Free Screenings at The Big Green Bookshops

The Big Green Bookshop opened last March after the last dedicated bookshop in the area closed down. The shop is co-owned by Simon Key and Tim West and aims to give Wood Green a bookshop that truly cares about it’s community. They have a strong events programme and since they opened as well as the dozens of author appearances, they have hosted evenings of stand up comedy, music, poetry and have had more than one visit by Maisy Mouse.

This year Simon and Tim will be turning the shop into a cinema for 4 days to show some great films. The films were voted for by visitors to our bookshop blog ‘Open a Bookshop, What Could Possibly Go Wrong’,

Persepolis (certificate PG-13)

Based on the brilliant graphic novel by Mariane Satrapi, this is a poignant coming-of-age story based around a precocious and outspoken young Iranian girl that begins during the Islamic Revolution.

The Power of Community (PG)

We’ve teamed up with the Sustainable Haringey Network to bring you this.

Sustainable Haringey is an independent informal network for everybody who wants to make Haringey a more sustainable place to be. It brings together groups and individualswho are already making positive contributions, as well as welcoming and encouraging those who would like to do more, or to find out how to.

An inspirational story of how the people of Cuba survived the loss of access to oil imports after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s. They had to become predominantly self-sufficient in food and other products, and change their economy and lifestyles quickly- yet this was an opportunity for a remarkable re-birth of community spirit. Could it happen here?

The Princess Bride

You think that I can summarise this film in 2 sentences? INCONCEIVABLE!!

Heroes, giants, villains, wizards, true love, but not just your basic, average, everyday, ordinary, run-of-the-mill fairytale. It’s the kind of film that, no matter how many times you’ve seen it, you still enjoy every wonderful scene.

Napoleon Dynamite (PG)

This celebration of geek chic splits opinion, but we want to cheer the nerd and hail the awkwardness of adolescence. Heck yes we do! How can our heavy lidded hero win the day? With num-chucks and ligers of course! 82 minutes of understated wonder. We think you might enjoy this.