15May
For Hither Green Week we are showing 2 films. One at the Station Pub, Staplehurst Road for the adults and one at St Swithun’s Hall off Hither Green Lane for children of all ages!! Pie and Mash Films are a local film company known for their collection of gritty thought provoking British independent films and [...]
Tags: animalympics, hither green week, lunatic, Pie n mash films
20Apr
Hither Green Cinema Presents ‘South of the River’ & ‘Sleep Well’ Wednesday 2nd May, Station Pub, Staplehurst Road 7.30pm FUSS AGM & Short Film Screening In May we are joining forces with FUSS (Friends and Users of Staplehurst Road Shops) as part of their AGM. FUSS will be voting for officers (Chair, Vice [...]
Tags: Ben Honeybone, FUSS, Mark Bowsher, South of the River, The Station Pub
20Mar
So here we are at the last screening of our 2011/12 season and we have a Best of British double bill. Two completely different generations and humour but both classics in their own right. Blithe Spirit – Cert U David Lean directs one of our favourites, Rex Harrison (who appeared on our first ever film [...]
Tags: blithe spirit, cafe of good hope, Cinema, classic film, hither green, margaret rutherford, Meantime Beer, rex harrison, richard e grant, withnail & i, you don't bring me flowers
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