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Great something is starting in Crystal Palace

Come and join us at The Bigger Picture at EastDulwich Tavern

We would like to show more films but need more helpers, both on the night and to choose films. All profits go to local charities. Food and drink at EDT comfy sofas and a film a month but if anyone has any time and energy we could show more films. We have projector big screen and sound so could go fortnightly or weekly and we are really cheap and for charity.

have a look at The bigger pic website and contact us if you would like to

see you at EDT


Annie

apbremer Wrote:

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> I recall a cinema at Crystal Palace in Church Rd.

> On walking past recently I noticed that it seems

> to be in fine fettle, with a refurbished ticket

> foyer and appears ready to open. Does anybody know

> what is going on??


A cinema for CP - I flipping wish! (and so do the residents of CP). In short, Picturehouse cinemas were hoping to restore the old cinema to its former glory when it was sold by the Bingo chain that had inhabited it for some years but were beaten in the bid by KICC, a supposed church (which largely seems to be a front for money making on a large scale from those who can least afford it) who wanted to bus in thousands from outside the area for 'services'.


Bromley council turned down the change of use intention but KICC refuse to sell. Picturehouse are still waiting in the wings and the CP community are very much behind them. The battle has been going on for some years :(


http://www.campaign.picture-palace.org/

http://www.crystalpalacelife.com/index.php/kunena/general-chat/90-cinema-for-crystal-palace#1633

http://www.virtualnorwood.com/forum/topic/12460-25-church-road/

apbremer Wrote:

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> I recall a cinema at Crystal Palace in Church Rd.

> On walking past recently I noticed that it seems

> to be in fine fettle, with a refurbished ticket

> foyer and appears ready to open. Does anybody know

> what is going on??


It's not in fine fettle. The building was acquired in a sealed bid from Gala Bingo by the KICC - a prosperity gospel and 'charity' - a couple of years back.


This link http://www.campaign.picture-palace.org/ and a search on '25 Church Road' on local forums will give you an idea of the local opposition to what's gone on and plans for a cinema should the KICC ever decide/be forced to sell.



**Might as well delete this post - it's just a repeat of Voyageur's one which I'm sure wasn't there when I posted!!

Good idea; but where would you locate it!? There isn't much room on Lordship Lane really!?

Also yes, Ritzy and Peckhamplex are both quite close, im not particularly keen on Peckhamplex, but do go to Ritzy cinema quite often, though would definitely like a cinema on my road lol :-)

I'd love to see somewhere like Newcastle's fabulous Star & Shadow in SE London (http://www.starandshadow.org.uk/) - a volunteer-run cinema, music and comedy venue that also serves as a meeting place for special interest groups and classes. All run as a Community Interest Company.

The Bigger Picture Film Club http://www.thebiggerpic.co.uk/ is screening RED SORGHUM on Wednesday upstairs at the EDT. It would be great if any of you could come along!


It is based on the novel Red Sorghum Clan by Nobel laureate Mo Yan.

In 1920?s China a girl is ravished en route to an arranged marriage with an elderly, leprous winemaker. He mysteriously dies, and her ravisher eventually lives with her so that together they may make the red sorghum wine. The tone shifts from light to dark, humour to horror and sacrifice with the arrival of Japanese forces.

Zhang fills the screen with rich, sensuous images and uses actors, music and colour in a deeply expressive way. The stuff of legend - a subversive tribute to the vitality and endurance of Chinese peasant culture.


7pm Bar/themed snacks; 7.50 Introduction; 8pm Film

Free raffle prizes courtesy of Rye Books, Push Studios


Tickets ?7 in person from EDT, Lordship Lane; or online from WeGotTickets http://www.wegottickets.com/event/197861 or on the door.

  • 2 weeks later...
Goodness it would be amazing if you could get weatherspoons out of the forest hill theatre and use that for a cinema!! It could be glorious inside as it already has an art deco feeling, just needs a little tlc!! Its never really that busy so perhaps you should approach them as Forest hill is getting some lovely little shops and cafes opening and think it would thrive like the ritzy!
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