Savoy Cinema, Movie theater in Lenton, England
Savoy Cinema is a movie theater with three screens housed in a curved art deco building on Derby Road in the Lenton area of Nottingham. The facade is rounded and stands out clearly from the surrounding street, making it easy to spot from a distance.
The building was designed in 1935 by architect Reginald William Gaze Cooper and opened as a cinema with over a thousand seats. The first film shown was Flirtation Walk, an American musical released the previous year.
The Savoy Cinema sits close to the University of Nottingham, and students make up a large part of its regular audience. The mix of big releases and independent films gives the place a relaxed, neighbourhood feel rather than a purely commercial one.
The cinema is on a main road and easy to reach on foot or by bus from Nottingham city centre and the university. It is worth arriving a few minutes early, as the area around Derby Road can get busy in the evenings.
The Savoy Cinema was used as a filming location for the 1960 British film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, a landmark of the British New Wave movement. This connection to film history is rarely marked inside the building, making it a quiet detail for those who know where to look.
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