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Category Archives: Cinema
Fairfield Halls offers some Easter movie magic for just £2
A money-saving cinema club, offering films on the big screen for just £2 per ticket, is coming to the Fairfield Halls this Easter, as the borough’s arts centre looks to offer fun and entertainment on a budget for hard-pressed Croydon … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Ashcroft Theatre, Cinema, Comedy, Fairfield Halls
Tagged Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon, Easter, Fairfield Halls, Family Film Club
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Kurosawa’s Dersu Uzala, Ruskin House Screen Club, Mar 24
Posted in Art, Cinema, Ruskin House
Tagged Akira Kurosawa, Dersu Uzala, Ruskin House, Ruskin House Screen Club
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Ruskin House Screen Club: The Battle of Algiers, Dec 9
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Tagged Ken Loach, Ruskin House, Ruskin House Screen Club, The Battle of Algiers
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Soy Cuba screening, Ruskin House Screen club, Nov 18
Posted in Cinema, History, Ruskin House
Tagged Martin Scorsese, Ruskin House, Ruskin House Screen Club, Soy Cuba
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Fostering service appeal goes to the movies with Childhood
Childhood, a brief, brilliant and beautiful short film, has been released by Croydon Council in a ground-breaking national collaboration with 55 other authorities across the country in an effort to recruit much-needed foster carers. There are more than 70,000 children … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Services, Cinema, Croydon Council, Education, Schools
Tagged Childhood, Croydon, Croydon Council, Foster, fostering, London Borough of Croydon
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Podcast: Will Travers on climate challenges and the Mane Event
Will Travers has been involved in wildlife conservation all his life, from the moment when his parents, actors Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers, took him as a youngster off to Kenya for a year-long adventure to film the acclaimed movie … Continue reading
Mike Leigh’s Peterloo, Ruskin House Screen Club, Sep 16
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Fairfield Halls finally gets a starring role in hit show The Crown
Our arts correspondent, BELLA BARTOCK, on how a touch of Hollywood glamour has come to sarf London The Fairfield Halls, the council-owned arts complex, has been used as a location by the cast and crew of Netflix’s hit series The … Continue reading
Founder of Secret Cinema makes bid to move in to Allders
EXCLUSIVE: The old department store could be about to get a new lease of life with ‘immersive’ performances of movies such as Dirty Dancing, Blade Runner or Guardians of the Galaxy. By STEVEN DOWNES Fabien Riggall, the man who has … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Allders, Art, Business, Cinema, CPO, Croydon Council, Dance, Music, Planning, Secret Cinema, Theatre, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Allders, Conservative, Croydon Council, Fabian Riggall, Hammersfield, Hammerson, London Borough of Croydon, Secret Cinema, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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David Lean Cinema to stage Ukrainian emergency fund-raiser
There is a special charity preview of Olga at the David Lean Cinema tomorrow evening, the result of a partnership between 606 Distribution and the BFI, with the support of the UK Cinema Association. With each ticket sold, a donation … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Cinema, David Lean Cinema Campaign
Tagged David Lean Cinema, Olga, Save the David Lean Cinema Campaign, Ukraine
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David Lean Cinema brings Oscar movie CODA to the big screen
The David Lean Cinema is bringing Oscar-winning film CODA to the big screen this month, with screenings that will cater for those with hearing difficulties. As a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults), 17-year-old Ruby (Emilia Jones in her first film … Continue reading
When You’re Young: film makers get the bands back together
RICHARD PACITTI got a phone call recently that struck a chord… “Are you free to meet up with a bunch of old punks?” It was an old pal on the phone. “I have been talking with someone called Griff who … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Cinema, Music, Pubs
Tagged Captain Sensible, Croydon, Johnny Moped, Richard Pacitti, The Damned, The Greyhound, The Star
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Under The Flyover: star actor Joanna Scanlan interviewed
Joanna Scanlan is the South Croydon-based award-winning actor who has starred in hit TV series including The Thick Of It, Doc Martin and The Larkins, and who this week was at the David Lean Cinema for a screening of her … Continue reading
Lean times in January for the Clocktower’s arthouse cinema
The uncertainty and concerns over the Omicron strain of covid-19, and the dithering by central government over the measures to be taken by the hospitality and entertainment sectors, has prompted one venue to take its fate into its own hands … Continue reading
Spencer saga starts a right royal month at David Lean Cinema
As the soap opera that is the House of Windsor heads into its latest – last? – chapters, with constant and unresolved controversies over Meghan Markle and Prince Andrew, so along comes the latest movie that seeks to feed the … Continue reading
Time to ‘go on a journey’ as David Lean Cinema re-opens
Multiple Oscar-winning movie Nomadland will delight the audience when they return to the David Lean Cinema as it re-opens on Tuesday following 20 months of covid lockdown restrictions. “We will be screening a range of award-winning films from the past … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Cinema, David Lean Cinema Campaign
Tagged David Lean Cinema, David Lean Cinema Campaign
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David Lean Cinema announces Oct 26 as reopening date
The David Lean Cinema, the much-cherished local arts institution in the Croydon Clocktower, will start showing films again at the end of this month – more than 18 months after being forced to close due to the covid-19 pandemic. “This … Continue reading
Sundown Sessions offer free music and cinema in the park
The Crystal Palace Festival team has launched a series of free, mid-week Sundown Sessions at the Crystal Palace Bowl, in conjunction with the South Facing Festival. The South Facing Festival got underway at the weekend with packed audiences to see … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Cinema, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Bowl, Crystal Palace Park, London Mozart Players, Music, South Facing Festival
Tagged Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace Bowl, Crystal Palace Festival, Crystal Palace Park, Crystal Palace Park Trust, South Facing Festival, Sundown Sessions
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Trinity sixth-former lands role in Netflix’s latest teen series
Will Hardy, a sixth-former at Trinity School, has been cast in Heartstopper, an adaptation of Alice Oseman’s graphic novels which is to be screened by Netflix. Hardy was selected after an open audition in which 10,000 young actors took part, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Cinema, Trinity School
Tagged Alice Oseman, Heartstopper, Netflix, Trinity School, Will Hardy
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David Lean Cinema postpones reopening until the autumn
It’s been a tough 15 months for the movie enthusiasts and volunteers at the David Lean Cinema, which has been closed since the first covid-19 lockdown was announced in March 2020. For the arthouse cinema in the Croydon Clocktower, with … Continue reading
