With some sadness the doors of the Assosa Showcase cinema have closed for the very last time. Opened to all VSO volunteers and Ethiopian friends in February 2008, it started controversially when the "wrong" Sweeny Todd was presented to an expectant crowd! Not the Hollywood Todd of Johnny Depp, but the - rather less sexy - BBC Todd of Ray Winstone! Over the two years a variety of Ethiopians, volunteers, NGO staff and visiting Ferengi have graced the armchairs and sofa, watching Oscar winners and nominees (No Country for Old Men, The Wrestler), fun and adventure (Pirates of the Carribean, Hancock, National Treasure), animated classics (Wall-E, Finding Nemo) to visual eye-poppers (The Matrix and The Matrix Reloaded). Nothing more than a borrowed LCD projector, some rearranged furniture and a laptop plugged into a stereo system; and
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