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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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Post by theatregoer22 on Sept 29, 2023 18:24:21 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! You can - they don't check bags at the BFI, only the Royal Festival Hall (and even then I'm not aware of security confiscating food).
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Post by theatregoer22 on Sept 29, 2023 18:25:30 GMT
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. I managed to snag a ticket to the extra screening of All of Us Strangers, but I noticed they sold out within about five minutes of going on sale to members.
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Post by juicy_but_terribly_drab on Sept 29, 2023 18:38:58 GMT
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. I managed to snag a ticket to the extra screening of All of Us Strangers, but I noticed they sold out within about five minutes of going on sale to members. Yeah I saw that and Poor Things too but they were sold out the second public booking opened so like you say must have sold out beforehand. I'm not giving up though!
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Post by theatregoer22 on Sept 29, 2023 22:57:19 GMT
I managed to snag a ticket to the extra screening of All of Us Strangers, but I noticed they sold out within about five minutes of going on sale to members. Yeah I saw that and Poor Things too but they were sold out the second public booking opened so like you say must have sold out beforehand. I'm not giving up though! If no-one buys the tickets they've set aside for people with access needs, they'll probably put them back on general sale. So do keep checking the website.
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Post by Marwood on Oct 2, 2023 13:20:30 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. My new membership card finally arrived this morning, so maybe they’re making an effort to send them out following the opening of festival bookings: unfortunately, due to the train strikes on Wednesday it looks like I won’t be able to attend the screening of You Can Call Me Bill.
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Post by crowblack on Oct 2, 2023 18:46:48 GMT
Thanks, I'll print out the email and hope I can get the discounts and whatnot with that for the time being. My new membership card finally arrived this morning, so maybe they’re making an effort to send them out following the opening of festival bookings: unfortunately, due to the train strikes on Wednesday it looks like I won’t be able to attend the screening of You Can Call Me Bill. That's a shame - hope you can get to the rest! Still no card here though our post is slow and intermittent.
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Post by theatregoer22 on Oct 2, 2023 23:40:23 GMT
My old membership card has just expired and I've not had the new one come through yet in the post.
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Post by juicy_but_terribly_drab on Oct 4, 2023 12:46:26 GMT
I'm chuffed because I just managed to snag a ticket to Monster this evening. Just kept refreshing the page every so often and happened to get lucky. Definitely instills more confidence that I still may be able to get tickets to some of those more elusive films but, even if I don't, I'm more than happy with the lineup I've managed to create!
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Post by theatregoer22 on Oct 4, 2023 18:10:07 GMT
I'm chuffed because I just managed to snag a ticket to Monster this evening. Just kept refreshing the page every so often and happened to get lucky. Definitely instills more confidence that I still may be able to get tickets to some of those more elusive films but, even if I don't, I'm more than happy with the lineup I've managed to create! Woo, I'm glad checking the website worked!
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Post by hadeswasking on Oct 5, 2023 14:55:38 GMT
Saltburn
Not quite in London yet but managed to catch this in Glasgow last night. From the first frame I was hooked. From the person that brought you the book of... Bad Cinderella? Comes an well-crafted. Witty, twisted and at some points utterly disgusting film. Every role is perfectly cast with the fantastic Barry Keoghan doing is weird little dude schtick. The surprisingly charismatic Jacob Elordi. Rosamund Pike and Richard E. Grant absolutely killing it with every line they're given and finally a scene-stealing extended cameo from Carey Mulligan. To me it felt like 'Parasite' meets 'The Favourite' two films in which I absolutely adored.
Even though I was in Glasgow I had a full-enthusiastic audience and it emphasised the magic off film festivals, there was even an applause at the end! I can assure you this isn't the Glaswegian-norm.
I have already seen the divide this film has caused, it is very much marmite. But I thought it was just so fantastic. Great start to hopefully a great 2 weeks of film festival goodness.
I hadn't seen Promising Young Woman but going to look it out now. Emerald Fennell did a fantastic job with this one.
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Post by Marwood on Oct 5, 2023 19:20:39 GMT
David Fincher was at the screening of The Killer tonight (looking like Colonel Sanders, not sure what that look is about) but none of the actors were: I wasn’t that impressed with the film, it took 2 hours to basically go nowhere, not helped by a protagonist who we know nothing about that uses a long line of sitcom pseudonyms (Archibald Bunker, Felix Unger and Sam Malone, amongst others), constantly listens to The Smiths on an iPod and continually spouts inanities about empathy, preparation and the likes: not Fassbenders fault but it was hard to give a monkey about a character with next to no background who basically kills everyone he comes into contact with: I’ll be generous and give it 6 out of 10.
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Post by theatregoer22 on Oct 6, 2023 19:54:37 GMT
Last minute tickets to previously sold out screenings are popping up on the BFI website the day before and day of said screenings. (If you're 16-25 you can get tickets on the day of the screening for £5 by logging into your u25 account).
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Post by foxa on Oct 6, 2023 19:58:28 GMT
I saw The Killer this afternoon and although it was well-filmed and there were a couple on well done set pieces, mainly it was a bit repulsive. As Marwood says, we know nothing about this cold hero so don't care about him, or anyone else really.Thought the reaction from the audiennce was very muted.
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Post by theatregoer22 on Oct 6, 2023 20:00:21 GMT
Saw The Killer today which I found a lot more entertaining than I'd expected and The Bikeriders, which I thought was all style over substance (apart from Jodie Comer, who put in a great performance).
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Post by solotheatregoer on Oct 6, 2023 20:56:37 GMT
Saw The Bikeriders today. Predictable plot (I know it's based on real events but I wasn't familiar with the background at all) but I thought all three leads put in good performances. Jodie was outstanding as always. Probably Tom Hardy's best performance in the last few years after a string of questionable showings. I am a fan of Austin Butler but to steal theatregoer22's phrase, it's all a bit style over substance. Almost like he's trying too hard.
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