Portobello Pop-Up 2011 summer season is here!

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Portobello Pop-Up, London’s non-profit outdoor Digital Cinema, built underneath the Westway flyover on Portobello Road is coming back this year. The program runs from July 28 to 21 October. In September it hosts another local iconic event: the Portobello Film Festival.

Keep tuned for more info. In the meantime take a look at the screenings for the first few days with the opening night featuring a Save the Portobello Market Benefit screening with an introduction from the campaign plus more. With the current appeal on the Admiral Vernon Arcade, this opening night is bound to attract a lot of locals.

Thursday 28th July. 7.30pm

OPENING NIGHT

Save Portobello Market Benefit. Introduction from the campaign, plus a mass txt objection: keep the Admiral Vernon Arcade open, and...

Passport to Pimlico (U) U.K,1949. 84 mins.
Dir Henry Conelius. Staring: Stanley Holloway, Margaret Rutherford.

The most archetypal Eailing comedy starring some of Britain’s best character actors who do there utmost to revive the spirit of little people pulling together, as the inhabitants of Pimlico forgo government austerity measures and declare their own independent state. A delight.

Friday, 29th July: 8.30pm.

SENNA (12A) U.K, 2011. 105 mins.

Directed By Asif Kapadia. Starring Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost.

This is the story of Ayrton Senna, the fiercely driven Brazilian whose ascendancy began at the Monaco Grand Prix and ended in tragedy at Imola. Created from an array of footage, YouTube clips and Super8, a stunning documentary. Introduced by Senna’s producer James Gay-Ress.

Saturday 30 July; 8.30pm

BLACK ORPHEUS. France-Italy-Brazil 1958 107 mins

Dir. Marcel Camus. Cast: Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn

Recreating the Orpheus legend in Rio with an all-black cast The Technicolour film captures the jubilant carnival celebrations, the samba and bossa nova beats, a force as fundamental as doomed love itself. A film so sumptuous, it’ll bring sunshine to every heart.

Sunday 31st July: 7.30pm.

CYCLE IN CINEMA: A TOWN CALLED PANIC or Panique au village. (PG) Fr, 2009, 75min.

Directed By: Stéphane Aubier , Vincent Patar

Imagine a Drive-In Cinema but without the cars. Come on your bike and help power the performance. 20 bicycles must be on the go. If one stops... the film stops! This is Cycle-In Cinema powered by you. Screening of a lifetime. InTransit season, Magnificent Revolution, R.B.K.C Arts.

see: www.portobellopopup.com

The Portobello Pop Up Cinema is located:

Under The Westway

3 Acklam Road, entrance from Portobello Road

W10 5TY

Tude: Ladbroke Grove.

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