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FILM STARS DON’T DIE IN LIVERPOOL (15) – 2017 UK 105 min

David Lean Cinema Croydon Clocktower, Katharine St, Croydon

Director: Paul McGuigan Stars: Annette Bening, Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Vanessa Redgrave After the end of her Hollywood career, Oscar-winning actress Gloria Grahame (Bening) switched to the London stage and began a passionate affair with Peter Turner (Bell), a young Liverpudlian. The relationship eventually ended, but some years later after collapsing in a Lancaster hotel, … Continue reading "FILM STARS DON’T DIE IN LIVERPOOL (15) – 2017 UK 105 min"

MENASHE (U) – 2017 USA 82 min – subtitled

David Lean Cinema Croydon Clocktower, Katharine St, Croydon

Director: Joshua Z Weinstein Stars: Menashe Lustig, Yoel Falkowitz, Ruben Niborski In Brooklyn’s Borough Park, the tight-knit orthodox Jewish community live amongst but quite separately from the wider world. Widower Menashe – finely played by newcomer Lustig - has little desire to remarry and wants to raise his ten-year-old son alone, who Hasidic strictures insist … Continue reading "MENASHE (U) – 2017 USA 82 min – subtitled"

THE DEATH OF STALIN (15) – 2017 UK/France 106 min

David Lean Cinema Croydon Clocktower, Katharine St, Croydon

Director: Armando Iannucci Stars: Steve Buscemi, Jeffrey Tambor, Simon Russell Beale, Michael Palin For the leaders of the USSR, material comforts are hard to enjoy when every night could be your last, as Stalin signs off the murderous lists compiled by internal security minister Lavrentiy Beria (Beale). When Uncle Joe is struck down by a … Continue reading "THE DEATH OF STALIN (15) – 2017 UK/France 106 min"

INGRID GOES WEST (15) – 2017 USA 98 min

David Lean Cinema Croydon Clocktower, Katharine St, Croydon

Director: Matt Spicer Stars: Aubrey Plaza, Elizabeth Olsen, O'Shea Jackson Jr. Alone and adrift after her mother's death, Ingrid (Plaza) takes refuge in social media, endlessly ‘liking’ snapshots of other peoples' lives. Transfixed by rising Instagram star Taylor Sloane (Olsen), Ingrid uses her inheritance to move to LA and inveigle herself into Taylor's orbit. Desperate … Continue reading "INGRID GOES WEST (15) – 2017 USA 98 min"

MANIFESTO (15) – 2015 Germany 95 min

David Lean Cinema Croydon Clocktower, Katharine St, Croydon

Director: Julian Rosefeldt Stars: Cate Blanchett, Erika Bauer, Ruby Bustamante Roaming the extraordinary streets and buildings of Berlin, in no less than thirteen guises, Cate Blanchett recites the manifestos of major modern artists and art movements. An unlikely premise? Perhaps! Yet, whether she's declaiming Dada at a funeral eulogy, snarling Situationism as a punk rocker … Continue reading "MANIFESTO (15) – 2015 Germany 95 min"

JANE (PG) – 2017 USA 90 min

David Lean Cinema Croydon Clocktower, Katharine St, Croydon

Screenings 11.00 am & 7.30 pm Director: Brett Morgen Features: Jane Goodall, Hugo Van Lawick Graced with an original score from composer Philip Glass, and featuring re-discovered footage shot by her husband Hugo van Lawick, this fascinating documentary tells the story of Jane Goodall, who, as a young woman with no scientific training, went to … Continue reading "JANE (PG) – 2017 USA 90 min"

MENASHE (U) – 2017 USA 82 min – subtitled – Holocaust Memorial Day screening

David Lean Cinema Croydon Clocktower, Katharine St, Croydon

Director: Joshua Z Weinstein Stars: Menashe Lustig, Yoel Falkowitz, Ruben Niborski In Brooklyn’s Borough Park, the tight-knit orthodox Jewish community live amongst but quite separately from the wider world. Widower Menashe – finely played by newcomer Lustig - has little desire to remarry and wants to raise his ten-year-old son alone, who Hasidic strictures insist … Continue reading "MENASHE (U) – 2017 USA 82 min – subtitled – Holocaust Memorial Day screening"

HAPPY END (15) – 2017 Fra/Austria/Ger 107 min – partially subtitled

David Lean Cinema Croydon Clocktower, Katharine St, Croydon

Director: Michael Haneke Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Mathieu Kassovitz, Toby Jones Haneke's latest film follows three generations of a bourgeois family living in Calais, who are self-absorbed and in many respects alienated from each other and the world in general. The young spend their time looking at their computer screens (and those of their … Continue reading "HAPPY END (15) – 2017 Fra/Austria/Ger 107 min – partially subtitled"

FILM STARS DON’T DIE IN LIVERPOOL (15) – 2017 UK 105 min

David Lean Cinema Croydon Clocktower, Katharine St, Croydon

Director: Paul McGuigan Stars: Annette Bening, Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Vanessa Redgrave After the end of her Hollywood career, Oscar-winning actress Gloria Grahame (Bening) switched to the London stage and began a passionate affair with Peter Turner (Bell), a young Liverpudlian. The relationship eventually ended, but some years later after collapsing in a Lancaster hotel, … Continue reading "FILM STARS DON’T DIE IN LIVERPOOL (15) – 2017 UK 105 min"

BATTLE OF THE SEXES (12A) – 2017 UK/USA 121 min – LGBT History Month screening

David Lean Cinema Croydon Clocktower, Katharine St, Croydon

Screenings 2.30 pm & 7.30 pm Directors: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris Stars: Emma Stone, Steve Carell, Andrea Riseborough, Alan Cumming In 1973’s male-dominated tennis scene, top female players are goaded into challenge matches by publicity-hungry ex-champion Bobby Riggs (Carell) – and US Open winner Billie Jean King (Stone) feels compelled to accept. As King prepares … Continue reading "BATTLE OF THE SEXES (12A) – 2017 UK/USA 121 min – LGBT History Month screening"