Diary January 2020 Wed 1 London's New Year's Day Parade 2020, Piccadilly, noon Thu 2 DLC: The Good Liar (15|2019|109 min|USA/UK), 2.30pm (subtitled) & 7.30pm Fri 3 Screen25: Midsommar (18|2019|147 mins|USA), Harris Academy, South Norwood, 7.45pm Sat 4 Norwood Society: Norwood Pauper Burials Commemoration, All Saint’s Church, SE19, 10am Cinema@St Johns: The Queen’s Corgi (PG|2019|85 mins|Belgium), Shirley Church Road, 2.30pm Cinema@St Johns: Men in Black International (12A|2019|114 mins|USA), Shirley Church Rd, 7.30pm Ravensbourne Morris: Wassailing the Apple Tree, The Two Doves, 37 Oakley Rd, Hayes, 8pm Sun 5 Friends of West Norwood Cemetery: West Norwood Cemetery Tour, Main Gate, Norwood Rd, 11am Mon 6 SCLS: Scouting: the Early Years 1907-1920, Michael Gilbert, Redhill United Reformed Church, 7.45pm Streatham Society: Are You Being Served, Guy Rowston, Woodlawns, 8pm Tue 7 Silver Cinema: Downton Abbey (PG|2019|UK|102 mins), Odeon, Beckenham, 11am DLC: Pakeezah (PG|1972|147 mins|India|Dementia Friendly screening), 11am Gresham: Can Maths Save The Whales and Cure Cancer? Professor Chris Budd OBE, MoL, 1pm Silver Cinema: The Aeronauts (PG|2019|100 min|USA), Odeon, Beckenham, 2pm Wimbledon Library: Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse (PG|2018|USA|117 mins), 7pm DLC: Sorry We Missed You (15|2019|101 min|USA), 7.30pm Old Coulsdon Camera Club: Street Photography, Damien Demolder, Cameron Hall, Canon's Hill, 8pm SMLS: The Iranian Revolution, Steve Chapman, St Mildred's Centre, 30 Bingham Rd, Addiscombe, 8pm ODHS: The String of Pearls, Bob Evans, URC, Bluehouse Lane, Oxted, 8pm Wed 8 RSM: That's Entertainment II (U|1976|121 mins|USA), Regent Street Cinema, 12 & 3.30pm FOWWL: 21st Century Revelations on the Life of Richard III, John Halligan, West Wickham Library, 2.30pm Gresham: Improvising Medicine, Professor Roger Kneebone, Museum of London, 6pm Kennington Bioscope: The Narrow Trail (1917|USA|68 mins), Cinema Museum, 7.30pm GSitP: How to Rig an Election & Get Away with It! Dr Brian Klass, Star & Garter, Greenwich, 7.30pm Bourne Society: Early Ballooning in Surrey, Sean Hawkins, URC Hall, Caterham, 7.45pm CNHSS: The Croydon Ponds Project, Adam Asquith, ECURC, 7.45pm Screen25: Sprinter (15|2018|114 mins|Jamaica/USA), Harris Academy, South Norwood, 7.45pm IWA: Stand up in the Canal Regency Comedy, Lester Hillman, ECURC, 8pm SLS: African Adventure, Colin Jones, SURC, 3 Sanderstead Hill, 8pm Thu 9 Silver Cinema: The Aeronauts (PG|2019|100 min|USA), Odeon, Beckenham, 11am Silver Cinema: Downton Abbey (PG|2019|102 mins|UK), Odeon, Beckenham, 2pm DLC: The Report (15|2019|119 min|USA), 2.30pm & 7.30pm Gresham: The City of London – Culture, Creativity and the Culture Mile, Old Library, Guildhall, 6pm Dame Cicely Saunders Concert: Conchaband, St Christopher’s, SE26, 7.30pm BBHA: Cleopatra, Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Christ Church Hall, Beckenham, 8pm Fri 10 Merton U3A: Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital, Carol Harris, Drake House, SW19, 1.45pm Screen25: Blinded by the Light (12A|2019|112 mins|UK), Harris Academy, South Norwood, 7.45pm CRMS: Some Hungarian Fare, Gordon Thompson, St Mildred’s, Bingham Road, Addiscombe, 7.45pm CAS: Hunting Outbursting Young Stars, Dr Dirk Froebrich, Junior Hall, Royal Russell School, 7.45pm FILMBOX: 9 to 5 (15|1980|109 mins|USA|free|members only), Langley Park Centre, Eden Park, 8pm Sat 11 Active Space Launch Event, Norbury Park, SW16, 10am-noon Merton Historical Society: Short talks, various members, St James’ Church Hall, Merton, 2.30pm Group 9.5: Rocket Ship (Flash Gordon serials US 1938/9), St Gabriel's Hall, Lupus St, Pimlico, 7.30pm Sun 12 North Wood Morris: Plough Sunday Dancing, St Dunstan's, Cranbrook, 10.30am Mon 13 PRA: AGM, Phoenix Community Centre, SE19, 2.30pm NGRS: European Narrow Gauge: East Germany and Romania, Donald Wilson, Keen House, N1, 7pm RCTS: Behind the Iron Curtain, Brian Garvin, ECURC, 7.30pm ESFH Croydon: An Illustrated History of Upper Norwood, Nick Barber, St Matthew’s, 8pm Tue 14 DLC: The Aeronauts (PG|2019|100 min|USA|Babes In Arms Screening), 11am Silver Cinema: Official Secrets (15|2019|112 mins|USA), Odeon, Beckenham, 11am Silver Cinema: Downton Abbey (PG|2019|102 mins|UK), Odeon, Beckenham, 2pm Gresham: Ending Our Consumer Addiction, Professor Jacqueline McGlade, Museum of London, 6pm DLC: Judy & Punch (15|2019|105 min|Australia), 7.30pm SMLS: Ernest Shackleton, the Man & the Myths, Michael Smith, St Mildred's Centre, Addiscombe, 8pm Purley Literary Society: Shirley Windmill, Frank Paine, PURC, 8pm Wed 15 RSM: It Happened to Jane (U|1959|95 mins|USA), Regent Street Cinema, 12 & 3.30pm Gresham: Prostate and Testicular Cancer, Professor Chris Whitty, Museum of London, 6pm Kennington Noir: Crime Wave (A|1953|73 mins|USA), Cinema Museum, 7.30pm Screen25: Solidarity (Documentary|2019|75 mins|director Q&A), Harris Academy, SE25, 7.45pm CNHSS: Entomology Section Meeting, Church Lounge, ECURC, 7.45 for 8pm Thu 16 Silver Cinema: Downton Abbey (PG|2019|102 mins|UK), Odeon, Beckenham, 11am Silver Cinema: Official Secrets (15|2019|112 mins|USA), Odeon, Beckenham, 2pm DLC: The Aeronauts (PG|2019|100 min|USA), 2.30 (subtitled) & 7.30pm Gresham: A History of the Breast, Professor Joanna Bourke, Barnards Inn Hall, 6pm Cinema Museum: Comedy Cinemingle, 6.45pm Norwood Society: Henry Tate, Bill Linskey, UNL, 7.30pm Fri 17 Ruskin House Film Screen: Winstanley (PG|1975|95 mins|UK|Kevin Brownlow Q&A), 7.30pm Argentinian Film Season: The Distinguished Citizen (12|2016|118 mins|A'tina), Cinema M'm, 7.30pm Screen25: The Amazing Johnathan Documentary (15|2019|91 mins|USA), Harris Academy, 7.45pm Sat 18 NWKFHS: Catching Up With Family Search, Sharon Hintze, Bromley Methodist Church, 10.30am DLC: The Irishman (15|2019|209 min|USA), 1.30pm Chaldon History Group: The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Simon Maslin, Chaldon Village Hall, 2pm Buster Keaton Society: Seven Chances (U|1925|56 mins|USA), Cinema Museum, 4pm London Short Film Festival: Weird, Wonderful Short Films From Before the 1960s, RSC, 6.30pm Cinema Ruskin: Roberta (U|1935|106 min|USA|Astaire/Rodgers) & Prairie Justice (1938), 8pm Mon 20 Gresham: George IV: Radical or Reactionary? Stella Tillyard, Barnards Inn Hall, 6pm SCLS: The Adventures of a Lady Balloon Pilot, Dani Maimone, Redhill United Reformed Church, 7.45pm Streatham Society: Vanished City, Tom Bolton, Woodlawns, 8pm Tue 21 Silver Cinema: Midway (12A|2019|138 mins|USA), Odeon, Beckenham, 11am Gresham: Can Machines Be Conscious, and Would It Matter? Prof Yorick Wilks, Barnards Inn Hall, 1pm Silver Cinema: Official Secrets (15|2019|112 mins|USA), Odeon, Beckenham, 2pm Gresham: The Rite of Spring: A Failure and A Triumph, Marina Frolova-Walker, Barnards Inn Hall, 6pm DLC: The Last Black Man In San Francisco (15|2019|121 min|USA), 7.30pm Women and Cocaine: A Free Soul (PG|1931|93 mins|USA), Cinema Museum, 7.30pm SMLS: Beetle Drive, St Mildred's Centre, 30 Bingham Road, Addiscombe, 8pm ODHS: Rochester Bridge, Sue Threader, URC, Bluehouse Lane, Oxted, 8pm Wed 22 RSM: Inherit the Wind (U|1960|128 mins|USA), Regent Street Cinema, 12 & 3.30pm DLC: Sorry We Missed You (15|2019|101 min|USA), 2.30 & 7.30pm Gresham: Public Speaking Without Fear, Professor Alex Edmans, Museum of London, 6pm Odyssey Film Club: Pain and Glory (15|2019|113 mins|Spain|Almodóvar|subs), Harris SE25, 7.45pm SLS: Exploring New Zealand, David Edwards, SURC, 3 Sanderstead Hill, 8pm Thu 23 Silver Cinema: Official Secrets (15|2019|112 mins|USA), Odeon, Beckenham, 11am Silver Cinema: Downton Abbey (PG|2019|102 mins|UK), Odeon, Beckenham, 2pm DLC: La Belle Epoque (15|2019|115 min|France|subtitled), 2.30pm & 7.30pm Gresham: Clara Schumann: Unsung Heroine of Romanticism, Fionnuala Moynihan, Mercers' Hall, 6pm BIS: Lina Wertmüller and the Commedia all' Italiana, Zoppelletto/Signorelli/Angeli, UWC, 7pm FILMBOX: Pain & Glory (15|2019|113 min|Spain) & Downton Abbey (PG|2019|UK|102 min), 7.30/45pm Group 19: TBA, SAHQ, Westow St, SE19, 7.15pm Fri 24 Gothique Film Soc: The Amazing Colossal Man/The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), Cinema M'm, 7pm CRMS: Henryk Góreki, Brian Lancaster, St Mildred’s, Bingham Road, Addiscombe, 7.45pm (& 29) Screen25: Joker (15|2019|122 mins|USA), Harris Academy, South Norwood, 7.45pm Sat 25 Screen25: Lion King (PG|2019|118 mins|USA|workshop), Harris Academy, South Norwood, 10am Screen25: Marley (15|2012|142 mins|USA), Harris Academy, South Norwood, noon Misty Moon: The People That Time Forgot (PG|1977|91 mins|UK), Cinema Museum, 4.30pm Dracula Society Film: The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (U|1919|55 mins|Germany), Rugby Tavern, 6.30pm Slide: Burns Night Ceilidh, Stanley Halls, SE25, 7pm Misty Moon: The Return of Dana Gillespie, Cinema Museum, 7.30pm Sun 26 CNHSS: Fungus Foray, Jane McLauchlin/Malcolm Jennings, Littleheath Woods, Queenhill Road, 10am VITO Project: The Celluloid Closet (PG|1995|102 mins|USA|35mm), Cinema Museum, 4.30pm Mon 27 Gresham: Powell and Pressburger’s Island Stories, Professor Ian Christie, Cine Lumiere, 6pm DLC: The Birdcatcher (15|2019|100 min|Norway/UK), 7.30pm CNHSS: What's in a Name, Ian Payne, ECURC, 7.45pm Tue 28 Shirley Library: Being Westminster Abbey's Official Photographer, Andrew Dunsmore, 2.15pm PBE Gresham: Prohibition: A Battle in America’s Last Culture War, Gary Gerstle, Museum of London, 6pm DLC: By The Grace Of God (15|2018|137 min|USA), 7.30pm Purley Literary Society: Blossom, the Cow that Changed History, Amanda Bryett, PURC, 8pm SMLS: A Japanese Journey, Jenny Crook, St Mildred's Centre, 30 Bingham Road, Addiscombe, 8pm Wed 29 RSM: The Goodbye Girl (PG|1977|108 mins|USA),