Tag Archives: Save David Lean Cinema Campaign
Swinton’s surprise appearance boosts David Lean volunteers
Joanna Scanlan, the award-winning actress and recently appointed patron of Croydon’s David Lean Cinema, delighted the audience at a screening of The Girl with a Pearl Earring this week when she arrived accompanied by friend and Oscar-winning colleague, Tilda Swinton. … Continue reading
In Quixote, Gilliam has another great tilt at movie windmills
Orson Welles never did get round to making his movie version of Don Quixote. He started filming it in 1955 and was still talking about it just before he died in 1985. The Man of La Mancha, based on the … Continue reading
Elton and The Beatles have David Lean on song this summer
There was a time, at the height of Hollywood, when music biopics were about long-dead stars, the likes of band leader Glenn Miller and Yankee Doodle Dandy George M Cohan, when the studios could take massive liberties with reality in … Continue reading
Happy birthday, David Lean Cinema. And many happy returns
The drinks were on the Save the David Lean Cinema Campaign last week, as they celebrated five years since their return to the Clocktower’s arthouse venue. Movie-goers enjoyed a free drink and nibbles before the screening of Can You … Continue reading
Tales of an Indian epic movie which was decades in the making
BERNARD WINCHESTER on the special event staged at the David Lean Cinema on Saturday, which provided previously unheard secrets of the director’s final film Saturday’s screening and special Q&A at the arthouse cinema in the Croydon Clocktower was introduced by … Continue reading
Cinema campaigners celebrate winning Time Out award
The David Lean Cinema has won the “Local Culture” section in Croydon in the 2016 Time Out Love London awards. The awards, in their third year, are determined by the general public who vote for their favourite restaurants, shops and, … Continue reading
Steve Jobs comes to Croydon, along with Miss Shepherd
Shock! Horror! The David Lean Cinema has increased its ticket prices for 2016. By 50p a time! Tickets are now £8 (£6.50 for concessions). The audiences should get over it, just, with another month’s programme offering a rich mix of … Continue reading
Heroes and villains lay out their stories across the big screen
It’s Heroes, and heroines, and villains at the David Lean Cinema in November, as shown in the month’s programme, just released. There’s Lance Armstrong, finally revealed as a drug-taking cheat rather than the cycling hero he and his backers would … Continue reading
Halloween Hammer tribute offers plenty to get your teeth into
The David Lean Cinema, named after one great British knight of the movies, will be staging another great movie night for Halloween, celebrating the life and career of Sir Christopher Lee. Veteran actor Lee died this summer, aged 93, after … Continue reading
David Lean screens Kubrick classic to mark Armistice Day
The David Lean Cinema will mark Armistice Day on November 11 in this centenary year of the start of World War I by screening one of the most powerful and influential anti-war movies ever made. Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory, … Continue reading
Campaign offers Loach’s last movie, Woody Allen and gigolos
The Save the David Lean Cinema Campaign continues to go from strength to strength, as shown by its September programme, announced yesterday. In addition to the regular screenings on Thursdays, the Campaign is staging two additional screenings in the coming … Continue reading
More absurdity coming to Croydon – this time on film
The film-makers assured everyone that it really was Michael Fassbender under the Frank Sidebottom mask in Frank. Regulars at screenings at the David Lean Cinema will be able to form their own opinions next month, when the acclaimed, absurd and … Continue reading
