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Doctor Who and Dr Strangelove lined up for David Lean Cinema
The David Lean Cinema has partnered with National Theatre Live to bring their star-studded stage productions to the big screen, and the programming begins with stage shows featuring two very different “doctors”. The stage-to-screen collaboration begins next week, on Wednesday … Continue reading
Help David Lean Cinema get in right Spirit for 30th anniversary
The David Lean Cinema in Croydon Clocktower will be celebrating its 30th anniversary next Monday with a suitably classic film screening and some special guests. Croydon’s much-loved independent cinema will be marking the occasion with a classic David Lean film. … Continue reading
Ten years on, cinema campaigners celebrate lasting triumph
Last week saw a memorable conclusion to the 10th anniversary events at the David Lean Cinema, where the doughty troup of volunteers were celebrating the re-opening and re-establishment of the venue under their care and management in 2014, following its … Continue reading
Oscar-winner Swinton in return visit to David Lean Cinema
Multi-award winning actress Tilda Swinton is to be a special guest at a screening of the acclaimed movie The Eternal Daughter at the David Lean Cinema on January 2. It’s the second visit of Oscar-winner Swinton to Croydon’s cherished independent … Continue reading
BAFTA-winner Scanlan to become David Lean Cinema’s Patron
BAFTA-award winning actress and screenwriter – and Inside Croydon reader – Joanna Scanlan is to become the Patron of the David Lean Cinema. The South Croydon resident will accept the official invitation to become the art-house cinema’s Patron at a … 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
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Link-up to Los Angeles to mark David Lean’s 25th anniversary
The David Lean Cinema, Croydon’s much-loved arts cinema, opened in the Clocktower on March 3, 1995, and a special screening next Tuesday will help celebrate the 25th anniversary. Heavenly Creatures, a psychological thriller from Peter Jackson, was the cinema’s first … Continue reading
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Zellweger as Judy, Knightly in trouble and Calamity with Doris
We are in a climate emergency, in case you hadn’t noticed. But in Australian eco-doc 2040, being screened at the David Lean Cinema next month, solutions that could help to save the planet and which are already readily available are … Continue reading
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Kenley Revival sees Spitfire flying into David Lean Cinema
Over the past 80 years, the sound of a Merlin engine, humming above Croydon and the rest southern England, has become a reassuring fixture of the summer. In more recent, more benign times, thanking that well-engineered purring sound, and the … Continue reading
Amazing Aretha will have them weeping in the cinema aisles
When a movie reviewer states, “Don’t bother with tissues. Bring a towel”, it ought to be clear that they have had an emotional experience at the cinema. Aretha Franklin, who died last year, regularly had that effect on people, and … Continue reading
Cinema offers a cosmopolitan selection of international movies
While Britain may, or may not, be turning its back on Europe at the end of March on Brexit Day, the David Lean Cinema’s programme for the following month serves as a demonstration that, as far as the movies are … Continue reading
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BAFTA Fellow Samuelson to attend David Lean screening
One of the most renowned figures associated with British film-making – Sir Sydney Samuelson – is coming to the David Lean Cinema next Tuesday, to introduce a screening of a recently restored film that his father produced in 1923. A … Continue reading
David Lean Cinema’s programme shows Globes’ new reach
With British performers and film-makers winning seven Golden Globes on Sunday, the screen industry in this country appears to be in rude health, and in Oscar month, the programme at the David Lean Cinema – with its new, cut-price ticketing … Continue reading
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‘Fairground ride with dodgy brakes’ is coming to David Lean
Nothing if not eclectic, May’s programme of movies at the David Lean Cinema in the Croydon Clocktower spans Ingmar Bergman’s rendition of a Mozart opera, some Scandi-noir set in Cairo, a Japanese stop-action animation, and the Australian outback in the … Continue reading
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Circuses, Churchill and Clapton: busy times at the David Lean
Now this may be apocryphal, but when the Rolling Stones’ Ronnie Wood heard that Showtime was to make a documentary about his old friend Eric Clapton entitled A Life In 12 Bars, he’s supposed to have said, “That can’t be … Continue reading
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£5 tickets for under-25s go with a rush at David Lean Cinema
The David Lean Cinema is introducing “rush tickets” for the under-25s from January. “Unfortunately, we have had to increase ticket prices by 50p to £8.50 for standard tickets, and £7 for concessions. However, in order to encourage younger patrons, we … Continue reading
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Dench, Rush and Boyega are David Lean stars for October
Tickets are now on sale for the David Lean Cinema in October, which offers a typically eclectic selection of movies, including Halloween screenings, Judi Dench reprising her role as Queen Victoria, Geoffrey Rush giving yet another outstanding performance in his … Continue reading
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BRIT School film-makers get showcased at David Lean
The David Lean Cinema Campaign has announced a partnership with the BRIT School which will see one of the best films made by students in the school’s film and media production department screened before selected features as the “BRIT School … Continue reading
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Jennifer Lawrence is a Joy to behold but she may not clean up
“Why would Jennifer Lawrence – the world’s highest paid actress – take the role of a divorced mother who invented a miracle mop?” That may be a question, posed by the programme-makers at the David Lean Cinema, to which their … Continue reading
Eva Schloss to give talk to mark Holocaust Memorial Day
Croydon will honour the memory of the victims of the Holocaust and genocidal events which have happened in the past 70 years with a public candle-lighting ceremony and an opportunity to sign the book of remembrance, from noon on Holocaust … Continue reading
