Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Arthouse Cinema Crouch End
Just been to the Arthouse Cinema in Crouch End. very pleasant place. Easy booking online(its tiny!) All seats good. Despite warnings on the website you do NOT need to be over 5'5" to use some of the upper tier seats. I'm only 5'3" and could see the screen no prob. Likewise the stalls are not too near the screen. At £11(no concessions) its not really much more than the Odeon and with the audience demoraphic you can be fairly sure of no yapping and mobiles going off. The ads and trailers are also quite gentle and the sound quality is good. Saw Leviathan, but as Ed Milibean might say 'I'll leave comment on that to others...'
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Permalink Reply by LOUISA LIVERMORE on
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Haha the audience demographic. So pleased that people of your class are so well-behaved.
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Permalink Reply by matthew cuthbert on
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Years back my house mate gave me a ticket to the BFI on Southbank, it was for a B&W Horror flick called the Mad Magician, I didn't realise I couldn't eat crisps noisily, it's never been an issue at Hollywood Green, you can even play tag, for short periods and take calls during a film. The Prince of Wales Cinema always encouraged viewer participation.
I dream of Screem on the Green at Duckets Common, at what was the oldest 'running?' electric Cinema in London.
I guess, if it isn't supported the Arthouse cinema could become a evangelical centre like the Royal Academy Gallery we lost next to the Pump House Hornsey.
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Permalink Reply by Noots on
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On my visits, the audience has been fairly "senior" - perhaps that's what the OP meant rather than class? Also the programming doesn't seem to attract popcorn-throwing, non-stop chatting teenagers, so that's a result too.
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Did they provide a preamble talk about the film, that would have been a nice touch, was it reel to reel or digital projection?
On the subject of music in the foyer, did they play Fleet Foxes or Two Door Cinema Club? :)
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Permalink Reply by Noemi Franco on
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I was yesterday for first time and I found the experince much more pleasant than Odeon or one of those for couple of quid more . The audience was very mixed including some tenagers and still was quiet. Sound was good, I'll definitelly go back.
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Permalink Reply by JonC on
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We went to see Turner at this cinema a couple of weeks ago & won't be going back anytime soon. The soundproofing is substandard, the seats small & uncomfortable & the audience primarily haughty. Avoid
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I like the Arthouse but at 5" 10" I find it very uncomfortable. This is unfortunate as I like their range of films and the fact that they show good films for more than one week. If only there was more leg room and better seats, I would go there more frequently.
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Permalink Reply by Dick Harris on
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I have been two or three times and quite liked it. There are two screens. In one of them the layout is fairly normal but in the other, I felt that the screen was much too wide for the depth of the room. Even though we were sitting in the back row it was uncomfortably close. I wouldn't have wanted to be in the front row in that room.
It is a bit unusual to make one's way through a bar (in which quiz night may be scheduled for later) to get tickets and to reach the films but it is a welcoming place and, overall, I though that it was a good way of making effective use of what must have become an underused resource. It is a nice old building in a convenient position.
I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary among the clientele. For some people, it may have become their local.
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Permalink Reply by Mark Smith on
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It's just been voted Best London Cinema 2014 in Time Out.
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Permalink Reply by Alison P on
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It's nice but (whisper) ... but the screen is just far too small. I'd only go and see certain sorts of films there.
And never ever sit in the front row - you'll ruin your neck.
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