2009 – Cinema St Andrews https://cinemastandrews.org.uk The history of cinema within St Andrews, the history of cinema through St Andrews Mon, 04 Jun 2012 14:45:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 Filming of Never Let Me Go https://cinemastandrews.org.uk/production/filming-of-never-let-me-go/ Sat, 01 Oct 2011 16:58:43 +0000 http://cinemastandrews.org.uk/?p=57 Never Let Me Go takes place at the Andrew Melville Hall in St Andrews.]]>  

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Filming for Never Let Me Go (2010) took  place at the Andrew Melville Hall in St Andrews, an architectural exemplar of New Brutalist style designed by Glasgow architect James Stirling in the 1960s.

Directed by Mark Romanek and staring Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley and Andrew Garfield, the shoot in the North Haugh of St Andrews took one day in July 2009. Notably, Kazuo Ishiguro, who wrote the novel upon which the film was based, is also a St Andrews honorary graduate.

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