Back to the ’80s as classic film gets first Caithness cinema screening
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MORE than 30 years after its release, a classic film from the 1980s is getting its first ever cinema screening in Caithness.
When Back to the Future was released in 1985, the county was without a venue for showing movies and the Moving Picture Show mobile cinema had yet to arrive. That meant people had to travel to see it or wait for it to become available on video.
Now local film enthusiast Darren Manson has organised a special screening of the much-loved movie under the auspices of Moving Picture Show, which became a property of the Cinema For Thurso archive in 2017 and is now run as an annual event.
Darren said: "For most Caithness folk then the only way to see the latest movies was on a rented VHS video tape and a night in with the telly, and so there are many films from the mid-’80s and much of the ’90s that have never been shown on the big screen in a local cinema.
"Many films really should be seen on the big screen as the only way to convey the full scale and excitement of the movie experience."
The film is being presented with a full supporting programme from the mid-’80s.
Darren explained: "I found that showing a full programme from the time in which the main feature came out makes these events much more enjoyable for the audience who love being immersed in the period material.
"It reaches into their sense of nostalgia and makes the film more complete to be screened the way it originally was or would have been back in the day."
Back to the Future had been rejected 41 times before finally getting the green light to go into production.
It follows Marty McFly (Michael J Fox) who is forced to escape from the present when terrorists shoot his friend Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) while testing a time machine created from a DeLorean car.
He ends up back in 1955 where he accidentally interrupts the moment that his parents were intended to speak for the first time. Realising the drastic changes his presence has made to his own timeline, Marty goes to the 1955 Doc for help to correct the damage before he fades from history.
The Moving Picture Show ’80s Classic event screening will take place at the Merlin Cinema in Thurso on Friday (September 27) at 8.30pm. Tickets are now on sale.
