Culture: Entertainment to Lift the Christmas Spirit ; Christmas at Tyneside Cinema Means a Stockingful of Treats, From a Double-Bill of 'Live' Opera and Ballet to Traditional Family Favourites.

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IT doesn't get much more festive than Tyneside Cinema this month. The homely Newcastle venue offers a perfect retreat for film fans from the seasonal hustle and bustle with some old classics, like It's A Wonderful Life, and some very new ideas.

For the first time the revamped cinema is making full use of the very latest technology to bring two live link-ups with the Royal Opera House in London.

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Culture: Entertainment to Lift the Christmas Spirit ; Christmas at Tyneside Cinema Means a Stockingful of Treats, From a Double-Bill of 'Live' Opera and Ballet to Traditional Family Favourites.

In a real coup for the cinema, it will screen festive classic ballet The Nutcracker and the opera Hansel and Gretel, beamed direct from the capital into it...

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