Stanley’s Film Club is offering a special 20 per cent discount on the price of all new memberships booked with the South Norwood-based weekly cinema during July.
As they consolidate their programme with their regular weekly screenings – which in August will include Oscar-winners La La Land and Manchester By The Sea – they are also rolling out a Bring Along Baby screening, of Hidden Figures, which will be shown at Harris Academy South Norwood on the morning of Thursday, August 3.
Memberships start from £19.20, and offer two free tickets to a film of your choice, priority booking for all future screenings at Stanley’s Film Club, and £3 off every ticket you book for the next 12 months.
For details of membership of the Stanley’s Film Club, click here.
For listings of the Stanley Film Club’s screenings for the remainder of this month, July, click here
All films are at 8pm, £8 adv / £10 doors (£3 discount for members) and held at SNCC 10 South Norwood Hill, London, SE25 6AB unless otherwise stated.
To book for any of the films listed here, click here
Stanley’s Film Club programme: August
Wed Aug 2 LA LA LAND (12a)
2016 Music/Drama/Com 128min, Director: Damien Chazelle
Stars: Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone
Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone co-star in this musical about a jazz pianist and an aspiring actress, both struggling to make ends meet in a city famous for crushing hopes and breaking hearts find themselves on a tale of passion, heartbreak and self-discovery.
Thu Aug 3 HIDDEN FIGURES (PG) (11am)
2016 Bio/Drama/History 127min, Director: Theodore Melfi
Stars: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae
A Bring Along Baby screening at Harris Academy South Norwood, Cumberlow Ave, SE256AE
Bring your baby and indulge in a movie, with appropriate sound levels, baby-changing areas, coffee delivery service and plenty of space for buggies. Hidden Figures is the true story of three brilliant African-American women at NASA — Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe), the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn (Glen Powell) into orbit, a stunning achievement that restored the nation’s confidence, turned around the Space Race and galvanised the world.
Wed Aug 9 ROCKERS (15)
1978 Music/Drama/Com 100min Director: Ted Bafaloukos
Stars: Leroy ‘Horsemouth’ Wallace, Richard ‘Dirty Harry’ Hall
Horsemouth is in the business of selling records but when the local mafia steal his motorbike, he and his friends concoct a daring scheme to get it back. They plot to end the gangsters’ reign and to finally restore justice to the people of Kingston.
Wed Aug 16 A MAN CALLED OVE (15)
2016 Com/Drama 116min Director: Hannes Holm
Stars: Rolf Lassgård, Bahar Pars
Ove (Rolf Lassgård) is the quintessential angry old man next door. An isolated retiree with strict principles and a short fuse, who spends his days enforcing block association rules and visiting his wife’s grave. After a boisterous young family moves in next door an unlikely friendship forms.
Wed Aug 23 MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (15)
2016 Drama 137min Director: Kenneth Lonergan
Stars: Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams
Nominated for Best Picture at the 2017 Academy Awards with compelling performances from Affleck and Williams, writer-director Kenneth Lonergan’s haunting family drama is a true portrait of grief when a depressed uncle is asked to take care of his teenage nephew after the boy’s father dies.against the ethereal backdrop of the Massachusetts winter.
Wed Aug 30 THE HANDMAIDEN (18) (7:30pm)
2016 Drama/Mystery/Rom 144 mins, Director: Park Chan-wook
Stars: Min-hee Kim, Jung-woo Ha
From the mind of Park Chan-wook, the director of the unforgettable cult-classic Oldboy, comes his latest mysterious psychodrama. Set in 1930s South Korea and Japan, a woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress but she is secretly involved in a plot to defraud her.
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