SAT 7 SEP: GREATEST SHOWMAN and FREE SOLO @TheReachWall at #CWFFF19 day two – #Charlton & #Woolwich Free Film Festival
It’s PE / Athletics day for Day 2 (Sat 7 September) of our Charlton and Woolwich Free Film Festival with circus skills in the morning (The Greatest Showman) and rock climbing in the evening (Free Solo). We’re also welcoming two new venues to the CWFFF family: Charlton Manor Primary School, and The Reach.
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All films are free and available on a first-come, first-served basis.
SATURDAY 7 SEPTEMBER 2019
THE GREATEST SHOWMAN (PG)
INDOORS
Charlton Manor Primary School, Indus Rd, SE7 7EF
Film starts at 11am, doors from 10.30am
FREE SOLO (12A)
INDOORS
The Reach, Unit 6, Mellish Industrial Estate, Harrington Way, SE18 5NR
Film starts at 7.30pm, doors 7.00pm
Bring your own chair
1. The Greatest Showman (PG) – 11am, Charlton Manor Primary School [INDOORS]
Orphaned, penniless but ambitious and with a mind crammed with imagination and fresh ideas, the American Phineas Taylor Barnum will always be remembered as the man with the gift to effortlessly blur the line between reality and fiction. Thirsty for innovation and hungry for success, the son of a tailor will manage to open a wax museum but will soon shift focus to the unique and peculiar, introducing extraordinary, never-seen-before live acts on the circus stage. Some will call Barnum’s wide collection of oddities, a freak show; however, when the obsessed showman gambles everything on the opera singer Jenny Lind to appeal to a high-brow audience, he will somehow lose sight of the most important aspect of his life: his family. Will Barnum risk it all to be accepted?
The school cafe (sweet pickings) will be open from 10:00 until 14:00 and would welcome film-goers to either a pre-show snack/lunch afterwards!
The school garden will also be open to visitors.
(The screening will take place in the upstairs assembly hall)
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Travel options for Charlton Manor Primary School
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Buses stopping nearby: 53, 54, 422 and 89, 178 and 386
[Contact the school]
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2. Free Solo (12A) – 7.30pm, The Reach [INDOORS]
Professional rock climber Alex Honnold attempts to conquer the first free solo climb of famed El Capitan’s 900-metre vertical rock face at Yosemite National Park. Starting out at 5:32am on 4 June 2017, he completed the route’s 30 pitches in 3 hours and 56 minutes.
The film itself won multiple awards, including Best Documentary Award at the 2018 Academy Awards. Words to describe Alex Honnold: Brave? Stupid? Spiderman? Come and see and make your own mind up.
Bring your own chair. Cafe Rosielees willl be serving food before the film.
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Travel options for The Reach
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Nearest rail stations: Charlton or Woolwich Dockyard
Buses stopping nearby: 161, 177, 180, 472, N1
[Contact The Reach]
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All 2019 Charlton & Woolwich Free Film Festival events
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Full listing of other films in our festival are shown below.
The Charlton and Woolwich Free Film Festival is funded by Royal Borough Greenwich.
Other films at #CWFFF19
- Fri 6: Cinema Paradiso (12), 7.30pm, Shrewsbury House, Shooters Hill / Plumstead Common
- Fri 6: Black Panther (12A), 8pm, Artillery Square, Woolwich
- Sat 7: The Greatest Showman (PG), 11am, Charlton Manor School, Charlton
- Sat 7: Free Solo (12A), 7.30pm, The Reach, Charlton
- Sun 8: The Bridge on the River Kwai (U), 8pm, Garrison Church, Woolwich
- Sun 8: Life of Brian (15), 8pm, The White Swan (gardens), Charlton
- Mon 9: The Night of the Hunter (12), 8pm, St Thomas’ Church, Charlton
- Mon 9: One Cut of the Dead (15), 8pm, The White Swan (gardens), Charlton
- Tue 10: Leitis in Waiting (18) + Shorts (Auntie (PG) & Welcome to Britain (PG)) – 6.30pm, Thameside Studios Main Gallery, Woolwich
- Wed 11: They Shall Not Grow Old (15), 7.45pm, The White Swan (indoors), Charlton
- Thu 12: Faces of Genocide (18) & Shooting Dogs, aka Beyond the Gates (R), 7pm, Charlton House Old Library, Charlton
- Thu 12: Mars Attacks! (12), 7.30pm, Starbucks, Charlton
- Fri 13: Matilda (PG), 4pm, Shrewsbury House, Shooters Hill / Plumstead Common
- Fri 13: Wonder Woman (12A), 7.30pm, Shrewsbury House, Shooters Hill / Plumstead Common
- Fri 13: Vertigo (PG), 8pm, Severndroog Castle (outdoors)
- Fri 13: Dean Spanley (U), 8.30pm, Charlton House (outdoors), Charlton
- Sat 14: Akeelah and the Bee (PG), 2pm, Woolwich Centre Library, Woolwich
- Sat 14: First Man (12A), 8pm, Royal Artillery Square, Woolwich