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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
Ashcroft blue plaque revealed at her South Croydon birthplace
Some 33 years after her death, English Heritage has today unveiled a blue plaque for Peggy Ashcroft, probably the most famous actress to have come from Croydon. The unveiling of Dame Peggy’s plaque, at her childhood home, 1A Tirlemont Road … Continue reading
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Hear Tilda Swinton’s Q&A at Croydon’s ‘beacon’ of arts cinema
Listen in to what the David Lean Cinema has already described as “one of our all-time very best special events” – Tuesday night’s Q&A with Oscar-winner Tilda Swinton, conducted by the arthouse cinema’s patron, Joanna Scanlan. Swinton was visiting the … Continue reading
David Lean Cinema prepares to celebrate its 25th anniversary
Given the huge efforts of the volunteers of the Save the David Lean Cinema Campaign, who managed to secure the future of the arts house venue in the Croydon Clocktower after its closure due to austerity cuts, this year’s 25th … Continue reading
David Lean Cinema is cutting its ticket prices from January
Croydon commuters’ rail fares might be going up in January, but cinema-goers’ booking fees are being cut. At least, movie-goers at the David Lean Cinema in the Clocktower on Katharine Street will be getting cheaper tickets for screenings from January … 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
Movie star Fox to answer questions on Passage To India
The David Lean Cinema makes something of a return to its roots in October with the screening of its eponymous director’s last film, A Passage To India, with a question and answer session afterwards featuring actor James Fox and Lean’s … Continue reading
Lean anniversary is marked with an added 35mm Twist
The 25th anniversary of the death of Sir David Lean – one of Britain’s greatest film directors – was commemorated on Saturday with the David Lean Cinema in the Croydon Clocktower a fitting venue. David Lean was born in South … Continue reading
Lean anniversary to be marked with a special added Twist
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
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
Pearson gets under the skin with Q&A at David Lean Cinema
The June season of (mainly) Thursday screenings at the David Lean Cinema in the Clocktower arts complex includes a special Question and Answer session next week with Adam Pearson following Under The Skin. Croydon-based Pearson was born with neurofibromatosis, a condition … Continue reading
