22Feb
The Godfather – Certificate 15 (1972) – ‘It’s not personal …. It’s strictly business’. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton and winner of 3 Oscars including Leading Role (For Marlon Brando who snubbed the award due to the way Hollywood treated Native Americans) and Best [...]
Tags: cafe of good hope, mafia, Meantime Beer, oscars, the godfather, you don't bring me flowers
18Jan
Hither Green Cinema presents 2 films to play with your heart strings, be you single or with the love of your life: Strictly Ballroom (PG) – Baz Luhrmann writes and directs this Australian Cinderella story about a young girl desperate to dance and a maverick dancer wanting to break out of the old routine [...]
Tags: amelie, australian, cafe of good hope, double bill, french, Meantime Beer, strictly ballroom, subtitiles, Valentines, you don't bring me flowers
31Dec
Hither Green Cinema Presents 3 classic films from the silent film era with some of the biggest names of the time with live electric accordion accompaniment from Igor Outkine who has played on some major film soundtracks and played to audiences all over the world. We have ‘The Champion’ with Charlie Chaplin, ‘Two Tars’ with Laurel [...]
Tags: Buster Keaton, charlie chaplin, Cinema, classic, laurel & hardy, Meantime Beer, silent movies
01Dec
And here we are. We have reached the Christmas sing-along! All you have to do is dress up as your favourite character and show up!! We will provide mulled wine, beer from the Zero Degrees bar in Blackheath, wine, teas and coffee plus mince pies, cakes and savoury snacks plus all the words to this Oscar [...]
Tags: Christmas, Cinema, hither green, mince pies, Sing-along, Sound of music, Zero Degrees beer
26Oct
Guillermo del Toro writes and directs this fairy tale to the back drop of the Spanish Civil War. Ofelia uncovers a strange underworld and the chance to escape the pain and uncertainties of her everyday life, but like any labyrinth you enter, will she be able to escape it and the ‘Pale Man’. We are [...]
Tags: Cinema, hither green, horror, short films
19Sep
Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon star in this screwball comedy classic. On the run from the mob, Joe & Jerry find that the only job that pays is in an all women’s jazz band which means becoming Josephine & Daphne and dealing with all the consequences that entails!! Doors open at 7pm [...]
Tags: Cinema, classic film, hither green
27Aug
To start our new season we have Mel Brooks’ zany 1977 ’homage’ to Alfred Hitchcock ‘High Anxiety’ (Cert. 15). Dr. Richard Thorndyke arrives as new administrator of the Psychoneurotic Institute for the Very, VERY Nervous even though he himself suffers from ‘High Anxiety’. Nothing is quite as it seems and soon he is embroiled in [...]
Tags: Cinema, classic film, hither green
27May
From film makers making films in Hither Green to National and International films we end the Hither Green Community Association’s Hither Green Week in a blaze of film this Sunday 29th May. Teatro Vivo will be visiting us from the 1950s, the BBC will be visiting us from Wood Lane, Constance Cakes will be coming [...]
Tags: events, film night, hither green, night out
24Feb
The next appointment with Hither Green Cinema is for Sunday 27th February with one of the greatest classics of all time, Casablanca. Join us, Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre and the wonderful direction of Michael Curtiz. Doors open at 6 pm, short film at 6:15 pm, main feature at 6:45 pm. Hither Green Cinema [...]
10Dec
Our Christmas Special is for Sunday 19th December, doors open at 6 pm. At 6:15 we show “Keys” another short by local film-maker Ben Honeybone, and a 6:30 pm we really celebrate Christmas with the Frank Capra’s classic “It’s a Wonderful Life”. Mulled wine and mince pies and delicious home made cakes (provided by the [...]