FRI 13 SEP: Four free films on Friday w #CWFFF19 – Matilda, Wonder Woman, Vertigo, Dean Spanley
It’s four-film-Friday for Day 8 (Fri 13 September) of the Charlton and Woolwich Free Film Festival – one in the afternoon, three in the evening and two of those outdoors where well-behaved dogs are welcome.
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All our screenings are free and available on a first-come, first-served basis.
FRIDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 2019
MATILDA (PG)
INDOORS – dressing up encouraged
Shrewsbury House Community Centre Library, Shooters Hill / Plumstead Common
Film starts at 4.30pm, doors 4.00pm
WONDER WOMAN (12A)
INDOORS – dressing up encouraged
Shrewsbury House Community Centre Library, Shooters Hill / Plumstead Common
Film starts at 7.30pm, doors 7.00pm
VERTIGO (PG)
OUTDOORS screening – seats are provided (75 which is max capacity, arrive early), bring something warm to wear and perhaps a torch. Food will be available. Dogs ? are welcome too.
Severndroog Castle
Film starts at 8pm, doors 7.00pm (from 6.30pm you can climb to the viewing platform)
DEAN SPANLEY (U)
OUTDOORS screening – a few seats will be provided for early arrivers but recommend bringing your own / picnic blankets etc. Bring something warm to wear and perhaps a torch. There will be pizza available or you can bring a picnic. Dogs ? are welcome too.
Charlton House
Film starts at 8.30pm, doors 7pm
1. Matilda (PG) – 4.30pm, Shrewsbury House [INDOORS]
Matilda Wormwood (Mara Wilson), a gifted girl is forced to put up with a crude, distant father (Danny DeVito) and mother (Rhea Perlman). Worse, Agatha Trunchbull (Pam Ferris), the evil principal at Matilda’s school, is a terrifyingly strict bully. However, when Matilda realizes she has the power of telekinesis, she begins to defend her friends from Trunchbull’s wrath and fight back against her unkind parents.
Matilda dressing up competion prizes!
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Other films showing at Shrewsbury House
Wonder Woman (Fri 13th Sep) – 7.30pm
Travel options for Shrewsbury House
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Buses stopping nearby: 89 (N89), 244, 486
Car parking can be reserved for blue badge holders (venue has a ramp and wheelchair-accessible loo on ground floor). [Contact Shrewsbury House]
Plan a journey with Citymapper (free online and phone app)
2. Wonder Woman (12A) – 7.30pm, Shrewsbury House [INDOORS]
Raised on a sheltered island paradise, when an American pilot crashes on their shores and tells of a massive conflict raging in the outside world, Diana leaves her home, convinced she can stop the threat.
Wonderful food, drink and company at the bar and in the café.
If you dress up you might even get a freebie!
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Other films showing at Shrewsbury House
Matilda (Fri 13th Sep) – 4.30pm
Travel options for Shrewsbury House
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Buses stopping nearby: 89 (N89), 244, 486
Car parking can be reserved for blue badge holders (venue has a ramp and wheelchair-accessible loo on ground floor). [Contact Shrewsbury House]
Plan a journey with Citymapper (free online and phone app)
3. Vertigo (PG) – 8pm, Severndroog Castle [OUTDOORS, DOG-FRIENDLY]
Vertigo is a 1958 American film noir psychological thriller film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock. The story was based on the 1954 novel D’entre les morts (From Among the Dead) by Boileau-Narcejac. The screenplay was written by Alec Coppel and Samuel A. Taylor.
The film stars James Stewart as former police detective John “Scottie” Ferguson. Scottie is forced into early retirement because an incident in the line of duty has caused him to develop acrophobia (an extreme fear of heights) and vertigo (a false sense of rotational movement). Scottie is hired by an acquaintance, Gavin Elster, as a private investigator to follow Gavin’s wife Madeleine (Kim Novak), who is behaving strangely.
Screening takes place in the grounds of Severndroog Castle, so please bring appropriate outdoor clothing. From 6.30pm the Castle’s Tea Room and Viewing Platform will be open from 18:30 and tickets for the viewing platform are £6 + booking fee (film screening is free). [More info]
Dogs on a leash are welcome at the screening, but not in the tea room or viewing platform.
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Travel options for Severndroog Castle
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Buses stopping nearby: 89 (N89), 244, 486
There is some parking (~20 cars) at the venue and cyclists can lock bikes on the railing.
The screening area and tearoom are wheelchair accessible (the tea room and loo via a stair climber which must be pre-booked. The viewing platform is not wheelchair accessible (86 steps).
[Contact Severndroog Castle]
Plan a journey with Citymapper (free online and phone app)
4. Dean Spanley (U) – 8.30pm, Charlton House [OUTDOORS, SUBTITLED, DOG-FRIENDLY]
Bereaved son Henslowe Fisk (Jeremy Northam) reluctantly makes dutiful weekly visits to his distant father Horatio (Peter O’Toole) who has withdrawn from the world following the loss of his wife, youngest son and still-missed childhood dog. Fate offers a distraction in the form of a public talk about reincarnation at which they encounter the new clergyman, the slightly eccentric Dean Spanley (Sam Neill).
The Dean is later found enjoying a private bottle of Imperial Tokay at Fisk Senior’s club and at a third coincidental meeting later that day an intrigued Fisk Junior introduces himself properly. Indicating that he has a rare bottle of Tokay he invites the Dean for dinner where he discovers that the drink has a very particular and peculiar effect on his guest, with strange reminiscences of what seems to be a previous life as a much-loved pet dog, cruelly separated from its master.
Film will be subtitled and pizza will be available to buy, or you can bring a picnic. There will also be a tiny raffle for a small prize (for people and pooches).
Barking biscuit bakes, iced by me @BiscuiteersLtd today. Someone at the #cwfff19 open-air (or indoors if rain) dog-friendly screening of Dean Spanley (Fri 13 Sep) will win 'em (if I don't eat 'em first). [alt text: selection of hand-iced dog-shaped biscuits (for people!)] pic.twitter.com/elljsq6PqR
— Jo Brodie, Ctrl+Esq. (@JoBrodie) August 28, 2019
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Other films showing at Charlton House
Faces of Genocide (18) & Shooting Dogs, aka Beyond the Gates (R) (Thu 12th Sep) – 7pm
Travel options for Charlton House (see further details below)
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Nearest rail: Charlton station
Buses stopping nearby: 53, 54, 380 (longer journey time), 422, 486
There is some (limited) car parking and some dedicated spots for disabled visitors. Venue is wheelchair accessible.
[Contact Charlton House]
Plan a journey with Citymapper (free online and phone app)
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), 4.30pm, 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