Your
Belmont
Memories

“I attended the sing along version of calamity Jane with my teenage daughter several years ago. It was her 100th cinema (various cinemas) visit of the year. It was a great atmosphere with lots of people dressed up and signing. My daughter was mortified when I started singing!!”

"The Belmont was, and hopefully will be again, a civilised place to go. Whether special events such as Christmas, Valentine's, etc or outings with a language class to the French Film Festival, it was always a good evening. The staff were unfailingly nice and the whole experience was more personal than going to one of the multiplexes."

"I , like my husband Jim, have attended the Belmont as a regular, and I mean regular, since it opened in 2000. The first film we saw together was 'Memento'. Since then I revelled in seeing alternative, non mainstream and foreign language films there. Almadovar was a delight; one Polish film at least; the French-Hungarian lady who shot naturalistic scenes of street life; old classics such as Casablanca and even Brief Encounter, plus small budget gems like Boiling Point. My own son Sam, a former amateur film maker, had a showing of his brilliant and quirky Occasional Monsters, back in 2008. The Belmont was a huge part of my life. If everyone had gone there as often as me, we might not be in this mess. The staff are/were charming and friendly. Somehow someday it must come back. If it does, please use it or lose it."

"I’ve been climbing pretty much all my life. When ‘Free Solo’ with Alex Honnold came out, watching it at the Belmont was the first time I’d seen my sport on the big screen. It was not yet even in the Olympics. No other cinema cared to show films like these - but the Belmont did."