This month is notable for including the 10th anniversary of the reopening night of the David Lean Cinema, with the screening of Basically, Johnny Moped on March 27, 2014. Inside Croydon was there!
The Save David Lean Cinema Campaign is marking this with three consecutive David Lean-related screenings from March 23.
The latter is a very special opportunity because it has never been shown in a British cinema and probably never will be again.
Adrian Winchester, of the Save David Lean Cinema Campaign, told Inside Croydon: “It’s a Spanish documentary, despite mostly being English language, and we’re fortunate to have made contact with Patricia Cruzado – a senior PR coordinator at Warner Bros Discovery in Spain – who had some involvement in the film and shared our enthusiasm in relation to an exclusive anniversary screening at the David Lean Cinema.
“It’s of course very sad that Nostromo was never made, but the documentary shows that Lean’s determination to take on formidable projects was undiminished during the last five years of his life, and he persevered even when battling throat cancer.”
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