Tag Archives: Save the David Lean Campaign

Culture deals with covid-19 without making a song and dance

Posted on March 24, 2020 by insidecroydon

The sense of doom and gloom caused by the covid-19 pandemic had well and truly taken hold of London by the middle of last week. There was a dark humour about the place reflected by the public address system at … Continue reading →

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We are many, they are few, and battles still to be won

Posted on October 30, 2018 by insidecroydon

The David Lean Cinema is finishing 2018 with a flourish, with a selection of screenings through to the end of the year and into 2019, which are certain to ensure that the arthouse movie auditorium in the Croydon Clocktower will … Continue reading →

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Arthouse cinema picks its Oscar-winners well by Moonlight

Posted on February 28, 2017 by insidecroydon

There’s no Oscar envelope bungling at the David Lean Cinema, where the first film up for viewing in April at the arthouse cinema (and chosen by the David Lean Cinema campaigners before Sunday night’s embarrassment) is the Best Picture-winner, Moonlight. … Continue reading →

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David Lean Cinema-goers are going ga-ga for La La Land

Posted on February 2, 2017 by insidecroydon

Not since the David Lean Cinema re-opened has excitement over an Oscar-nominated film seen its first two screenings at the 60-seater arthouse venue sold out – even before the tickets went on general sale. But that’s what has happened with … Continue reading →

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Lean anniversary to be marked with a special added Twist

Posted on March 6, 2016 by insidecroydon

The Save the David Lean Cinema Campaign is planning a special event next month to mark the 25th anniversary of the death of its eponymous Oscar-winner. Film historian Kevin Brownlow, the biographer of Croydon-born Sir David Lean and himself an … Continue reading →

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Council forced to re-open David Lean Cinema after three years

Posted on February 24, 2014 by insidecroydon

Tickets for the first public screenings at the David Lean Cinema at the Clocktower in nearly three years go on sale tomorrow morning – a victory for the “little people”, and Ronnie Corbett. The David Lean Cinema will be re-opened … Continue reading →

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