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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Alfie Packham and Guardian readers

‘I’ve never had a cinematic experience like it’: readers’ memories of Prince Charles Cinema

More than 150,000 people have signed a petition to save the Prince Charles Cinema.
More than 150,000 people have signed a petition to save the Prince Charles Cinema. Photograph: Vuk Valcic/Rex/Shutterstock

Just off London’s heaving Leicester Square, around the corner from M&M’s World, is the cult film venue the Prince Charles Cinema. Converted into a cinema in 1969, it is much loved for its screenings of hard-to-find films and counts directors Paul Thomas Anderson, John Waters and Quentin Tarantino among its fans.

At the time of writing, more than 150,000 people have signed a petition launched by the cinema, who say its landlord Zedwell LSQ Ltd (owned by property developers Criterion Capital) wants to alter the lease, which would enable it to shut down the business.

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