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Showing posts with label Film. Show all posts
Murder at the Movies, May 16
Calling all armchair detectives – an immersive murder mystery cinema event is coming to New Cross in May! Learn from literature’s master of mystery at this film screening with a twist where the audience will have their own murder mystery to solve.
On 16th May, the Amersham Arms in New Cross will be transformed into a 1930s cinema. The audience will step back in time to the closing night of the ‘Amersham Picture House’ which is soon to be bulldozed to make way for luxury flats. The owner of the cinema has invited a host of colourful characters for one last ‘hurrah!’ before the cinema shuts its doors for good, but there’s more to this party than meets the eye…
The audience will watch the Christie Classic, Murder on the Orient Express (1974), play games and solve puzzles to uncover the clues to a murder mystery that unfolds as the night goes on. 1930’s outfits are highly encouraged and there will be a prop-box on the night to help you get into character!
Organiser Harriet from Child.org said “This will be a great chance for people who saw the recent Murder on the Orient Express film to experience the original in a wholly different setting. I hope the audience will really step into the story – I can’t wait to see everyone’s fancy dress!”
Popcorn and drinks from the bar will also be available. This is an over-18s only event and tickets are only available in advance online at: http://bit.ly/murderatthemovies
There’s a limited number of early bird tickets, so get them before they’re gone! All proceeds from the event will go to Child.org
The New Cross + Deptford Free Film Festival 2018
Launch night is at Peckham's Brick Brewery with Get Out, a late license bar, street food and music.
This year the festival features three outdoor bike powered screenings, including Sing at Pepys Park, Nacho Libre at Telegraph Hill Upper Park and Pirates of the Carribean at Folkestone Gardens.
NXDFF also has a pre-release screening of locally shot film, SINK, followed by a Q&A with writer/director Mark Gillis. Shot in New Cross, Deptford and Brockley, the film has attracted Mark Rylance as an Associate Producer.
The festival closes at Buster Mantis with a music themed documentary called Beats of the Antanov. The film depicts the Sudanese conflict in the Blue Nile and Nuba Mountain regions, focusing in particular on the role of music in helping the affected communities to sustain themselves culturally and spiritually. Buster Mantis will host our last event and local DJ collective Bombotropics will provide global beats and melodies.
NXDfff is completely run by volunteers made up of local residents, students and community groups. NXDfff has a DIY ethos that encourages creative freedom: this year more than 30 people are curating film events with help and guidance from a core festival team.
For full details click here.
Curzon plan picked for Ladywell Playtower
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| The Curzon proposal |
Of the four proposals shortlisted to restore the derelict building, the Curzon plan was ranked joint-first by Council officers alongside a rival cinema scheme from Picturehouse, and came second to the Picturehouse plan in the public consultation. A petition against Picturehouse gained momentum in recent days, due to the pay and conditions offered to the parent group's workers.
The Curzon scheme was produced in partnership with developers Guildmore and will include "a mix of residential, nursery and supported living uses across the remainder of the site.". @mayorbullock has announced he has selected @CurzonCinemas @Guildmore to build a 3 screen 220 seat 🎥 cinema 🎬 at Ladywell Playtower 👍 🍿👏🏾— Lewisham Council (@LewishamCouncil) November 15, 2017
The result is a fantastic turnaround in the fortunes of the building - which once looked doomed - and great news for Ladywell as a destination.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show, November 24
Calling all Rocky virgins and committed fans: The campest of cult classics is coming to church.
The screening will take place in the gorgeously gothic atmosphere of St Nicholas Church, Deptford.
An adventure of love, hate, seduction and garter-belts follows. Will our young love-birds survive with their integrity intact?
All profits will benefit the 2018 festival.
Extravaganza begins: 7.00PM. Film starts: 8.00PM
Click here for tickets.
Picturehouse tops Playtower poll
The people have spoken - and they demand a cinema.
On November 15th, the Mayor of Lewisham will meet with his cabinet to discuss the four bids to redevelop the Ladywell Playtower.
Two cinema chains (Picturehouse and Curzon), a property consortium (RJK Properties / Copeland Park and Hillman) and Goldsmiths College have submitted plans.
A public consultation has been running since the summer and, when asked, the public chose fun. In the public vote, the Picturehouse bid (below) came first, followed by Curzon, RJK and Goldsmiths.
Picturehouse wants to develop a 5-screen, 620 seat cinema, with café and bar space. The main cinema space would be included within the existing fabric of the pool hall while a two-storey building would be built to the rear of the building to accommodate four more screens. Curzon offers two fewer screens but includes a residential component.
In the public feedback, Goldsmiths' proposal was not deemed to offer enough benefit to the wider community, while the RJK 'cultural quarter' left people wondering what it was supposed to be or how it would be delivered.
Any of the bids would deliver a boost for the area and breathe welcome new life into an important building, but the Picturehouse bid would be transformative for Ladywell.
Thanks to Ladywell Paul for the prompt.
The Future of The Ladywell Playtower
Four potential bidders for the Ladywell Playtower - including two cinema chains, a cultural consortium and Goldsmiths - have been shortlisted by Lewisham Council, who have launched a public consultation about the future of the iconic building.
The Grade II-listed Playtower has lain dormant for years, but now four exciting concepts have been identified, including:
Goldsmiths
"Goldsmiths propose to locate the University’s established and internationally renowned post‐graduate Art courses solely at the redeveloped Playtower site, in a dedicated and purpose‐built centre for the growing Masters programme on offer.
Guildmore and Curzon
"Our vision is to reimagine the Ladywell Playtower as a publicly accessible leisure destination for the Borough of Lewisham.
Picturehouse
"Our proposal seeks to enhance and preserve it by finding a new use which will enable it to play an active part in the community for many years to come. We propose to refurbish the main building and to use the theatrical pool hall space for one large cinema screen - the remainder of the existing building will provide ancillary spaces with a cafe, bar, event room, exhibition space and community rooms. To the rear of the site on the footprint of the demolished second pool hall - we will construct a further four cinema screens in a new extension.
which will link Ladywell Fields with Ladywell Road, placing the Playtower at the heart of what could become a new cultural quarter for Ladywell."
RJK/Copeland Park and Hillman
"Our vision for the Playtower is to create an exciting and dynamic cultural quarter for Ladywell, while transforming a building that was originally designed to separate people by class into a thriving site that brings people together and encourages them to interact and create.
"This space could become one of the most unique and intriguing performance venues in London and we will work with our partners at the Albany Theatre in Deptford to programme a range of commercial and community performances by everyone from leading arts organizations to local people.
"We are proposing to build, subject to planning permission, three new buildings on the site, all sensitively designed to fit in with the Playtower and other surrounding heritage buildings. This new ‘family’ of buildings will include a block of twenty rentable flats, a modest building with four rentable live/work units and ‘The Pavilion’ - a commercial building we will rent out to multiple tenants in the same way as the Playtower."
For a site that has been so neglected for so long, it is exciting to see such ambitious visions being presented by organisations with the means to realise them. You have until August 17th to complete the questionnaire.
Full disclosure, I am a member of the Goldsmiths body that approved this exploratory work on their part.
Footloose, July 8
We are screening the brilliant dance movie, Footloose, followed by an 80's disco featuring all of your favourite 80's pop tunes.
Join us at The Brockley Social Club on Saturday 8th July - please do dress up in 80s gear if you like - as an incentive, we will award prizes to the best dressed!
For early birds who arrive between 7.30 and 8.00 on the night, we will have Pop Up Make Up and Hair Crimping in the snug (for a 'pay what you like' donation). Guaranteed 80's look in minutes. Ellnet, rollers and peach eye shadow included!
After the film, we bring you the very best of the 80's. Enjoy the tunes you can't believe you still know the words to. Depeche Mode, Spandau Ballet, A-ha, Japan, Yazoo, we aim to play something for (almost) everyone. Power ballads also available!
Tickets available here.
Brockleywood Nights – Thurs 8th June
Declan writes:
Enjoy the filmmaking talent and cinematic treasures from Brockley and beyond at Brockleywood Nights, a showcase for local short film.
The event is free and scheduled for the evening of Thursday 8 June, starting at 8.30pm (offering respite from the General Election mayhem) and will be in the fantastic sprawling garden of the Fox & Firkin down the road on Lewisham High St in SE13. Pushing the Brockley boundaries a wee bit, but the venue is great and there will be live music afterwards with Ron’s Speakeasy, so it’s going to be a top night!
Submissions are still open and so please get in touch. All genres are welcome and while the focus is on showcasing local filmmakers (or films linked to the local area), films from Lewisham, South London and beyond will also be considered. Please get in touch or forward to any filmmaking friends you know.
For further details or submissions contact Declan at declanmcgill@gmail.com
The event is part of Brockley Max (2 - 10 June 2017) and as ever there will be loads of (mostly free) gems to discover. Check out brockleymax.co.uk for more info or like/follow @BrockleyMax on social media.
Crofton Park Pictures at The Rivoli
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| The Shining is playing on October 25th |
The season starts on June 22nd with Jaws and ends on October 27th with The Exorcist. Tickets start at £12 and are available here.
New Cross and Deptford Free Film Festival 2017: Opening Night
Details of the opening night and the rest of the festival here.
The Thinking Cinema
The Thinking Cinema is a philosophical cinema specialising in showing intelligent and thought-provoking documentaries, art films, and fiction films from around the world. The cinema aims to help us understand how we exist in relation to one another. It will also exist as a space for thinking to take place, for conversations and talks, seminars and lectures.
The cinema will launch at 6pm Thursday 15 December with a free screening of Gun Nation by Zed Nelson (30min, 2016), introduced by the director.
Housed in the Good Hope café (run by the charity For Jimmy) at PLACE/Ladywell on Lewisham High Street, the new non-profit volunteer-run community cinema has 30 seats, a surround sound system, and a 4-metre wide screen.
To become a free member simply email info@thethinkingcinema.org.
The London Migration Film Festival, November 11-13
Eight feature length films will be screened as part of the festival, along with a number of shorts. Between films there will be two panel discussions with academics, artists, practitioners and former immigration detainees. The discussions will explore, but not be limited to, themes raised by the films.
The festival will incorporate musicians, including Kokoroko, Djanan Turan, Lili Caseley, Noga Ritter, and Alvorada, as well as DJs from Dance for Refuge and DJ Blonde Zilla. On top of that, there will be workshops, a networking brunch, and platforms for dialogue.
Any revenue raised through the festival will be used to support Akwaaba, a small charity providing weekend drop-in and advice services to refugees and migrants in Hackney, London.
Migration is often relegated into the corners of the film industry, with films that solely focus on negative experience of displacement. The aim of LMFF is to portray the diversity, nuance and subjective experience within migration - in order to restore the dignity and humanity inherent within it.
For contact details and more information about LMFF, visit their Facebook page here.
Cinetopia Presents Monochrome Modern
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| La Haine, Oct 13 |
Cinetopia returns with a season of six great black and white films made in the age of colour.
Despite the dominance of colour, black-and-white films have never really gone away and in recent years there’s been a resurgence of directors choosing black-and-white over colour.
Cinetopia invite you to join us for six monochrome masterpieces made between the seventies and the noughties. Screenings take place every month starting Thursday 13 October.
The films:
· La Haine. 13 Oct
· Ida. 10 Nov
· Manhattan. 8 Dec
· The White Ribbon. 12 Jan
· Radio On. 9 Feb
· The Last Picture Show. 9 Mar
Where: Out of the Brew, 306 New Cross Road
When: Film starts promptly at 8.00pm.
How much: £5.00 on the door.
No pre-booking. Limited space. First come first served.
Curzon Goldsmiths wants your views
The Curzon Goldsmiths is not selling as many tickets as they would like, or perhaps would have expected, given the huge amount of bleating from local residents about the fact that Lewisham was the only London borough without a cinema.
Curzon has launched a survey for locals to work out what they can be doing better to attract customers. You can participate here. My diagnosis is as follows:
1. People don't know they're born. It was only really a technical quirk that Lewisham had no cinema - not a huge problem to be solved. We have cinemas in Peckham, Surrey Quays and Greenwich within very easy reach.
Having a more local option is great, but going to the cinema isn't about convenience (the most convenient thing to do is to stay at home and watch movies on demand on a massive telly). So, to attract punters, the Goldsmiths Curzon needs to be a great experience.
2. It's not cinema-y enough. It's a revamped lecture theatre and it feels like it. It doesn't yet create the sense of occasion that a big multiplex or a great arthouse cinema does. It's not a place to chuck popcorn around or upgrade to D-Box, nor is it a place which has carefully curated programming.
3. Not enough people know about it. Marketing was limited at launch and most people I come across still haven't heard about it. Part of the cinema experience is to experience art with other people. It needs to tell people about it and create moments to draw people in.
4. Price is an issue. Lower priced tickets could draw in the curious and enable a loyal local following, building word of mouth and allowing people to overlook the constraints of the venue. There has been some tinkering with prices and schedules, but the general consensus among BCers seems to be that it remains on the pricey side.
I think it is a great asset, but needs some more work to make it a success. What has your experience been?
Future Shorts Deptford
Deptford bar / restaurant / art venue Buster Mantis is hosting Future Shorts, the largest short film network in the world, for a one-off pop-up cinema screening of its Summer 2016 season of short films.
Buster Mantis promises "a full evening's worth of entertainment with food, craft beers, cocktails, DJs and special guests."
Advance tickets £4, with some limited availability on the door for £5. Details here.
A Strange New Experience in Brock
Having recently pulled off a 1940’s film night screening “Odd Man Out” at the Brockley and Ladywell Cemetery Chapel, I have teamed up with the Brockley Jack Theatre to pilot a series of films for the area - starting with 2 films in the first week of August.
On Tuesday 2 August (7.45pm), we are showing the classic British black and white horror – “The Innocents” (1961). As something of a contrast, on Thursday 4 August (7.45pm), we are showing the very recent “10 Cloverfield Lane” (2016).
Each evening there will be a brief introduction to the film to whet appetites. Tickets are £7 for each film or you can purchase a ticket for both nights for £12 – via the Brockley Jack Theatre website.
The idea here is to generate interest for a local film season - hopefully starting in the Autumn. We are keen to hear any suggestions for films that the community think would play well in future.
Please post your suggestions here.
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