Kino-Teatr

The Kinema Palace opened on Norman Road on 5 November 1913 — the town's first purpose-built cinema — became the Kinema, then the Curzon behind a 1952 façade, went dark in 1977, and stayed dark until Russell Baker, an artist, and Olga Mamonova, a writer and art historian, revived it as the Kino-Teatr in 2015: cinema, gallery and café in one restored room, with the couple's Baker-Mamonova collection of twentieth-century Russian art — a gallery they have run since 2001 — woven through the programme. The building survived the bomb that destroyed the pub next door in 1943; longevity is apparently structural here. St Leonards' revival has an auditorium, and this is it.