Tanya Gold Tanya Gold

Drive-in cinemas are back – but for how long?

Tanya Gold looks at the rise and fall of drive-ins – something we never had in Britain but cinema made us imagine we did

With very few films being released, drive-ins like this one from Luna Cinema screen family-style hits with dancing and dinosaurs, the classic fare of the nostalgic or depressed 
issue 18 July 2020

Pandemic creates the oddest phenomena: here, for instance, is a British drive-in cinema. They exist for people who won’t go to a conventional cinema for fear of infection, which sounds like a film in itself. But that is the charm: attending a drive-in cinema feels like living inside a film, because every British drive-in cinema until now has failed.

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