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Cinema in the city, goodbye to the project

L'Adige, 7 October 10

Balzer: "There are private investors." Ariston as a fallback

Merano. The dawn of the dreams of celluloid is increasingly remote. Tomorrow is the village school launched the new season of Film / Associnema, a partnership that is committed to fill the void of the big screen in the city but for the return of a real cinema the future is dark. At dawn the possibility of reopening the Apollo (excessive costs), without the interest of private investors in the City is unable to expose themselves. "The intention to work for the reopening of a cinema with multilingual programming" is written line of the program of the bargain. However, the reality of the facts in the face slams lack of private investors and the fierce competition of the halls of Bolzano. In half an hour's car was beautiful sitting in comfortable chairs, having failed to elect the film between the different films. In Merano cinephiles, orphans of Italian cinema from 2004 and a German last year, is the commendable work of support groups, but for obvious reasons, are able to offer films released several months before or retrospectives dedicated to particular lines, directors and actors. And local "lent" to the cinema, as the auditorium of the village school, rather than the great hall of the center of culture and civic hall of the former baths, living room features far removed from modern multiplex. A niche film or "second window" is, in short, that offered today to Merano. A bid that the administration will seek to improve, but without illusions: no mention of new cinema. "We're looking at - said the deputy mayor George Balzer, head of the junta in Italian culture - the possibility to exploit the Ariston. The hall is owned by the Province and is used as a lecture hall by the Institute German business. The idea is to agree with school leaders share a room, for example by offering to use film in the evening. " It then faded the idea of \u200b\u200breopening the Apollo, Via Matteotti room that housed up to 2009 films in German. For Apollo had shown interest this past spring, the Bolzano Filmclub who had been in contact with the council asking for support, including economic, for which the junta had left space opened up. To stop the dreams we have made the required 350 000 € at the time for the sale of the Raffeisen Leasing, which would have had to add the costs of remediation. Too many cases for municipal and obviously also for any business. "If the opportunity were to materialize Ariston - Balzarini continues - it will not be a private cinema footprint. The City would take place through associations and cooperatives. The structure of the Ariston has been engineered to function as a cinema, remain to be addressed so the only costs for the equipment that the administration could take over. As for the possibility of buying a room by the municipality to be entrusted to a private management then it would be a street only beatable if you come along some entrepreneurs. But for now no one has knocked on the door. " The idea, then, is to provide the associations that offer screenings of a room more suited to the needs, making reference to the nationality they may have a more continuous and comprehensive programming. This is now a realistic prospect of cinema in Merano. For the science fiction look elsewhere.