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Post by theatregoer22 on Sept 12, 2023 10:19:08 GMT
In previous years, if there’s been any guests like directors or actors, they will be introduced on stage before the film and say a few words, usually takes five to ten minutes at most but I’m not sure if there will be any of that this year due to the ongoing SAG strike (although I saw both Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard made appearances at the Venice Film Festival last week, so don’t know how that happened) Quite a few independent films have secured interim agreements with SAG so the actors can still promote them. Plus, directors aren't on strike so they can come and introduce the films that don't have interim agreements and productions that were never SAG (e.g. British productions) aren't affected by the strike at all. |
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Post by theatregoer22 on Sept 12, 2023 10:26:27 GMT
Only managed to get a ticket for The End We Start From on the Saturday morning as everything else I was interested in sold out. Hopefully I may be able to nab a few more in the next sale batch. I know a membership would have secured me more but as it stands I can't go to London as regularly as I would like, oh well there is always next year. Definitely do check when the next batch of tickets go on sale next Thursday at 10am. I'll also be checking the website periodically (already picked up two tickets to previously sold out screenings that way) and I'll shout here if I see more tickets pop up for currently sold out screenings. |
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Post by nottobe on Sept 12, 2023 11:19:37 GMT
Only managed to get a ticket for The End We Start From on the Saturday morning as everything else I was interested in sold out. Hopefully I may be able to nab a few more in the next sale batch. I know a membership would have secured me more but as it stands I can't go to London as regularly as I would like, oh well there is always next year. Definitely do check when the next batch of tickets go on sale next Thursday at 10am. I'll also be checking the website periodically (already picked up two tickets to previously sold out screenings that way) and I'll shout here if I see more tickets pop up for currently sold out screenings. Thanks. The only other two films that I am really wanting to see are All of us Strangers and Fingernails. |
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Post by hadeswasking on Sept 12, 2023 11:44:38 GMT
I've noticed they've started adding more price promise tickets for films that aren't selling as well at RFH. Including Book of Clarence and Holdovers have some! Worth having a look at the website if you're interested in these.
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Post by theatregoer22 on Sept 12, 2023 13:51:54 GMT
Definitely do check when the next batch of tickets go on sale next Thursday at 10am. I'll also be checking the website periodically (already picked up two tickets to previously sold out screenings that way) and I'll shout here if I see more tickets pop up for currently sold out screenings. Thanks. The only other two films that I am really wanting to see are All of us Strangers and Fingernails. I'll keep an eye out - I've already been checking the All of Us Strangers listing a stupid number of times in case a ticket pops up for the Tuesday screening (only one I can make unfortunately).
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Post by theatregoer22 on Sept 12, 2023 14:07:03 GMT
Got in and booked May December but I forget just how expensive it is when it all piles up so decided I'd stick with just that for now and hope for some deals later on. That was the only one I was really desperate to see since it coincides with my birthday and Haynes is one of my favourites as is Julianne Moore (probably my favourite actor tbh). The few others I might have been willing to pay top price for like All of Us Strangers and Monster were already sold out by the time I checked so hopefully with the rest I was interested in I can get lucky with the extra release later in the month or some under 25 releases the morning of the screenings. Glad you got your May December ticket. Do check again on 28 September for the other films and also sporadically on the website from time to time. |
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Post by theatregoer22 on Sept 12, 2023 14:07:41 GMT
I've noticed they've started adding more price promise tickets for films that aren't selling as well at RFH. Including Book of Clarence and Holdovers have some! Worth having a look at the website if you're interested in these. Typically I've already got my ticket for the Holdovers (price promise, but front row, so that's going to be interesting). |
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Post by theatregoer22 on Sept 12, 2023 14:08:46 GMT
The other thing the BFI have done in the past is put on another screening of a sold out film, so that's also something to look out for.
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Post by theatregoer22 on Sept 12, 2023 14:14:40 GMT
Is it the film itself that starts at the stated time, so any introduction would be before that? For the first screening of Galas and Special Presentations (and other films where they have them), in theory the introductions are meant to take place at the advertised start time, then the film starts a bit after that. However Galas especially are notorious for not starting on time. Second and third screenings of both usually start at the advertised start time. |
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Post by crowblack on Sept 21, 2023 16:20:38 GMT
Another query (sorry!), but how long does it take to receive a new BFI membership card? I took out membership at the start of the month but nothing in the (admittedly very erratic) post so far!
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Post by Marwood on Sept 21, 2023 21:38:53 GMT
I’ve been a BFI member since 2012: every year they’ve told me in advance they will be taking payment of the renewal of the membership fee and a new card has arrived before the expiry date, but this year the date on the card shows it expired at the end of August but no new card has arrived, I’ve mentioned this to a couple of members of staff at BFI Southbank and they had no idea why new cards hadn’t been sent out (I’ve still had members discounts in the shop and the bar but it’s shoddy all the same)
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Post by crowblack on Sept 21, 2023 22:05:26 GMT
I’ve been a BFI member since 2012: every year they’ve told me in advance they will be taking payment of the renewal of the membership fee and a new card has arrived before the expiry date, but this year the date on the card shows it expired at the end of August but no new card has arrived, I’ve mentioned this to a couple of members of staff at BFI Southbank and they had no idea why new cards hadn’t been sent out (I’ve still had members discounts in the shop and the bar but it’s shoddy all the same) Thanks, I'll print out the email and hope I can get the discounts and whatnot with that for the time being. |
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Post by theatregoer22 on Sept 22, 2023 17:59:38 GMT
I’ve been a BFI member since 2012: every year they’ve told me in advance they will be taking payment of the renewal of the membership fee and a new card has arrived before the expiry date, but this year the date on the card shows it expired at the end of August but no new card has arrived, I’ve mentioned this to a couple of members of staff at BFI Southbank and they had no idea why new cards hadn’t been sent out (I’ve still had members discounts in the shop and the bar but it’s shoddy all the same) Thanks, I'll print out the email and hope I can get the discounts and whatnot with that for the time being. In the cafe whenever I've said I'm a member they've just given me a discount without asking to see the card. |
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Post by theatregoer22 on Sept 23, 2023 17:37:00 GMT
A single ticket has just popped up for the afternoon screening of All of Us Strangers on 9 October.
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Post by theatregoer22 on Sept 23, 2023 17:41:57 GMT
Got in and booked May December but I forget just how expensive it is when it all piles up so decided I'd stick with just that for now and hope for some deals later on. That was the only one I was really desperate to see since it coincides with my birthday and Haynes is one of my favourites as is Julianne Moore (probably my favourite actor tbh). The few others I might have been willing to pay top price for like All of Us Strangers and Monster were already sold out by the time I checked so hopefully with the rest I was interested in I can get lucky with the extra release later in the month or some under 25 releases the morning of the screenings. There's currently one single ticket available for the Monday 9 October afternoon screening of All of Us Strangers if you see this before it goes. |
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Post by juicy_but_terribly_drab on Sept 23, 2023 18:12:25 GMT
Got in and booked May December but I forget just how expensive it is when it all piles up so decided I'd stick with just that for now and hope for some deals later on. That was the only one I was really desperate to see since it coincides with my birthday and Haynes is one of my favourites as is Julianne Moore (probably my favourite actor tbh). The few others I might have been willing to pay top price for like All of Us Strangers and Monster were already sold out by the time I checked so hopefully with the rest I was interested in I can get lucky with the extra release later in the month or some under 25 releases the morning of the screenings. There's currently one single ticket available for the Monday 9 October afternoon screening of All of Us Strangers if you see this before it goes. Aw damn, thanks for the heads up but looks like it's gone now. I have managed to book a good deal more films now though since the advanced under 25s tickets were released. I've got The Holdovers, The Zone of Interest, The Pot au Feu and Hit Man to look forward to now. I've been periodically checking all the sold out screenings but haven't caught anything like you just did though I'll keep trying since obviously they do show up even if rarely. |
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Post by theatregoer22 on Sept 23, 2023 18:47:45 GMT
There's currently one single ticket available for the Monday 9 October afternoon screening of All of Us Strangers if you see this before it goes. Aw damn, thanks for the heads up but looks like it's gone now. I have managed to book a good deal more films now though since the advanced under 25s tickets were released. I've got The Holdovers, The Zone of Interest, The Pot au Feu and Hit Man to look forward to now. I've been periodically checking all the sold out screenings but haven't caught anything like you just did though I'll keep trying since obviously they do show up even if rarely. Ah sorry to hear that. Do keep checking the website, especially at 10am this Thursday. Glad you've been able to get reasonably priced tickets to some other screenings though. |
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Post by Marwood on Sept 25, 2023 13:02:07 GMT
The BFI have announced that Martin Scorcese, Greta Gerwig and Emerald Fennell will be at the festival this year, so it might not quite the wasteland (celebrity wise) that people had been expecting.
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Post by Jon on Sept 25, 2023 13:05:57 GMT
The BFI have announced that Martin Scorcese, Greta Gerwig and Emerald Fennell will be at the festival this year, so it might not quite the wasteland (celebrity wise) that people had been expecting. Marty was always likely to turn up, I imagine they probably wanted Leo and DeNiro but TBH Leo rarely does much promos for his own movies. |
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Post by Marwood on Sept 26, 2023 12:41:34 GMT
I forgot tickets had gone on sale but still managed to get a ticket right at the back of the stalls for Martin Scorceses screen talk: probably the biggest name film director I will have seen in person , I’m over the moon.
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Post by juicy_but_terribly_drab on Sept 28, 2023 9:09:12 GMT
Had an alarm set for 20 to 10am thinking I'd get assigned a random place at 10am as would be customary with these online queue systems and I think how it worked when public booking opened earlier this month. Come to find I'm over 3000th in the queue despite it not being 10am yet. What's that about? I doubt I'll have much success getting anything I wanted now but I guess we'll see. I'll keep keeping an eye on them every day if I don't and there's always the on the day under 25s tickets if I'm lucky.
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Post by anthony40 on Sept 28, 2023 10:19:51 GMT
I am pretty confident that they always hold tickets back for each screening to be purchased on the day.
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Post by theatregoer22 on Sept 28, 2023 20:37:51 GMT
Had an alarm set for 20 to 10am thinking I'd get assigned a random place at 10am as would be customary with these online queue systems and I think how it worked when public booking opened earlier this month. Come to find I'm over 3000th in the queue despite it not being 10am yet. What's that about? I doubt I'll have much success getting anything I wanted now but I guess we'll see. I'll keep keeping an eye on them every day if I don't and there's always the on the day under 25s tickets if I'm lucky. They admitted on twitter (I refuse to use any other name for that site) that they accidentally let people onto the site early, so I think the queue started at 9am instead of 10am. Keep checking the website though in the run up to the festival as odd tickets for a lot of films do pop up. |
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Post by juicy_but_terribly_drab on Sept 28, 2023 23:10:54 GMT
Had an alarm set for 20 to 10am thinking I'd get assigned a random place at 10am as would be customary with these online queue systems and I think how it worked when public booking opened earlier this month. Come to find I'm over 3000th in the queue despite it not being 10am yet. What's that about? I doubt I'll have much success getting anything I wanted now but I guess we'll see. I'll keep keeping an eye on them every day if I don't and there's always the on the day under 25s tickets if I'm lucky. They admitted on twitter (I refuse to use any other name for that site) that they accidentally let people onto the site early, so I think the queue started at 9am instead of 10am. Keep checking the website though in the run up to the festival as odd tickets for a lot of films do pop up. I figured it was something like that. Frustrating but they've added a performance for All of Us Strangers and Poor Things which are on sale tomorrow so at least I'll have another chance at those (I'll make sure to queue an hour early just in case). I also ended up booking a documentary called Our Body as I've heard good things and I'd yet to book any docs. Hopefully it starts promptly though as I'll be cutting it close with my screening of The Holdovers that evening. |
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Post by crowblack on Sept 29, 2023 17:24:45 GMT
Btw, are you allowed to bring quiet snacks in, like a banana or tangerine? I've just seen a tweet about bananas being confiscated on the way in to a music gig, so I wondered! As you can probably tell, I haven't been to the BFI Southbank in years!
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