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Originally Posted by shaunaneto

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You'd never do such a thing Graham.



This may well be true, but I resent the cinema experience enough that it'd probably be lost there too. At least at home I'm better able to envelop myself in the storyline. Rather than muttering darkly about how cinemas (I mean other people) annoy me. Too easily distracted, the story of my life and my school report cards.

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Ah!

I recommend Pictureville at the National Media Museum (in Bradford). Tickets are from £6.50 (it depends on the time, etc). The projection and sound is immaculate and you can observe the projection room as you enter the auditorium through its glass walls (there are no intervening prisms and loss of image as in multiplexes), it does not sell popcorn or hot dogs but it does have a film bookshop and I once entered to find only one (1) other person present for the film, although the audience later swelled to a total of three.

It is certainly better than Sky Movies.

Splendid insight. And posted under your own moniker too

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Originally Posted by Graham Breeze

Ah!

I recommend Pictureville at the National Media Museum (in Bradford). Tickets are from £6.50 (it depends on the time, etc). The projection and sound is immaculate and you can observe the projection room as you enter the auditorium through its glass walls (there are no intervening prisms and loss of image as in multiplexes), it does not sell popcorn or hot dogs but it does have a film bookshop and I once entered to find only one (1) other person present for the film, although the audience later swelled to a total of three.

It is certainly better than Sky Movies.

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They also do senior screenings with free tea and coffee on Thursdays, for those V60s and over. My parents have seen quite a few films recently.

http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.u...creenings.aspx

Watched Out Of a The Furnace last night. An excellent film.

Wolf of Wall Street.

Its like a glossy brochure for capitalism! I wonder is there a night course in stockbroking in the local school...

Anchorman 2. Funny but lost interest towards end.

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Originally Posted by Graham Breeze

Ah!

I recommend Pictureville at the National Media Museum (in Bradford). Tickets are from £6.50 (it depends on the time, etc). The projection and sound is immaculate and you can observe the projection room as you enter the auditorium through its glass walls (there are no intervening prisms and loss of image as in multiplexes), it does not sell popcorn or hot dogs but it does have a film bookshop and I once entered to find only one (1) other person present for the film, although the audience later swelled to a total of three.

It is certainly better than Sky Movies.

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Graham did you watch 'Barbara' on BBC4?

Potiche (Trophy Wife) 2010.
The always watchable Catherine Deneuve combined with the not so watchable in this case Gerard Depardieu who is trying
to outdo Marlon Brando in 'Apocalypse now' as the most heaviest actor on a film set. When he tries to dance with
Catherine Deneuve, he can only do it sideways as his gut is in his way for any face to face stuff.
It is a comedy so maybe the director used his size to good effect :D

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Originally Posted by CL

Graham did you watch 'Barbara' on BBC4?

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No.

And now for some reason I feel that I should have!

Blue Jasmine - Enjoyed it.
It uses a 'Streetcar named Desire' as the main skeleton of the plot line. It has a couple of escapees from HBOs 'Boardwalk Empire' (the 'Kowalski' character and the dentist) but it took me a couple of minutes to clock Sally Hawkins an excellent British Actress (Made in Dagenham/ Happy-Go-Lucky)playing Ginger. I can see why Cate Blanchett got the oscar but there was some excellent support for her.

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Originally Posted by Alf

Blue Jasmine - Enjoyed it.
It uses a 'Streetcar named Desire' as the main skeleton of the plot line. It has a couple of escapees from HBOs 'Boardwalk Empire' (the 'Kowalski' character and the dentist) but it took me a couple of minutes to clock Sally Hawkins an excellent British Actress (Made in Dagenham/ Happy-Go-Lucky)playing Ginger. I can see why Cate Blanchett got the oscar but there was some excellent support for her.

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Buy me enough good wine and I will expound on la politique des auteurs at length, not that Woody Allen helps there, but Cate Blanchett was brilliant as the right actress in the right part with the right script and the right Director (same person) whereas Alec Baldwin was the wrong actor etc etc.

So three cheers to the Casting Director, the unsung hero/heroine (s) of the movie business. What? Who?

That's another on my list to see. It sounds good and I am a big fan of Cate Blanchett. Its date night tonight and we are off to see The Grand Hotel Budapest at the Curzon in Ripon. Really looking forward to it (and some good grub beforehand).

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Originally Posted by Alf

Blue Jasmine - Enjoyed it.
It uses a 'Streetcar named Desire' as the main skeleton of the plot line. It has a couple of escapees from HBOs 'Boardwalk Empire' (the 'Kowalski' character and the dentist) but it took me a couple of minutes to clock Sally Hawkins an excellent British Actress (Made in Dagenham/ Happy-Go-Lucky)playing Ginger. I can see why Cate Blanchett got the oscar but there was some excellent support for her.

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Saw The Grand Budapest Hotel last night and really loved it. Ralph Fiennes was a gem! I'd like to see it again, there will be all sorts of little details you'd see that you missed the first time around.

The secret in their eyes. Argentinian film with subtitles. Very good. Part thriller, part drama.

Some lovely artistic bits without getting all arty for the sake of it.

I think it's still available on the BBC i-Player.

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The secret in their eyes. Argentinian film with subtitles. Very good. Part thriller, part drama.

Some lovely artistic bits without getting all arty for the sake of it.

I think it's still available on the BBC i-Player.

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Its good alright, though surprised it won best foreign film, they usually like the touching drama stuff.

Thought the ending a bit stretched.

Has anyone seen Blackfish?

Finally watched 'Man of Steel' and I was a bit underwhelmed to be honest. I know its supposed to be an action film but most of the dialogue was really bad even for an action film. Maybe I have seen too many Superman films and am getting bored?

Argo, **** yourself.

Quite liked it.

Argo is certainly worth watching; it is based on a true story related to the Tehran hostage crisis. If you don't look up the plot then you'll be in for some entertaining late-70s/early-80s surprises.

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Argo is certainly worth watching; it is based on a true story related to the Tehran hostage crisis. If you don't look up the plot then you'll be in for some entertaining late-70s/early-80s surprises.

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I thought it was a cracking film

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Originally Posted by The devil's own

I thought it was a cracking film

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Indisputably. A well made Hollywood film.

Under the Skin, which I have just seen (starring Scarlett Johansson), was described by The Daily Telegraph as "straightforwardly a masterpiece".

That may be pitching it a bit high but it is certainly a film like no other and one to linger in the memory although one must not miss the opening 5 minutes, the last couple of minutes are stunning and you need to be conscious of the film's title throughout the intermediate 100 minutes.

We who live near to the National Media Museum (in Bradford) are fortunate to have a cinema nearby that will show movies without regard to popular appeal and in perfect viewing conditions. Under the Skin yesterday was shown in the IMAX auditorium.

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Has anyone seen Blackfish?

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Yeah, enjoyed it. I guess it shone a spotlight on something I never really thought about before, found it very watchable. Like those documentaries that tell an interesting story in a straightforward way, no need for too many reconstructions or use of cgi.

At the other end of the scale, saw World War Z.


Desperate nonsense. Truly desperate. Horribly clunky. Some inadvertent laugh out loud moments, like Brad Pitts phone going off or him standing on a can or broken glass every time he was told to be quiet.


Memorable for one of cinemas worst lines ever, "spines are divine but knees are just fine".

I can't think of another Chilean film I have seen but after watching Gloria (2013) I might check a few more out :cool:

Calvary: worth 100 mins of anyone's time. Very funny and very dark it left the Bradford Pictureville audience dumbstruck. Written and directed by "The Guard"'s John Michael McDonagh and again starring the brilliant Brendan Gleeson. Possibly overstuffed with rich characters set against a gorgeous Sligo landscape but a deliciously provocative script (which added one new word to my vocabulary, my having had a very sheltered upbringing and all).

And another film with a meaningful title.

finally got round to watching Hunger last night

deeply affecting
will stay with me
not entirely in a good way

Nebraska.


Wonderful wonderful wonderful.


Forget Fincher or the Coens, Alexander Payne is the best director of our generation

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Originally Posted by DazTheSlug

finally got round to watching Hunger last night

deeply affecting
will stay with me
not entirely in a good way

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Very, very good film. Though to this day I haven't found a film that has the staying power of Irreversible. Must be about 11 years since I first saw it, and it's still a harrowing image scorched onto my mind.

The Two Faces of January.

A well made Hitchcockian/Patricia Highsmith pastiche-or was it?- (even the soundtrack sounds (as soundtracks do) clichéd) that has been strangely over praised-perhaps reflecting the bulk of juvenile schlock that appears from Hollywood these days. A final gun chase in the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul and a death bed confession? Come on!

see if anyone knows/can guess (no googling!) which film I watched last night based on the last line of the credits before the fiction disclaimer:

"No flies were hurt during the making of the movie."

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Originally Posted by DazTheSlug

see if anyone knows/can guess (no googling!) which film I watched last night based on the last line of the credits before the fiction disclaimer:

"No flies were hurt during the making of the movie."

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The Fly ? :D

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Originally Posted by DazTheSlug

see if anyone knows/can guess (no googling!) which film I watched last night based on the last line of the credits before the fiction disclaimer:

"No flies were hurt during the making of the movie."

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Spiderman ? :D

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Originally Posted by DazTheSlug

see if anyone knows/can guess (no googling!) which film I watched last night based on the last line of the credits before the fiction disclaimer:

"No flies were hurt during the making of the movie."

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So, even though the film "loses focus in a poorly scripted courtroom anti-climax" you watched it to the final credits?

And you could have been watching John Sayles' staggeringly good Lone Star (1995) one of the great under recognised American films- possibly because of the power of its brilliant low key and surprising ending which many Americans would be very uncomfortable with.

Alf - 2 excellent guesses!

GB - I said no googling! although I agree re the courtroom stuff, there's a couple of moments with Kathleen Turner near the very end that are worth watching: where she snaps "Suzanne Somer, this is my BAD SIDE!" and where she smashes Patricia Hearst in the face with a telephone handset for wearing white shoes after Labor Day

I've seen Lone Star (twice) and found it underwhelming, mainly cos I found the Chris Cooper character to be rather wet and I didn't really care about him.

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Originally Posted by DazTheSlug

Alf - 2 excellent guesses!

GB - I said no googling! although I agree re the courtroom stuff, there's a couple of moments with Kathleen Turner near the very end that are worth watching: where she snaps "Suzanne Somer, this is my BAD SIDE!" and where she smashes Patricia Hearst in the face with a telephone handset for wearing white shoes after Labor Day

I've seen Lone Star (twice) and found it underwhelming, mainly cos I found the Chris Cooper character to be rather wet and I didn't really care about him.

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The quote was from my 2011 Time Out Film Guide. No longer published alas.

I think what I like about Lone Star is that it is so not-Hollywood and addresses serious themes. In fact it is so good I can understand why US teenagers, or whoever made up the cinema audience in the 1990s, did not flock to see it.

As for actors? Just cattle. (And at least one portly film director was very unpleasant).

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Originally Posted by DazTheSlug

Alf - 2 excellent guesses!

GB - I said no googling! although I agree re the courtroom stuff, there's a couple of moments with Kathleen Turner near the very end that are worth watching: where she snaps "Suzanne Somer, this is my BAD SIDE!" and where she smashes Patricia Hearst in the face with a telephone handset for wearing white shoes after Labor Day

I've seen Lone Star (twice) and found it underwhelming, mainly cos I found the Chris Cooper character to be rather wet and I didn't really care about him.

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I was also going to suggest 'Once upon a time in the West', the scene with Jack Elam at the beginning :D
but Kathleen Turner wasn't in that film so I had to look it up :o Coincidentally I was watching Kathleen Turner in 'Peggy Sue got married' a couple of nights ago :D

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Originally Posted by Alf

I was also going to suggest 'Once upon a time in the West', the scene with Jack Elam at the beginning :D
but Kathleen Turner wasn't in that film so I had to look it up :o Coincidentally I was watching Kathleen Turner in 'Peggy Sue got married' a couple of nights ago :D

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ooh we could have an ongoing theme - "Flies In Film" ;)

Kathleen Turner is more of a Movie Star than an actor - I have a fantastic publicity photo of her from Romancing The Stone - I'll dig it out and post a link...

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Originally Posted by DazTheSlug

ooh we could have an ongoing theme - "Flies In Film" ;)

Kathleen Turner is more of a Movie Star than an actor - I have a fantastic publicity photo of her from Romancing The Stone - I'll dig it out and post a link...

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Or we can have a Kathleen Turner theme which reminds me I must dig out my copy of 'Body Heat' :o

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Originally Posted by Alf

Or we can have a Kathleen Turner theme which reminds me I must dig out my copy of 'Body Heat' :o

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as promised:

http://forum.fellrunner.org.uk/attac...0&d=1400798293

Prizzi's Honor is nearing the top of my DVD pile too...

The Railway Man, excellent.

Went to see 'X Men Days of future past' tonight. I enjoyed it and even sat through all the credits so I could watch a couple of minutes of a taster for the next film in the series. First modern film I have seen in 3D so that added a bit of fun to it.