Film locations and the magic of cinema
We walked past the bandstand on our way to the pictures, intrigued by a pair of plimsolls just hanging there. On arrival at the Orpheus Cinema, we walked in through the lobby, paid five euros each for our tickets and settled down to watch a film. It was James Bond and For Your Eyes Only . Unlike Mr Grigg, I’m not a huge Bond fan, even though I share a birthday with Sean Connery. All those scantily-clad women, machismo, male chauvinism and car chases leave me cold. And Roger Moore makes me cringe. But tonight I was prepared to make an exception. Because this particular motion picture, you see, was filmed on Corfu and was the last showing of the season for a new English language film club. The previous week it was Some Like It Hot , one of my all-time favourites. But it clashed with something else so, sadly, Marilyn and Co didn’t get a look-in. Pity really. Still, nobody's perfect. For the first time, I actually enjoyed a James Bond film, seein...