie, Blue Beetle, Haunted Mansion, Oppenheimer, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, Theater Camp, The Equalizer 3.
Moray
Moray Playhouse (Elgin): Barbie, Blue Beetle, Haunted Mansion, Jurassic Park, Peter Pan, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem.
Orkney Islands
Phoenix Cinema (Kirkwell): Peter Pan, Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse, Meg 2: The Trench.
Perth and Kinross
Perth Playhouse: Barbie, Blue Beetle, Elemental, Gran Turismo, Haunted Mansion, Meg 2: The Trench, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Oppenheimer, Peter Pan, Sound of Freedom, The Equalizer 3, Theater Camp, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem.
Perth Playhouse is the only cinema listed to be screening The Blackening (2023) on National Cinema Day.
In addition to these, the cinema is also screening classics Hamlet (1948) with Laurence Olivier, Rear Window (1954) and The Patriot (2000).
The Birks Cinema (Aberfeldy): And Then Come The Nightjars, Jurassic Park, Oppenheimer. Tickets are priced at just £2.50.
Stirling
MacRoberts Arts Centre (Stirling): And Then Come The Nightjars, Barbie, Oppenheimer, Peter Pan, Theater Camp.
The cinema is also offering free workshops before and after screenings where visitors can make their own film cell keyrings.
Visitors can pick their own film cell from a selection of old advert film reels, using a lightbox to see the film, before cutting the film cell and creating a keyring.
Daniel Livingstone, the artist behind the project, told The National: “Looking through old film is a lovely thing to do, whilst also letting young people see how films used to be projected onto the screen.”
More information about National Cinema Day can be found here.
