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The History of British Cinema: 1985 |
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18/3 - |
British Film Year is launched with the presentation to the Queen of David Lean's adaptation of E. M. Forster's A Passage to India. [ADD] |
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25/5 - |
End of the final collecting period for the British Film (Eady) Levy. [ADD] |
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American Multi-Cinema (AMC) opens the first multiplex cinema complex in the UK at Milton Keynes. Called The Point, it has 10 screens and 2,038 seats. [ADD] |
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16/11 - |
Stephen Frears' My Beautiful Laundrette, which was originally produced for Channel Four television, is released. Gordon Warnecke and Daniel Day-Lewis star as two youths from South London – one black, one white – who embark on a homosexual affair. [ADD] |
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– In ‘British Film Year,’ cinema attendance declines to an all-time low of 54 million, less than one visit per year per head of population. [ADD] |
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Other Key British Films of 1985 |
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Dance With a Stranger (Mike Newell) [ADD] |
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DreamChild (Gavin Millar) [ADD] |
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Insignificance (Nicolas Roeg) [ADD] |
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Letter to Brezhnev (Chris Bernard) [ADD] |
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Revolution (Hugh Hudson) [ADD] |
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A Room With a View (James Ivory) [ADD] |
