blog and past events 

What a wonderful evening we had. It was another sell-out event and a beautiful summer's evening. So many smiling faces. It was especially lovely to see some familiar faces of Enchanted Cinema goers who'd been to events earlier in the summer. Classics like Pretty Woman...

Past Event: THE GREATEST SHOWMAN (PG) Sat 29 SEPT, 2018 Burwash Manor Barton, CB23 7EY Hugh Jackman’s unmissable performance in this beautiful musical, all in the garden of the beautiful Gonville Hotel - it was a night to remember. “The Greatest Showman is the...

Past Event: HOOK (PG) Sun 16 SEPT, 2018 Gonville Hotel Cambridge, CB1 1LY Thank you to all alfresco film fans for joining us to watch Hook under stars!  Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, Julia Roberts, Bob Hoskins. When Captain Hook...

Past Event: THE GREATEST SHOWMAN (PG) Sat 15 SEPT, 2018 Gonville Hotel Cambridge, CB1 1LY Hugh Jackman’s unmissable performance in this beautiful musical, all to the beautiful back drop of The Gonville Hotel and the starry night sky. It was a night to remember....

Past Event: SPIRITED AWAY (PG) Fri 14 SEPT, 2018 Gonville Hotel Cambridge, CB1 1LY Magical is a word used casually about films like this, films about fantasy and childhood. Yet this one really does deserve it: an enchanted and enchanting feature from the Japanese...

Past Event: DUNKIRK (12) Sun 2 SEPT, 2018 Gonville Hotel Cambridge, CB1 1LY "May, 1940. Overpowered by the Nazis in mainland Europe, the British army has been forced to retreat to the French coast. But with the enemy advancing and the route home obstructed, it looks...

Past Event: PADDINGTON (PG) Sat 1 SEPT, 2018 Gonville Hotel Cambridge, CB1 1LY This two bafta nominated, heart warming family classic was the perfect film for a relaxing evening under the stars. We spent the evening at The Gonville Hotel exploring all its offerings...

Past Event: THE GREATEST SHOWMAN (PG) Sat 25 AUGUST, 2018 Gonville Hotel Cambridge, CB1 1LY Hugh Jackman’s unmissable performance in this beautiful musical, all to the beautiful back drop of The Gonville Hotel and the starry night sky. It was a night to remember....

Past Event: AVENGERS INFINITY WAR (12A) Fri 24 AUGUST, 2018 Gonville Hotel Cambridge, CB1 1LY The Avengers and their allies must be willing to sacrifice all in an attempt to defeat the powerful Thanos before his blitz of devastation and ruin puts an end to the...

Past Event: THOR: RAGNAROK (12A) Sat 18 AUGUST, 2018 Gonville Hotel Cambridge, CB1 1LY In Marvel’s most exhilarating film to date, Chris Hemsworth and Jeff Goldblum had us on the edge of our seats all the way through. Hats off to Taika Waititi, What a visually...

Past Event: BLADE RUNNER 2049 (15) Fri 17 AUGUST, 2018 Gonville Hotel Cambridge, CB1 1LY With this much anticipated sequel, from the opening aerial shots we know we are in the presence of a masterly visual tactician and a shrewd storyteller. Enchanted Cinema is back...

Past Event: THE GREATEST SHOWMAN (PG) Tues 7 AUGUST, 2018 Anstey Hall Cambridge, CB2 9LG What a night!  Hugh Jackman's unmissable performance in this beautiful musical. Watched under the stars in the perfect, unforgettable setting of Anstey Hall.. Enchanted Cinema is...

Past Event: ROMEO & JULIET (12) Mon 6 AUGUST, 2018 Anstey Hall Cambridge, CB2 9LG We watched the infamous tale of love. In the perfect, unforgettable, unmissable setting of Anstey Hall. Enchanted Cinema is back for its 4th year of inner city cinematic magic. These...

Past Event: MOULIN ROUGE! (12A) Sun 5 AUGUST, 2018 Anstey Hall Cambridge, CB2 9LG What a night!  Baz Luhrmanns much loved classic watched with the beautiful back drop of Anstey Hall and the nights sky, on the outskirts of Cambridge. Enchanted Cinema is back for its...

Past Event: LA LA LAND (12A) Sat 4 AUGUST, 2018 Gonville Hotel Cambridge, CB1 1LY Damien Chazelle’s 6-time Oscar winning La La Land became an instant classic last year. We watched the magical story of the city of stars under the stars in the beautiful setting on the...

Fri 3 Aug: THE GREAT GATSBY (12) Fri 3 AUGUST, 2018 Gonville Hotel Cambridge, CB1 1LY Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan star in Baz Luhrmann’s modern and typically eccentric double-Oscar-winning adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. We never thought...

Past event: CHEF (15) Sun 15 JULY, 2018 Gonville Hotel Cambridge, CB1 1LY On Sunday in the glorious sunshine we showed one of Enchanted Cinema's favourite films, the fantastically foodie Chef. The sun was shining with blue skies as everyone arrived, with the specially...

THE GREATEST SHOWMAN (PG) Sun 1 JULY, 2018 Gonville Hotel Cambridge, CB1 1LY What a night! Hugh Jackman’s unmissable performance in this beautiful musical. Under the stars in our favourite hidden inner city garden. Enchanted Cinema is back for its 4th year of inner...

BLACK PANTHER (12A) Sat 30 JUNE, 2018 Gonville Hotel Cambridge, CB1 1LY What a night! Black Panther, directed by the acclaimed Ryan Kugler, in a hidden secret garden in the heart of Cambridge. Enchanted Cinema is back for its 4th year of inner city cinematic magic....

THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI (15) Fri 29 JUNE, 2018 Gonville Hotel Cambridge, CB1 1LY Friday night was the start of a triple bill of screenings at The Gonville Hotel. We began, in the beautiful sunshine, with the Oscar winning Three Billboards: Outside...

Past Event: GREASE (PG) Sat 16 JUNE, 2018 Gonville Hotel Cambridge, CB1 1LY On Saturday we showed the classic musical Grease under the stars at The Gonvillle hotel in the heart of Cambridge. And what a beautiful evening we had, the sun was shining down on us as the...

Past Event: BACK TO THE FUTURE (PG) Sun 17 JUNE, 2018 Gonville Hotel Cambridge, CB1 1LY On Sunday we showed the 80s cult classic Back to the Future in the gardens of the beautiful Gonville Hotel in the heart of Cambridge. Enchanted Cinema is back for its 4th year of...

Enchanted Cinema - Summer Season 2017 Unforgettable evenings of outdoor cinema in Cambridge Summer Season 2017 Tickets here As an independent start-up we are over the moon and giddy with love for our city and its growing arts and cinema scene.  It is such a fantastic...

Past Event: THE GREAT GATSBY (12A) 10 SEPTEMBER, 2017 The Orchard Tea Gardens Grantchester, Cambridge Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan star in Baz Luhrmann’s modern and typically eccentric double-Oscar-winning adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby....

Past Event: DIRTY DANCING (15) 9 SEPTEMBER, 2017 The Orchard Tea Gardens Grantchester, Cambridge Nobody puts baby in the corner!  This was our 3rd screening of Dirty Dancing on the Enchanted Cinema screen and we’re so certain that there will be many more to come....

Past Event: MOONLIGHT (15) 8 SEPTEMBER, 2017 The Orchard Tea Gardens Grantchester, Cambridge Moonlight took this year’s Oscars by storm, nominated for 8 awards and it took home 3. Here are a couple of reviews that we love: “A genre-defying film. Its visual splendour...

Past Event: THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING (12A) 18 AUGUST, 2017 The Orchard Tea Gardens Grantchester, Cambridge Is this possibly the most ‘Cambridge’ film? It was a dream to pair such a fantastic film set in our home town in an iconic Cambridge location. The Theory of...

Past Event: DJANGO UNCHAINED (18) 17 AUGUST, 2017 The Orchard Tea Gardens Grantchester, Cambridge Jamie Foxx, Christopher Waltz and Leonardo DiCaprio.  What a cast.  And what a film.  The second Tarantino of the season and it was epic. We had the lovely Ian of street...

Past Event: THE GODFATHER (15) 13 AUGUST, 2017 The Orchard Tea Gardens Grantchester, Cambridge We’ve waited a long time to show this gangster classic.  It’s one of our all time favourite films and it was an absolute pleasure sharing an evening of classic cinema with...

Past Event: PULP FICTION (18) 12 AUGUST, 2017 The Orchard Tea Gardens Grantchester, Cambridge It never ever gets old!  The ultimate Tarantino cult classic Pulp Fiction is timeless and we just love showing this one.  So much so that we’re showing it again under the...

Past Event: LA LA LAND (12A) 5 AUGUST, 2017 The Orchard Tea Gardens Grantchester, Cambridge “Here’s to the fools who dream, crazy as they may seem.”  We all fell in love with La La Land as soon as we saw it.  We’ve urged everyone we know to watch it and feel it...

Past Event: BACK TO THE FUTURE (PG) 29 JULY, 2017 The Orchard Tea Gardens Grantchester, Cambridge We loved the spirit of our audience last night at Back to the Future at The Orchard Tea Gardens.  Oh the Great British weather!  Still, Prosecco was popped, drinks were...

Past Event: GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (12A) 28 JULY, 2017 The Orchard Tea Gardens Grantchester, Cambridge Oh the Great British weather! In true Enchanted Cinema style we set up the cinema in high spirits in spite of the rain and and in anticipation for the legend that...

Past Event: AMELIE (15) 16 JULY, 2017 The Orchard Tea Gardens Grantchester, Cambridge We love Total Film's description of Amelie: "The rarest of cinematic rarities - a schmaltz-free feelgooder which doesn't make you feel good, but reminds you that true love can exist...

Past Event: THE INTOUCHABLES (15) 14 JULY, 2017 The Orchard Tea Gardens Grantchester, Cambridge Last night we showed a French feature film on the Enchanted Cinema big screen for the first time.  And what a film to start on. The Intouchables.  If you weren't in the...

Past Event: ROMEO + JULIET (12A) 8 JULY, 2017 The Orchard Tea Gardens Grantchester, Cambridge Romeo + Juliet in The Orchard Tea Gardens was magical.  Another perfect summer's evening! Tom Petite of local music collective Unpluggedin performed an acoustic set and had...

Past Event: ROGUE ONE (12A) 7 JULY, 2017 The Orchard Tea Gardens Grantchester, Cambridge This was a one-off pop-up cinema & picnics night.  And the audience went all out! Picnic hampers, fresh strawberries.  Ellen’s homemade brownies sold from the EC bar made a...

Past Event: GREASE (PG) 18 JUNE, 2017 The Orchard Tea Gardens Grantchester, Cambridge We got chills, they’re multiplying… Our first evening of Enchanted Cinema at The Orchard Tea Gardens Cambridge!  Here we are the day after a wonderful evening watching Grease back on...

What a wonderful evening we had. It was another sell-out event and a beautiful summer's evening. So many smiling faces. It was especially lovely to see some familiar faces of Enchanted Cinema goers who'd been to events earlier in the summer. Classics like Pretty Woman...

Past Event: GREASE (PG) 2 & 9 SEPTEMBER, 2016 The Gonville Hotel Cambridge The tickets sold so fast that we had to add an extra date which was the first time we had experienced this wonderful thing at Enchanted Cinema. Cambridge really does love Grease, and of...

Past event: ROMEO + JULIET (12A) At The Gonville Hotel 3/9/2016 How​ ​lovely​ ​it​ ​was​ ​to​ ​get​ ​Baz​ ​Luhrmann’s​ ​critically​ ​acclaimed​ ​1996​ ​adaptation​ ​of​ ​Shakespeare’s  tragedy​ ​back​ ​on​ ​the​ ​big​ ​screen.​ ​Starring​ ​Leonardo​ ​DiCaprio​ ​and​...

Past event: GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (12) At The Gonville Hotel 21/8/2016 This event was fun. Since its release in 2014 Guardians of the Galaxy has fast become a modern Marvel cult classic. Chris Pratt stars as Peter Quill, soon to become the legendary Star Lord as he...

Past Event: DIRTY DANCING (12) 12 & 13 AUGUST, 2016 The Gonville Hotel Cambridge Dirty Dancing is possibly the most iconic romantic dance film of all time. We have never heard so many conversations involving so many quotes, namely ‘nobody puts baby in the...

Past Event: THE GREAT GATSBY (12) 23 JULY, 2016 The Gonville Hotel Cambridge We do love a good pair up of a perfect film in a perfect setting. The secret garden of The Gonville Hotel in the heart of Cambridge has been a beautiful location for many evenings of magical...

Past Event: MAD MAX:FURY ROAD (15) 17 JULY, 2016 The Gonville Hotel Cambridge After a 3 week break, Enchanted Cinema was back with a bang for Mad Max: Fury Road. The weather and vibe could not have been more perfect… What a lovely day! First shout out has to go to the...

Past Event: PULP FICTION (18) 19 JUNE, 2016 The Red Lion Grantchester Where better to screen such an iconic film than to the backdrop of the iconic Grantchester Meadows?  We popped up again in the beer garden of The Red Lion Grantchester. The musicians who performed...

Past event: THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (15) At The Gonville Hotel 11/6/2016 The Grand Budapest Hotel is defined and now renowned for its colour, costumes and set design. Having won Oscars and countless awards for this reason, we knew that we had to find a venue that...

THE BLUES BROTHERS (15) at The Red Lion, Grantchester 29/05/16 What a way to kick off Enchanted Cinema’s Summer Season 2016! Team EC spent the day transforming the garden of The Red Lion in Grantchester into a fairy tale setting. 135 deckchairs were set up, Nemitode...