Focal Point Cinema (Feilding)
Address: 81 Manchester Street Fielding or P O Box 208, Fielding Contact Person: Julie Bell, General Manager 027 6610 173 Phone: (Feilding) 06 323 0218 Email: [email protected] Website: www.focalpointcinema.co.nz |
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Details
Capacity: 16 + 40
Screen: Two screens, no 3D
Sound: Dolby digital
Seating: Comfortable and contemporary
Cafe, with an extensive menu and good atmosphere: Liquor licence.
Accessibility: Good, level access
Capacity: 16 + 40
Screen: Two screens, no 3D
Sound: Dolby digital
Seating: Comfortable and contemporary
Cafe, with an extensive menu and good atmosphere: Liquor licence.
Accessibility: Good, level access
Geoff's Review
Most recent visit: May 2022
The Focal Point opened in November 2007, in a town which hadn't had a cinema for over 20 years. When I last visited, on a cool autumn day, there was a steady stream of patrons to the cafe and the cinema, heading toward one of the 50 sessions offered every week.
The cinema is sited in the central shopping area of Fielding, which resembles a small English town with an Edwardian theme (cobbles, wrought-iron street lamps, street trees etc). Indeed, Feilding has been bestowed with the New Zealand's Most Beautiful Town award 15 times. Population is around 16,000 and growing, and the town has bred both All Blacks (the Whitelock brothers, Aaron Smith ) and humourists (Murray Ball, Tom Scott).
Free street parking for cinema patrons is a bonus. There is a strong local and loyal audience, but it also draws on a wider affluent population, including university folk from Massey University in Palmerston North. As with other Focal Point venues, going to a film is usually accompanied by a meal from an extensive, contemporary menu (full menu 9am-3pm; cinema snacks All Day).
The Focal Point in Feilding does live up to its big city-style promise of providing "Your boutique Cinema and Cafe experience".
Film offerings are primarily art house (6-7 titles weekly) and family or mainstream children's fare; the kind of mix you encounter in most independent cinemas around the country.
See also: Focal Point Levin, Hastings and Palmerston North.
Most recent visit: May 2022
The Focal Point opened in November 2007, in a town which hadn't had a cinema for over 20 years. When I last visited, on a cool autumn day, there was a steady stream of patrons to the cafe and the cinema, heading toward one of the 50 sessions offered every week.
The cinema is sited in the central shopping area of Fielding, which resembles a small English town with an Edwardian theme (cobbles, wrought-iron street lamps, street trees etc). Indeed, Feilding has been bestowed with the New Zealand's Most Beautiful Town award 15 times. Population is around 16,000 and growing, and the town has bred both All Blacks (the Whitelock brothers, Aaron Smith ) and humourists (Murray Ball, Tom Scott).
Free street parking for cinema patrons is a bonus. There is a strong local and loyal audience, but it also draws on a wider affluent population, including university folk from Massey University in Palmerston North. As with other Focal Point venues, going to a film is usually accompanied by a meal from an extensive, contemporary menu (full menu 9am-3pm; cinema snacks All Day).
The Focal Point in Feilding does live up to its big city-style promise of providing "Your boutique Cinema and Cafe experience".
Film offerings are primarily art house (6-7 titles weekly) and family or mainstream children's fare; the kind of mix you encounter in most independent cinemas around the country.
See also: Focal Point Levin, Hastings and Palmerston North.