Dementia Friendly Screenings – January to April 2026

£6 Entry

David Lean Cinema

The David Lean Cinema

Croydon Clocktower, Katharine Street, Croydon CR9 1ET

Book online: www.davidleancinema.org.uk

In association with the David Lean Cinema and the Croydon Dementia Action Alliance

These Dementia Friendly screenings aim to make cinema more accessible by providing a fun and inclusive experience to enable people living with dementia, their families and carers to attend the cinema in a safe and welcoming environment.

The lights are left on low, there are no adverts or trailers, and the audience is allowed to move around or even sing along to musical numbers.

Admission:

£6 on the door for people with dementia

Carers: free

Free tea, coffee and biscuits will be available before the screening.

Film Programme

PAL JOEY (PG)

Tue 6 January at 11am

Director: George Sidney

1957 · USA · 105 mins

A loose adaptation of the 1940 Rodgers and Hart musical play. Frank Sinatra’s womanizing nightclub singer is caught between Rita Hayworth’s widowed socialite and Kim Novak’s naïve chorus girl.

ROMANCING THE STONE (12A)

Tue 3 February at 11am

Director: Robert Zemeckis

1984 · USA/Mexico · 106 mins

Romantic novelist Joan Wilder is pulled from her comfortable New York life when her sister is kidnapped by antiquities smugglers. She flies to the Colombian jungle to track her down, aided by exotic bird hunter Jack T. Colton.

YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (12A)

Tue 3 March at 11am

Director: Mel Brooks

1974 · USA · 106 mins

Mel Brooks’s homage to classic Universal horror films of the 1930s. Gene Wilder stars as the descendant of the infamous scientist, with Peter Boyle as the monster and Marty Feldman as his hunchbacked servant.

GALAXY QUEST (PG)

Tue 14 April at 11am

Director: Dean Parisot

1999 · USA · 102 mins

Actors from a once-popular sci‑fi TV series are now convention regulars. They are kidnapped by the Thermians, aliens who have watched their show and believe the cast can save them from their reptilian enemy.