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Post by Marwood on Sept 26, 2017 12:33:01 GMT
I've seen him at the LFF before (Youth in 2015, when Harvey Keitel, Paul Dano and um, Paloma Faith were also there), so I should be able to reign in my excitement and not shout out lines from The Italian Job and Get Carter...
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Post by Marwood on Sept 26, 2017 23:56:53 GMT
Have found out that Michael Caine is going to be at the screening of My Generation I'm going to at the Curzon the Kings Road - woot woot! And I'll also get to see Cillian Murphy, Timothy Spall, Bruno Ganz, Kristin Scott Thomas and Cherry Jones at The Party, Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin at Jabberwocky and Aidan Gillen at Pick-Ups: S. Craig Zahler will be at the screening of Brawl In Cell Block 99, but I'm hoping Vince Vaughn will be a late arrival to make this a grand slam of woot woots... |
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Post by callum on Sept 27, 2017 16:11:23 GMT
Anyone seeing The Meyerowitz Stories will get Baumbach, Sandler, Emma Thompson and Dustin Hoffman!
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Post by kathryn on Oct 4, 2017 17:14:08 GMT
Anyone else Breathe-ing tonight?
I am currently in Pret having a cuppa before getting in the queue.
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Post by rumbledoll on Oct 4, 2017 18:54:55 GMT
kathryn, Enjoy and let us know after! It's premiering over here in a month and I can't wait to see it!
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Post by kathryn on Oct 4, 2017 22:00:34 GMT
I came within a foot of Andrew Garfield on the red carpet and didn't jump him! Sadly I failed to take a picture too - I tried, but the camera didn't work.
Breathe is, be warned, very twee for the first ten minutes or so. Once you get past the opening it is really very good - touching, funny in places, excellent performance from our favourite Prophet and Claire Foy, but oh, those first ten minutes could really put a person off.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2017 7:50:48 GMT
Hooray glad you enjoyed! And as much as I'd like someone to have a 'pet Garfield' I guess we do kind of need him for a little play again next year, so it's probably for the best you didn't  |
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Post by rumbledoll on Oct 5, 2017 9:08:34 GMT
Well I'm not the one giving up on ANY film during first 10 minutes especially if there are a couple of my fave actors in it! So i'm safe, I'm just afraid I might flood the entire cinema in tears.. The way I do sometimes. And it that respect Breathe looks rather promising. ))
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Post by kathryn on Oct 5, 2017 9:23:51 GMT
Oh yes, there were definitely people in floods of tears at the end.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2017 10:12:20 GMT
Oh yes, there were definitely people in floods of tears at the end. Yes I know another forum member who is cursing Garfield's name for causing him to cry quite so much this year |
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Post by youngoffender on Oct 5, 2017 13:52:13 GMT
Based on what was shown at Telluride/Toronto but not on the LFF programme, most likely Surprise Films are probably:
Suburbicon
Lady Bird
Molly's Game
The Children Act
Looking forward to Lean on Pete tomorrow.
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Post by alicechallice on Oct 5, 2017 17:26:11 GMT
Does anybody want to buy my ticket for Gemini on Sunday evening at 18:00, Empire Haymarket? Happy to do mates rates.
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Post by Marwood on Oct 5, 2017 22:57:45 GMT
Saw the restoration of Jabberwocky tonight: enjoyable enough but the years haven't been kind to it to be honest, some fun moments but it does sag a bit in the middle (probably why it hasn't been shown much, if at all in recent years) but what a cast: Michael Palin, Max Wall, John Le Mesurier, Harry H Corbett, Bernard Bresslaw, Rodney Bewes, Graham Crowden, Brian Glover (to name just a few) - as Michael Palin said afterward, 'the only one missing from 70s comedy was Derek Nimmo and I based my performance on him'
Gilliam and Palin were on fine form (along with Annette Badland) in an all too brief Q&A afterwards (still don't know why Gilliam insists on wearing those awful Peruvian styled fleece jackets when he does public appearances though) - they had to clear out of the NFT1 for the Robert Pattinson film on straight after, and on leaving the BFI, who should get out of a car right by me as I walk out but R-Pattz himself to sign a lot of tat for his admiring hordes (well to be honest, there were 7 or 8 people waving some Twilight tat hoping to get it signed).
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Post by foxa on Oct 5, 2017 23:08:13 GMT
Ha, Marwood - as you were walking out of NFT1 I must have been getting ready to walk in. We saw the Pattinson film 'Good Time' and had, well, a good time. Q&A afterwards with director and Pattinson, but crowd, I would say very much not a Twilight group, though I did see a small group of fans gathered outside.
If you find yourself with some time to kill at the BFI, I recommend the mediatheque - the area where there are booths where you can watch a wide selection of films for free. We chose a silent film called 'A Cottage on Dartmoor.' Think my husband enjoyed that more than 'Good Time.'
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Post by callum on Oct 6, 2017 15:52:50 GMT
Also I've noticed that quite a few tickets for previously sold out screenings or events have been made available on the BFI website today, including the Cate Blanchett Q&A tonight. Perhaps keep an eye on the website if there's anything you want to see and have easy access to London.
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Post by Jon on Oct 6, 2017 16:03:59 GMT
Also I've noticed that quite a few tickets for previously sold out screenings or events have been made available on the BFI website today, including the Cate Blanchett Q&A tonight. Perhaps keep an eye on the website if there's anything you want to see and have easy access to London. I assuming it's tickets that didn't sell on the AMEX presales or house seats. I managed to secure tickets to Battle of the Sexes next weekend. |
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Post by kathryn on Oct 6, 2017 22:28:52 GMT
Well, I have to admit that this seeing a film every night malarkey is more tiring than I thought it would be - not helped by train trouble!
Mudbound last night - coming to Netflix and to a few cinemas - and Journey's End tonight, which should get a proper release. So basically it's been polio, racism/poverty/WWII and WWI this week. Really cheery stuff.
Journey's End is an adaptation of a play so I'm sure many here will be familiar with it. It never quite escapes its wordy roots despite Laurie Rose's gorgeous cinematography, but the performances are excellent.
We're seeing a comedy tomorrow - Bad Lucky Goat -and to be honest we need the laugh! Hope it's good.
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Post by Marwood on Oct 6, 2017 22:40:45 GMT
I couldn't make it to any of the festival films last year, and had forgotten about the totally uninspiring intro reel the BFI insists on running before every film they show at the festival - 'the best films in the world': you wouldn't think it from the dull clips they pick out. I have another four films to go, I'll be losing the will to live by the time the last one of those has come around.
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Post by n1david on Oct 7, 2017 17:30:42 GMT
Well I'm seven down as of Saturday night, and I've yet to see an absolute winner, and only one absolute clunker (The Maersk Opera, but it wasn't helped by the person next to me managing to knock their nearly-full glass of wine over me ten minutes in). I thought Journey's End was worthy, but struggled to escape what now seems like cliché in the context of so many WWI dramas. I know the original work was groundbreaking, but it no longer seems so, although this is an accomplished adaptation. Both my husband and I studied this at school (12 years and 400 miles apart), so if it's still on the curriculum it should have a decent life. 120bpm had that luscious French indulgence of telling a story at length (2.5 hours), which others can interpret as a lack of pace, but tells a good story of the political and the personal. I liked it very much but it won't be for everyone. Of the others; Rift is a curious but compelling Icelandic psychological thriller - very low-budget but punches above its weight; The Summit seemed like a TV pilot without the rest of the series (too many hanging stories) and Beach Rats struggled to break out of its indie gay roots to say anything very significant, although there was a great central performance by Harris Dickinson, who trained at a London drama school and did a handful of minor shows in London but now plays a blinder as a disaffected Brooklyn youth... Like kathryn above, I'm dying for a laugh, so I hope she enjoyed Bad Lucky Goat as I have that tomorrow. |
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Post by callum on Oct 7, 2017 23:43:22 GMT
@n1david if you're looking for a chuckle, then Brigsby Bear tickled me the other day if there are any more showings.
For myself, had a blast at The Meyerowitz Stories and Battle of the Sexes - both have top-rate casts at the top of their game with very experienced directors. Would definitely recommend people seek them out, though I don't think they'll be hard to find.
Wonderstruck was an odd beast but surprisingly not too twee and genuinely sweet and magical. Very original, and a film about children but for adults. And Cate Blanchett was just radiant at her Q&A, though she didn't reveal anything about All About Eve.
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Post by Jon on Oct 8, 2017 1:00:10 GMT
I'm looking forward to seeing Battle of the Sexes.
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Post by callum on Oct 8, 2017 1:11:43 GMT
A bit of advice to ask - I'm seeing a film at Curzon Mayfair at 12:45 that lasts 97 mins but I'm hoping to see a film at Odeon Leicester Square at 14:30. Should I give up hope of getting to LS in time or leave early and make a dash for it?
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Post by Jon on Oct 8, 2017 1:14:28 GMT
A bit of advice to ask - I'm seeing a film at Curzon Mayfair at 12:45 that lasts 97 mins but I'm hoping to see a film at Odeon Leicester Square at 14:30. Should I give up hope of getting to LS in time or leave early and make a dash for it? 97 minutes won't be including credits so I think you could leave once the credits appear but I don't know how far it is from Mayfair to OLS? |
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Post by callum on Oct 8, 2017 1:20:17 GMT
A bit of advice to ask - I'm seeing a film at Curzon Mayfair at 12:45 that lasts 97 mins but I'm hoping to see a film at Odeon Leicester Square at 14:30. Should I give up hope of getting to LS in time or leave early and make a dash for it? 97 minutes won't be including credits so I think you could leave once the credits appear but I don't know how far it is from Mayfair to OLS? 20 min walk or 8 minute drive along Picadilly apparently, though will be tight either way. |
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Post by kathryn on Oct 8, 2017 8:25:34 GMT
Bad Lucky Goat is my highlight of the festival so far. Charming film, very funny in places although it has a different pace than the comedies we usually get so the laugh-rate is lower. It didn't pass the 6 laugh test - but the 3 or 4 laugh-out-loud moments were proper guffaws. It's very much a character piece, about the misadventures of 2 siblings after accidentally killing a goat, with the island itself as much a character as the human cast.
Dark River is also about a sibling relationship, but while very well-made, well-acted and thought-provoking it is another depressing one. Ruth Wilson's character returns home to the family farm and her brother after the father who abused her as a child dies. The relationship with her brother is very well portrayed.
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