Sands Films, a London movie studio facing closure because of rising rents is seeking help from small investors
In the old laundry room skilled seamstresses are finely stitching costumes for this autumn's production of Anne Boleyn at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. In the studio Keira Knightley is rehearsing for director Joe Wright's big-screen adaptation of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. In the basement of the Grade II-listed former granary facing the Thames a volunteer archivist pores over a unique reference collection of 19th century images, photographs and magazine clippings. Upstairs, crushed into a warren of rooms, lies an unparalleled collection of costumes used in films such as Little Dorrit, A Passage to India, Pride and Prejudice and The Young Victoria.
Yet this old curiosity shop of the UK film industry is threatened with destruction by landlords keen to turf out Sands Films and redevelop it, maybe into another Tesco Express,...
In the old laundry room skilled seamstresses are finely stitching costumes for this autumn's production of Anne Boleyn at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. In the studio Keira Knightley is rehearsing for director Joe Wright's big-screen adaptation of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. In the basement of the Grade II-listed former granary facing the Thames a volunteer archivist pores over a unique reference collection of 19th century images, photographs and magazine clippings. Upstairs, crushed into a warren of rooms, lies an unparalleled collection of costumes used in films such as Little Dorrit, A Passage to India, Pride and Prejudice and The Young Victoria.
Yet this old curiosity shop of the UK film industry is threatened with destruction by landlords keen to turf out Sands Films and redevelop it, maybe into another Tesco Express,...
- 7/29/2011
- by Patrick Collinson
- The Guardian - Film News
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