References in Popular Culture
The Phoenix has also 'starred' in many films, TV series and photo shoots, providing the backdrop for anything from educational videos to fashion shoots to TV series and big feature films.
In 1999, the Phoenix featured in This Morning's fashion section to go with 1950s retro fashion. In the same year, teen magazine Sugar shot one of its photo stories there and Marie Claire magazine interviewed 'the five most important women in the UK film business'. James Ferman, the former chairman of the British Board of Film Classification, took a seat to be interviewed by Joan Bakewell for her BBC series My Generation. In 2001 the Phoenix popped up in the new series of Virgin Mobile phone ads and it also appears in the video for the Scissor Sisters track "I Don't Feel Like Dancin'"
Among the cinema's biggest dramatic appearances were in TV comedy in the remake of the classic series Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased), with Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer. The anti-hero of Channel 4's off-beat comedy series Black Books came in when his new alarm system locked him out of his own shop and Jeremy tries to impress Zahra on a visit to The Phoenix in series 7, episode 3 of Peep Show.
Neil Jordan chose the Phoenix as an early 20th century cinema for a scene in his 1994 box-office hit, Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles. Jordan returned to the Phoenix to film scenes in his adaptation of Graham Greene's novel The End of the Affair.
The biggest film shoot at the cinema so far was for the British comedy Mr Love, made in 1985 starring Barry Jackson. Set in a local 'flea-pit' and following the adventures of its projectionist, the Phoenix was a major star of the film for which the Phoenix's chief projectionist served as a technical adviser.
The Phoenix has also appeared in the films Nine (Rob Marshall, 2009) and Nowhere Boy (Sam Taylor-Wood, 2009).
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