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Birmingham's electric cinema has just reopened! In fact it did so on Friday. This is excellent news. I loved the old place. It has the real old cinema feel to the place. Well it was an old cinema! It has now been refurbished and given a full on art deco feel. As soon as my ankle is a bit better I think I will be taking a visit to their.

The cinema is Birmingham's oldest and opened in 1909 so is almost a 100 years old. It was such a shame that it shut down in 2003. I was really concerned that it would either get turned into a very modern cinema or something completely different (such as houses). So this news is very pleasing. One thing I doubt they will continue is the excellent email I used to get off them telling me about the films they were showing. They mostly show independent films and I saw the excellent Spider there. Ooohh I hope they still sell cakes!

More:
+ BBC Article -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/birmingham/features/2004/03/electric_cinema.shtml
+ The Electric Website - http://www.theelectric.co.uk/