19 July 2016
Last year FRIENDS OF BROOMFIELD PARK and TALKIES COMMUNITY CINEMA had a sell out with Ghostbusters in Broomfield Park.
This year will be even better - bring friends and family, come in fancy dress, make some alien food and have a picnic in the park in the dark.
ALIEN FAMILY PICNIC IN THE PARK IN THE DARKfeaturing...ET - THE EXTRA TERRESTRIALFRI 2 SEPTpicnics from 7.00film starts 8.00 (ish)Bowling GreenBroomfield ParkAldermans Hill,London N13 4RBMore details on the Talkies.......
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24 May 2016
From table-read to editing suite, create an entire short film in just 24 hours!
The Acting Space are thrilled to invite you to a special full day Screen Acting Masterclass in which you will learn basic technique in acting for screen, and then rehearse and film a short scene in just ONE DAY!!
No audition required. No previous experience necessary.
Saturday 23rd July10am-5pmMillfield House, Silver street, Edmonton. N18 1PJ
How it works
You will receive a carefully chosen script which suits.......
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06 April 2016
For the fourth event in this year's Here Suburban Film Festival Talkies Community Cinema is setting up its screen at Chickenshed. If the first Here night celebrated a "boy from suburbia" (David Bowie), on Saturday 16th April it will be the turn of a famous girl from a bit of suburbia that's even closer to home.
The star with soul
Amy is an Oscar-winning documentary about Southgate girl Amy Winehouse made by another north Londoner, Asif Kapadia. It's an insightful and moving.......
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31 March 2016
A very short trailer for a very short film that should whet your appetite for the evening of specially commissioned short flims that ends this year's Here Suburban Film Festival.
27th April at the Fox - see details........
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25 March 2016
Well, not exactly "here", but only just down the road, in Bounds Green, and part of the 2016 Here Suburban Film Festival, brought to you by Talkies Community Cinema.
Why "Men in Shorts"? Because there will be six short films about men. all introduced by their writers or directors or one of the actors (also men).
MEN IN SHORTS
a wealth of local talent on screen
FRIDAY 8 APRIL 7.30BOUNDS GREEN BOWLS & TENNIS CLUBoff Goring Road N11 2DD Show Map
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11 March 2016
An award-winning romantic comedy, in which more than half of the footage was filmed in and around Palmers Green, is now available to view online.
Dead Cat, released in 2013 and a winner of awards in the UK, USA and Cyprus, was written by two local lads, Sam Bern (Sam Bourke) and Stefan Georgiou. Stefan directed the film, in which Sam plays a character called "Sam". Sam started his education at Hazelwood School and then went to Ashmole, where he met Stefan. They have been.......
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05 March 2016
HERE is about the diversity of interests, people and places in the suburbs of London
HERE is not in the West End, Southbank or Shoreditch
HERE in the suburbs we aren't the swanky super-rich, the celebrity glitterati or bearded hipsters
HERE is where the cinema creatives of London produce their best output
HERE is where life is a rich diversity of race, religion and culture
HERE is where most of London lives.
Talkies Community Cinema's second HERE suburban.......
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18 February 2016
This gorgeous member of the Talkies Team is the perfect person to introduce the community cinema's next showing - Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Fantasy (normally known as "Tony") is one of many Talkies helpers and will be on hand to answer any questions audience members might have about drag but were too shy to ask - questions will be submitted anonymously.
You may have caught a glance of Tony/Fantasy backstage on The Voice, where he was supporting his partner Vangelis, whose.......
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23 January 2016
Hi, I am Georgia.
I am setting up a new Talkies volunteer group based in Bush Hill Park Bowls,Tennis and Social Club, Abbey Road EN1 2QP.
With a big screen, comfortable seats and a well-stocked bar, you can sit back and enjoy a great value night out, minutes from your doorstep.
We show critically-acclaimed, award-winning films that have been hand-picked by our resident film buffs. Come along with friends this Spring and enjoy our programme. .......
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21 January 2016
You can now book all Talkies events up until the end of March. All tickets are only £5, thanks to the support from Friends of Talkies.
Talkies now uses an event booking service that charges a lower fee, so booking online is cheaper than ever.
Coming up at Talkies
Thursday 11 February Nebraska Dugdale Centre, Enfield Town, EN2 6DS
Friday 12 February Pride Bounds Green Bowling & Tennis Club, Goring Road, N11 2DD
Wednesday 24 February Priscilla, Queen of the Desert The Fox,.......
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31 December 2015
Talkies is a not-for-profit, volunteer-led society which gets no regular funding or subsidy. Through the generous support of Friends of Talkies, together with other fund-raising and ticket sales, in 2015 we were able to:
commission young film makers to create short films based in our area;
run HERE FILM FESTIVAL, which showcases local talent;
buy good quality equipment to improve your cinema experience;
establish two new local groups - one in Bowes Park/Bounds Green and another in Bush.......
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09 September 2015
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Through the hatch of her café on Platform 1 of Palmers Green Station, Annita Correia sees and hears the early morning world passing by.
Platform 1 is a gem of a short film made by Jessica Bishop and shown as part of Talkies Community Cinema Here film festival earlier this year.
For the 2016 Here Film Festival Talkies, in conjunction with Short Sighted Cinema, will again be commissioning four short films:
"Four filmmakers will.......
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05 August 2015
This weekend one of the volunteers who help run Talkies Community Cinema will be giving a Talk of her own. Ruth Tosha Mulandi will be giving a lecture on behalf of WEA Enfield & Southgate entitled Down the Rabbit Hole: Cinematic Tales of the Fantastic.
8th August 10:00-12:15DOWN THE RABBIT-HOLE: CINEMATIC TALES OF THE FANTASTIC
150 years of Alice and then 130 years of cinema that continued the tradition of nonsense and fantasy.
WEA tutor Ruth Tosha Mulandi.......
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25 February 2015
This week the ever ambitious Talkies Community Cinema announces its latest venture. HERE proudly proclaims itself to be a "suburban film festival":
HERE FILM FESTIVAL is about the diversity of interests, people and places in the suburbs of London. HERE is not in the West End, Southbank or Shoreditch. HERE in the suburbs we aren't the swanky super-rich, the celebrity glitterati or bearded hipsters. HERE is where the cinema creatives of London produce their best output. HERE is where life.......
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01 January 2015
Talkies Community Cinema, the Palners Green-based pop-up cinema, has been going from strength to strength. Talkies has been able to keep ticket prices down to £5, but overheads have been rising steadily and Talkies has now set up a scheme called Friends of Talkies. By becoming a Friend, you will be able to help maintain the cheap tickets policy while taking advantage of special benefits, such as priority booking for popular shows.
Tricia Sharpe will be looking after Friends of Talkies. .......
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01 December 2014
Talkies Community Cinema rounds off its Autumn season on 10th December with Downhill, a humorous but touching look at men's mid-life crises, starring local actor Jeremy Swift.
Jeremy is well know to viewers of Downton Abbey, in which he plays Maggie Smith's butler, Spratt. And he is currently rehearsing for a major role in an amazing production of the Railway Children at King’s Cross Station (featuring a proper steam train!)
After the screening Jeremy will answer questions from members.......
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13 October 2014
Talkies - the pop-up cinema with a difference - is expanding its reach to take in Winchmore Hill and is looking for volunteers in N21 to help choose films and find venues.
Talkies Community Cinema showed its first film two years ago this month and has been attracting large audiences ever since. Its events in Palmers Green (at the Fox, Baskervilles and the Intimate) and in Southgate (at St Monica's Parish Centre and at Christ Church) have frequently sold out. it has also been showing.......
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22 January 2014
The next Talkies Community Cinema event at the Fox is an evening of short comedy films on 29th January.
Wizards, mime artists, baristas and estate agents are among the comic delights contained in the ten short films making up Ha! Comedy Shorts.
Organised by Kate and Gem from Short Sighted Cinema, the evening will bring London's short film glitterati to Palmers Green, where the audience will have an opportunity to talk to them about their work.
Ha! Comedy Shorts is part of the LOCO London.......
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06 December 2013
Palmers Green's own community cinema, Talkies, is now in its second year. The enterprising venture was launched by David Williamson in October 2012 with a screening of A Man of No Ambition, a film about notable Palmers Green resident Ralph Hutchings. Fourteen months and 21 events later, Talkies will end its 2013 season with a Palmers Green double bill at the Fox on 11th December.
The evening begins with an introduction to Palmers Green Tales, a new website which is about to be launched by Jenny.......
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