Greenwich Picturehouse

Events at Greenwich Picturehouse

• 2012

  Film

  20 Nov 2009 to 26 Nov 2009

  An academic leads a group of people in a quest in an epic adventure to stop the end of the world. According to the ancient Mayan calender, the world will end in 2012 and the protagionists who have vowed to stop this catastrophe must deal with natural disasters such as volcanic eruptions, typhoons and glaciers.

   

• A Serious Man

  Film

  20 Nov 2009 to 26 Nov 2009

  Larry is a good husband and father, and a conscientious professor at a quiet Midwestern university. He always tries to do the fair and just thing in the face of life's temptations and trials. Then one day, everything starts to go wrong, his wife leaves him for reasons she can't explain, and her pompous new lover muscles in on the family and their home, convincing the already cash-strapped Larry to move into a motel. His career is put in jeopardy by a series of anonymous letters falsely accusing him of unspecified misdemeanours, and his unemployable brother is becoming more and more of a burden.

   

• Avatar 3D

  Film

  18 Dec 2009 to 24 Dec 2009

  Avatar is the story of an ex-Marine who finds himself thrust into hostilities on an alien planet filled with exotic life forms. An Avatar is a human mind in an alien body and the ex-Marine finds himself torn between two worlds in a desperate fight for his own survival and that of the indigenous people.

   

• Bright Star

  Film

  20 Nov 2009 to 26 Nov 2009

  A lush 19th Century drama about a doomed romance between poet John Keats and his neighbour Fanny Brawn. When the impecunious writer first met Fanny, an outspoken devotee of fashion, he described her as a minx; she in turn thought poems 'a strain to work out'. But an intense love affair flourished between the two, which was tragically curtailed by Keats' death at the age of twenty five.