Birmingham Cinemas

[A Sparks]

The Futurist Cinema in John Bright Street has been given Grade 2 listed status...

An old Birmingham cinema that spent years as a strip club and shisha bar has been granted Grade II listed status.
The Futurist, on John Bright Street, has been listed by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), aknowledging that it is of special interest.
The old cinema, built in 1919, was the first in Birmingham to show a 'talkie' film after years of silent shows, screening The Singing Fool back in 1929.

 

[Richard Dye]

The Futurist Cinema in John Bright Street has been given Grade 2 listed status...

An old Birmingham cinema that spent years as a strip club and shisha bar has been granted Grade II listed status.
The Futurist, on John Bright Street, has been listed by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), aknowledging that it is of special interest.
The old cinema, built in 1919, was the first in Birmingham to show a 'talkie' film after years of silent shows, screening The Singing Fool back in 1929.
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What a beautiful building and still standing at over 100 years!

 

[Donbogen]

Loved going to the Futurist with a date
after the movie pop into the Grapes a no trills pub
i knew how to spoil em LOL

 

[handlebar]

Only went to the Futurist once to see a Cinemascope film. Can't remember the name but it was my one and only encounter with 'Perspecta' directional stereophonic sound. Thought it most impressive and better than any of the later stereo systems.

 

[Dionysius//88]

I saw my first horror film here and I was underage shhhhhhhhh yes folks underage can yo believe it the film was It Conquered The World ? Featuring Peter Graves and just to think a year earlier or so I was watching him in Fury on the tv stories about a horse .

 

[John L]

I took my now wife there to see "Chariots of Fire". It was very sad to see the uses the old cinema was put to, after it had stopped showing films.

 

[A Sparks]

I took my now wife there to see "Chariots of Fire". It was very sad to see the uses the old cinema was put to, after it had stopped showing films.

I know what you mean but at least the building has survived.
I've never been inside but am very familiar with the place as I used to work part-time at the old Ikon Gallery when they were in John Bright Street.