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Post by Marwood on Oct 18, 2018 21:08:43 GMT
So, Dragged Across Concrete: I don’t know what genius at the BFI thought it was a great idea to screen a film running the best part of three hours at a quarter to nine on a week day evening ( and then starting ten minutes after then without so much as a sorry or even an excuse me for its late start), but good God, what an awful, joyless, dimly shot film - not an ounce of excitement to proceedings, and it just seemed a terribly grim, dull and just plain racist film. I bailed after 45 minutes - only the second time I’ve left a cinema screening early but nothing I saw made me think it would be worth me paying for a cab/Uber the other side of midnight just to say I saw this a few months before most other people.
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Post by callum on Oct 18, 2018 22:44:39 GMT
Another think about EGC - any time someone on your row fidgets or moves in their seat, the whole block of seats that are joined together get shook around like one of those rollercoaster simulator rides. *whispers*... I’m starting to miss Odeon Leicester Sq!
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Post by asfound on Oct 19, 2018 6:49:18 GMT
So, Dragged Across Concrete: I don’t know what genius at the BFI thought it was a great idea to screen a film running the best part of three hours at a quarter to nine on a week day evening ( and then starting ten minutes after then without so much as a sorry or even an excuse me for its late start), but good God, what an awful, joyless, dimly shot film - not an ounce of excitement to proceedings, and it just seemed a terribly grim, dull and just plain racist film. I bailed after 45 minutes - only the second time I’ve left a cinema screening early but nothing I saw made me think it would be worth me paying for a cab/Uber the other side of midnight just to say I saw this a few months before most other people. I'm really looking forward to this after Bone Tomahawk and Brawl in Cell Block 99. Joyless and grim sounds right up my street. You'll have to excuse me if I take your review of a quarter of the film with a pinch of salt. I heard people say the same things after leaving Mandy and All the Gods in the Sky early, and those were great. |
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Post by Marwood on Oct 19, 2018 8:17:17 GMT
So, Dragged Across Concrete: I don’t know what genius at the BFI thought it was a great idea to screen a film running the best part of three hours at a quarter to nine on a week day evening ( and then starting ten minutes after then without so much as a sorry or even an excuse me for its late start), but good God, what an awful, joyless, dimly shot film - not an ounce of excitement to proceedings, and it just seemed a terribly grim, dull and just plain racist film. I bailed after 45 minutes - only the second time I’ve left a cinema screening early but nothing I saw made me think it would be worth me paying for a cab/Uber the other side of midnight just to say I saw this a few months before most other people. I'm really looking forward to this after Bone Tomahawk and Brawl in Cell Block 99. Joyless and grim sounds right up my street. You'll have to excuse me if I take your review of a quarter of the film with a pinch of salt. I heard people say the same things after leaving Mandy and All the Gods in the Sky early, and those were great. I thought Bone Tomahawk and Brawl were both great which made this all the more disappointing- having one lead character shouting out ‘anchovies!’ for some unknown reason and the other stressing about his daughter getting raped when she is older for no reason other than the potential rapists are black did not make for riveting viewing. It’s one thing for a film to set out to be slow burning, and another for next to nothing of any note to happen in the first forty five minutes of a film. Anyway, going to see Mandy tomorrow - expecting great things (well greater than DAC anyway) |
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Post by ellie1981 on Oct 19, 2018 8:23:52 GMT
Etangs Noirs was at 70 minutes, one of the most tedious and pointless films I’ve ever seen. The last half of the film is literally watching a man on a metro train walk about from carriage to carriage. Might as well just put a hidden camera on anyone when taking the tube.
The White Crow was ambitious but pacing was all off until the last 40 minutes. It was lovely to see Ralph Fiennes talk about it in the intro though as he was clearly very passionate and quite emotional about getting it made.
Best films so far for me have been Wild Rose, Beautiful Boy and Colette.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2018 20:45:18 GMT
Ranked:
1. If Beale Street Could Talk
2. Widows
3. The Favourite
4. Suspiria
5. Roma
6. Beautiful Boy
7. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
8. Vox Lux
9. Green Book
All nine worth at least one watch. And I'll likely watch the top 8 again. Beale Street is another masterpiece from Barry Jenkins and the only 5* of the year for me. What a talent.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2018 21:33:20 GMT
I agree that Beale Street is a masterpiece, just a stunning piece of filmmaking that lives up to the hype and has to be in Oscar contention next year.
In contrast, I quite liked the Favourite but didn't think it quite lived up to the hype - it went too far for me in places to the point where I didn't find parts of it as amusing as a lot of the audience seemed to. Really great performances from the three leads though, Olivia Coleman especially.
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Post by ellie1981 on Oct 21, 2018 16:39:03 GMT
Finished my final day now. Did have tickets to Stan & Ollie tonight but I’m just exhausted so sold them. Full rankings for everything I’ve seen:
1. If Beale Street Could Talk
2. Wild Rose
3. Colette
4. Beautiful Boy
5. The Hate U Give
6. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
7. The Favourite
8. Roma
9. The Old Man and the Gun
10. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
11. Widows
12. The White Crow
13. Destroyer
14. After The Screaming Stops
15. Nancy
16. The Front Runner
17. Lizzie
18. Life Itself
19. Etangs Noirs
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Post by nialld on Oct 21, 2018 17:25:48 GMT
Agree with others that Wild Rose was phenomenal, Jessie Buckley is such a star! I love the LFF and always wish I could see more but managed to fit in 7 films this year, my rankings:
1. Wild Rose
2. The Favourite
3. The Kindergarten Teacher
4. Destroyer
5. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
6. Wildlife
7. Been So Long
Really hard ranking as I really enjoyed all of them, apart from Been So Long which I thought was pretty awful.
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Post by kathryn on Oct 21, 2018 20:47:05 GMT
Agree that If Beale Street Could Talk is stunning, and also loved Wild Rose. The Fight was very good today, too.
Actually I don’t think I’ve seen a really bad film this year. I have discovered that my patience/concentration runs out at about 9pm on multiple film days and I should probably stop booking anything that starts after 8pm if I’m seeing stuff during the day - particularly galas, which always start late. Getting home at gone midnight several days on the trot is exhausting - especially when I have to go to work during the day. I’m pretty sure that the 3 films I enjoyed the least would have been more enjoyable earlier in the day/on more sleep. I found Wildlife very slow - though I swear Carey Mulligan is going to get an Oscar nod; Duplicate was fine but not as interesting as it thinks it is; and The Man Who Killed Don Quixote underwhelmed me and simply outstayed it’s welcome. But I don’t think any of them were bad.
As always, I can’t be doing with rankings.
It was great to see Border, Amra and the Second Marriage, and Rafiki as I just wouldn’t get them at my local cinema. They Shall Not Grow Old was a hell of an experience - I was sat 4 rows behind William and had an excellent view of the Royal Baldspot, Very much enjoyed Sometimes Always Never, The Fight, and A Private War - I am hoping that they get a wider audience. Pretty sure A Private War is going to campaign heavily for awards (they have Annie Lennox doing an original song over the end credits) so it should get wide coverage. There's posters for Mirai all over town so that is obviously getting a wider release - a rather lovely film for kids. And there’s no doubt that Beautiful Boy will be all over awards season - and deservedly so.
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Post by n1david on Oct 22, 2018 9:37:33 GMT
1. Papi Chulo
2. The White Crow
3. Vox Lux
4. El Angel
5. Benjamin
6. The Favourite
7. Sauvage
8. Consequences
9. The Front Runner
99. Been So Long
Not a vintage LFF for me...
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Post by Snciole on Oct 27, 2018 20:23:40 GMT
I only saw Mr Soul! this year which was an odd film, it was unsure if it wanted to be about Ellis Haizlip or the whole production. It had some great archival footage but it felt to me they were playing conspiracy about its demise when it looks like the show hadn't progressed from 1968 to its cancellation in 1973 when the civil rights movement/its audience had.
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