Simran Hans previews Manchester’s first pop-up cinema, The Film Night.

Attention! The pop-up cinema has finally arrived in Manchester!  Cinephiles based in the England’s own rainy city need no longer lament the absence of quirky pop up cinemas like Hackney’s Hot Tub Cinema in East London and Lexi Cinema’s The Nomad series.

The Film Night, an immersive pop-up cinema night (complete with themed after-party) returns next month as part of Creative Tourist’s Manchester Weekender.

The Film Night will screen David Lean’s 1945 beloved post-war romance, Brief Encounter.  The film follows an illicit affair between housewife Laura Jesson (Celia Johnson) and handsome (married) doctor Alec Harvey (Trevor Howard).  All thundering steam trains and passionate slow-burn, and set in a foggy railway station heavy with secrets, Brief Encounter is an exquisitely delicious exercise in romance and restraint.

Brief Encounter will screened in MOSI’s 1830 Warehouse, the world’s first railway…