THE ROOM NEXT DOOR

2024 | Dir Pedro Almodóvar | 107m | Spain | USA

Pedro Almodóvar’s first English Language film delves into the complexities of companionship in the face of mortality. Estranged friends, Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton), reconnect when Ingrid is diagnosed with terminal cancer. As Ingrid faces her imminent death she turns to Martha for support. The Room Next Door explores the themes of friendship, love, and the profound choices we make at the end of life.
The afternoon screening is subtitled for those with hearing loss.

Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton) were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.

THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD

THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD
Tuesday 10 March 2020 at 11.00am

Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Ben Whishaw

Armando Iannucci follows The Death of Stalin with a characteristically exuberant reworking of the Dickens classic. Using visual tropes that are more comic-book than Victorian novel, and a varied but vibrant cast headed by Dev Patel in the title role, this is at once funny and colourful, as well as poignant and hard-hitting on the subjects of poverty, class difference and child exploitation. Nothing less than you’d expect from the man who gave us Alan Partridge and The Thick of It, with characters like Mr Micawber and Uriah Heep given new life by Capaldi and Whishaw.

2019 | Dir Armando Iannucci | 119min | UK |  USA

Monthly 11.00 am Babes in Arms screening
Bringing a baby is not compulsory, but we cannot guarantee a quiet auditorium! Lights will not be fully dimmed, sound will be lower than usual and people may need to move around. When available, subtitles will be shown. The babes in arms may be up to one year old.

Ticket Prices: £8.00 (Standard), £6.50 (Concessions), £5.00 (25 and under).

THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD

THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD
Wednesday 11 March 2020 at 2.30pm (Subtitled) and 7.30pm

Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Ben Whishaw

Armando Iannucci follows The Death of Stalin with a characteristically exuberant reworking of the Dickens classic. Using visual tropes that are more comic-book than Victorian novel, and a varied but vibrant cast headed by Dev Patel in the title role, this is at once funny and colourful, as well as poignant and hard-hitting on the subjects of poverty, class difference and child exploitation. Nothing less than you’d expect from the man who gave us Alan Partridge and The Thick of It, with characters like Mr Micawber and Uriah Heep given new life by Capaldi and Whishaw.

2019 | Dir Armando Iannucci | 119min | UK |  USA

Ticket Prices: £8.00 (Standard), £6.50 (Concessions), £5.00 (25 and under).

THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD

THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD
Thursday 5 March 2020 at 2.30pm and 7.30pm

Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Ben Whishaw

Armando Iannucci follows The Death of Stalin with a characteristically exuberant reworking of the Dickens classic. Using visual tropes that are more comic-book than Victorian novel, and a varied but vibrant cast headed by Dev Patel in the title role, this is at once funny and colourful, as well as poignant and hard-hitting on the subjects of poverty, class difference and child exploitation. Nothing less than you’d expect from the man who gave us Alan Partridge and The Thick of It, with characters like Mr Micawber and Uriah Heep given new life by Capaldi and Whishaw.

2019 | Dir Armando Iannucci | 119min | UK |  USA

Ticket Prices: £8.00 (Standard), £6.50 (Concessions), £5.00 (25 and under).

THE SOUVENIR

THE SOUVENIR 
Thursday 21 November 2019 at 2.30pm and 7.30pm

Honor Swinton Byrne, Tom Burke, Tilda Swinton

Acclaimed director Joanna Hogg’s mesmerising fourth film is a semi-autobiographical memoir of a toxic relationship that almost breaks a young woman starting out at film school. Tom Burke’s Anthony, the seductive quiet destroyer, is a strong screen presence. The Souvenir of the title is a painting from a bygone century and Hogg tackles her familiar themes of class, privilege and who has the accessibility to create art. Stylistically she avoids traditional film conventions preferring to work with body language.

2019 | Dir Joanna Hogg | 120min |  UK 

Mark Kermode’s view on “this tender tale of a relationship built on deceit” in The Guardian.


Ticket Prices:
£7.50 (Standard), £6.00 (Concessions), £5.00 (25 and under).

Letters From Baghdad (2016 USA/UK/France) 95 mins, Cert. PG

Screenings at 11AM & 7.30PM

Directors: Sabine Krayenbühl, Zeva Oelbaum        
Featuring: Tilda Swinton, Rose Leslie, Paul McGann

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The extraordinary Gertrude Bell was an English writer, linguist, archaeologist, diplomat and spy, with an unmatched first-hand knowledge of late 19th and early 20th century Arabia.  This fascinating documentary reveals her power and the crucial role she played in forming British policy in what is now Iraq.

The film is based on Bell’s letters – voiced by Tilda Swinton – presented via a combination of high-quality original footage and familiar actors representing key characters.

This unmissable personal and professional story provides an acute, revealing and sometimes chilling foretaste of current Middle Eastern troubles.

 

Here are links to a Review from The Guardian and a brief description of the making of the film from the production company.

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David Lean Cinema, Croydon on Thursday 15th June 2017

Shows start at 11.00AM, & 7.30PM, Ticket prices: £8.00 & £6.50 (concessions)

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