JDIFF

Renn

A load of meh after a quick glance. Only one that interests me is The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu. I would recommend Woody Allen's one though.

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Cavehill Red

The launch was pants, even with loads of free whiskey.

Just saying.

Michael Dwyer, where are ye?

johnny_ultimate

Line-up definitely isn't jumping out at me, I must admit

Wouldn't mind checking out the new Takeshi Kitano film, the Housemaid perhaps as a curiosity watch as I just watched the original a few weeks ago, and (predictably) a new Herzog film, but yeah, pretty meh.

And they've actually chosen to show Ocean's 12 in the 'classics' section? Really?

Renn

Ha yeah, the Ocean's inclusion is pretty desperate.

delbertgrady

It's very poor. Sure, you can't please all the people all the time, but this is definitely their weakest bill ever. So many reissues and old films. They can say that some of them are rarely seen and they're all nice new prints, but, frankly, so what? They never showed so many before, and it screams "filler".
I'm only going to five films so far (way below my usual), including the aforementioned Woody Allen, though the fact that it's out on Region One DVD a week earlier, I was in two minds. But it's nice to see his stuff in the cinema with other fans.
Ocean's Twelve is on solely because writer George Nolfi is in town for The Adjustment Bureau the night before, and they want to get their value out of him. Fair enough. But he wrote The Bourne Ultimatum as well, and I know far more people who'd pay to see that in the cinema again, as opposed to the Ocean's sequel, which is surely the most bizarre inclusion in the festival's history.

johnny_ultimate

Renn wrote: »

Ha yeah, the Ocean's inclusion is pretty desperate.

I'd raise an eyebrow over the inclusion of Ocean's Eleven, but Twelve is by all accounts a piece of ****. What a waste of a programming slot.

Sad Professor

I completely missed last year's festival, but going to make a real effort to go to some screenings this time.

Oh, and Ocean's 12 - one of the handful of times I've walked out of a cinema. Breaking the fourth wall = cardinal sin of cinema.

.0

I'm pretty sure there's a mistake in the programme. It says the Surprise Film in 2006 was The Jacket, and that The Squid and the Whale played in 2005.

But The Squid and the Whale definitely played in 2006. That was the first year I went.

And I thought Mad Dog and Glory played one of the years. Was The Jacket ever the Surprise Film?

delbertgrady

Mad Dog and Glory was the Surprise Film one year (1994?) in the "old" Dublin film festival.
Since its revival as the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival, the surprise films have been:

2003 Buffalo Soldiers
2004 Starsky and Hutch
2005 The Jacket
2006 The Squid and the Whale
2007 300
2008 The Escapist
2009 Hamlet 2
2010 Greenberg

Renn

Sad Professor wrote: »

Breaking the fourth wall = cardinal sin of cinema.

I've seen a handful of Woody Allen films lately and it works for him. But I'll let him know that he's doing it all wrong.

Renn

Maybe it's just on my end but do some of the logos on the pdf look pixelated to you guys?

Scrap that - does the whole thing look pixelated?

Very, very poor line up. Only a handful of films I would go see and many of them I've all ready seen. Stakeland is one of the few interesting choices, reviews thus far are very positive.

Outrage, Kitano's new film is well worth a look for those who have yet to see it.

I'm interested in Essential Killing, Agnosia, Adèle Blanc, Submarino, The Way and a few of the documentaries they're showing but overall it's a very poor lineup, the poorest of the past decade.

Renn

Oh yeah, Submarino would be another one I'd recommend..was meant to see it at the Berlinale but didn't have time to fit it in. I know they're leagues apart but it's funny when you compare it to a festival like that - last night I ended up only buying the one ticket but with the Berlin one it was a case of trying to narrow it down so you don't end up broke. But yeah, it's a silly comparison to make so nevermind me.

Renn

Renn wrote: »

Oh yeah, Submarino would be another one I'd recommend..was meant to see it at the Berlinale but didn't have time to fit it in. I know they're leagues apart but it's funny when you compare it to a festival like that - last night I ended up only buying the one ticket but with the Berlin one it was a case of trying to narrow it down so you don't end up broke. But yeah, it's a silly comparison to make so nevermind me.

One is an internationally renowned festival the other feeds on scraps from internationally renowned festivals.


I'm interested in seeing Men of Arlington as I know many of the lads in it (my uncle co-foudned it) and Peter has had many a meal in my family home. I've actually been planning a doc on the Aisling project for while now, have interviews with some of the lads going back years..

Decuc500

I'm pretty disappointed with the line-up as well. There's way too many documentaries and Romanian films (and Romanian documentaries!). The first Friday night in Cineworld is a choice between two documentaries which is just bizarre. No crowd pleasers on a Friday night?

I think the programmers personal tastes are all over this line-up as opposed to showing what the average punter would be interested in seeing. But you can't please everyone...

But there are a few films I'm looking forward to. The new Takeshi Kitano and Luc Besson films, Fair Game, The Eagle, Stake Land, Point Blank. There's a few interesting sounding Spanish films there as well so it's not all bad.

JP Liz V1

Emilio Estevez and Martin Sheen will attend the screening of their film "The Way" no mention of Charlie Sheen showing up also he is probably too busy in Vegas with hookers

JP Liz V1

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Emilio Estevez and Martin Sheen will attend the screening of their film "The Way" no mention of Charlie Sheen showing up also he is probably too busy in Vegas with hookers

Why would Charlie Sheen be there, the film was written adn directed by Emilio and Stars Martin, absolutly no reason for Chralie to be in attendance.

JP Liz V1

Deleted User wrote: »

Why would Charlie Sheen be there, the film was written adn directed by Emilio and Stars Martin, absolutly no reason for Chralie to be in attendance.

I know he isnt in the film but it is his brother's film and stars his father

Renn

Did you seriously just post that? Jesus.

bnt

One documentary I'm interested in seeing is Harry Shearer's The Big Uneasy, about the flooding of New Orleans in 2005 after Hurricane Katrina. Shearer is slated to be there - I just hope nobody's dumb enough to ask him about The Simpsons ...

Kingp35

Does the unlimited cineworld card work for the Festival films being shown there?

There a couple I want to check out but I don't have the money to pay for them since I am already paying for my card.

Renn

Nope.

Miguel_Sanchez

Renn wrote: »

Maybe it's just on my end but do some of the logos on the pdf look pixelated to you guys?

Scrap that - does the whole thing look pixelated?

The pdf looks terrible.

I think I'm only going to go see films that start with 'Submarin' this year.

johnny_ultimate

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Emilio Estevez and Martin Sheen will attend the screening of their film "The Way" no mention of Charlie Sheen showing up also he is probably too busy in Vegas with hookers

Please don't derail threads with off topic 'observations', cheers.

Jimdagym

Am I the only person looking forward to the early showing of the adjustment bureau??

JP Liz V1

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Please don't derail threads with off topic 'observations', cheers.

Okay getting back to serious movie talk, I enjoyed Emilio Estevez's previous film Bobby he is another who seems to be more suited behind the camera as director and writer and Martin is a decent actor - I would like to get up to see this

An article on the film and the actors

http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2010-10-21-sheenestevez22_ST_N.htm

alastair

I like the documentaries! One of my festival highlights was 'My father, the architect'.

Kinda irritating that the brochure claims 5 and 10 ticket discounts, but when you get to the purchase page online, it's 5 or 10 'evening' tickets. Bought 10 tickets, but only got the 5 ticket discount.

Here's my line-up (can't really do weekday screenings):

The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
Outrage (Autoreiji)
Children of the Revolution
Adèle Blanc
The Bridge On The River Kwai (Restored print Lean on the big screen - had to do it)
The Housemaid (Hanyo)
Build Something Modern
Julia's Eyes (Les Ojos de Julia)
The Way
Surprise Film (For the annual let-down. They've all been damp squibs bar the two Noah Baumbach's.)

Decuc500

Jimdagym wrote: »

Am I the only person looking forward to the early showing of the adjustment bureau??

I would have been but it clashes with an interesting Spanish horror film. There's very few genre films on show and when they are on it seems to be at the same time as each other.

The Glasgow film festival is on at the same time and they're showing Animal Kingdom. Would have loved to have seen that instead of one of the many docs on show, but that's just me.

johnny_ultimate

Decuc500 wrote: »

The Glasgow film festival is on at the same time and they're showing Animal Kingdom. Would have loved to have seen that instead of one of the many docs on show, but that's just me.

Got the IFI brochure in the post today, and Animal Kingdom is out there in February, so not much point when the general release clashes

For anyone curious, the original Housemaid is available to watch over on Mubi for free if you sign up. It's melodramatic as hell, but endearingly so. Definitely curious to see how they handle a contemporary version.

Decuc500

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Got the IFI brochure in the post today, and Animal Kingdom is out there in February, so not much point when the general release clashes

Thanks, didn't know it was out so soon.

mikhail

Jimdagym wrote: »

Am I the only person looking forward to the early showing of the adjustment bureau??

Yes. :P

Renn

Decuc500 wrote: »

There's way too many documentaries and Romanian films (and Romanian documentaries!).

Just noticed this comment...

There's five Romanian films, 6 Latin American, 7 French...don't really see what the issue is. Plus there's just the one Romanian documentary and it looks like it's the only interesting thing going at the festival. Romanian cinema has given us some pretty good stuff over the past few years - not saying that what we've got is the best but you can't really knock it.

Decuc500

Renn wrote: »

Just noticed this comment...

There's five Romanian films, 6 Latin American, 7 French...don't really see what the issue is. Plus there's just the one Romanian documentary and it looks like it's the only interesting thing going at the festival. Romanian cinema has given us some pretty good stuff over the past few years - not saying that what we've got is the best but you can't really knock it.

I wasn't being serious with the Romanian documentary comment. It could be good, I don't know.

My issue was with the amount of documentaries on show. I have a season ticket and will be seeing as many films a day as I can. I just think if the choice for a particular time slot is between two documentaries and maybe one narrative film it's not really a choice if you don't really like documentaries. And looking through the brochure this happens a bit.

But as I said, you can't please everyone.

Syferus

bnt wrote: »

One documentary I'm interested in seeing is Harry Shearer's The Big Uneasy, about the flooding of New Orleans in 2005 after Hurricane Katrina. Shearer is slated to be there - I just hope nobody's dumb enough to ask him about The Simpsons ...

Because that would be so unclout! It would honestly be like interviewing Hitler and exclusively talking about his art career. Expect both The Simpsons and Spinal Tap to feature if there's a Q&A, my good sir.

johnny_ultimate

Never trust the public at Q & As. When I was at the David Lynch one, someone wasted a valuable question asking 'What's your favourite film of yours?'.

They are generally a good opportunity, but my advice is if you have a good question make sure you ask it, as you certainly can't rely on others.

Renn

Tbh, I don't see why he would be talking about anything but The Big Uneasy...

JP Liz V1

Kevin Spacey is also at this - has he a film at the festival?

bnt

Renn wrote: »

Tbh, I don't see why he would be talking about anything but The Big Uneasy...

I agree, but like johnny_ultimate said, never trust the audience! I expect he'll get questions about Spinal Tap too. :rolleyes:

I'm keen on seeing Luchino Visconti's Beautiful too, as well as Kitano's Outrage. His hana-bi is still on my Top 10 favourite film list.

BigBenRoeth

Just had a look through the programme,none of the so called "Classics" are films that really deserve to be in that category,looks like a poor lineup

Miguel_Sanchez

bnt wrote: »

I agree, but like johnny_ultimate said, never trust the audience! I expect he'll get questions about Spinal Tap too. :rolleyes:

There's always some idiot who'll ask immensely stupid questions or waffle on endlessly to try and let everyone know how much they themselves know about the film or the filmmaker.

Heard about Keir Dullea at the 2001 screening in the IFI last year who, after speaking for a while about working on the film and acting with 'HAL', was asked by some moron 'So did you play the computer then?'.

Andre80Johnson

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Kevin Spacey is also at this - has he a film at the festival?

Think they are showing an old film of his and some Q & A. One of my mates is working there, said that's what it was.

I'm looking forward to seeing Ballymun Lullaby. Sounds intriguing and guess it should be fun.

delbertgrady

In yet another elitist move, the screening of The Usual Suspects with the Kevin Spacey Q&A is by invitation only, with the remaining tickets allocated by lottery via Facebook.

http://www.jdiff.com/index.php/news/story/the_jameson_cult_film_club_-_the_usual_suspects/

This is ridiculous. This is at least the fourth such occasion where they have done this type of lottery allocation for tickets. While I don't dispute the calibre of guests that have attended the festival over the years, there is a definite pattern emerging wherein the organisers evidently decide that certain guests would be very high demand or have mass appeal, and so they are done this way - the others being the Clive Owen event a few years ago, the premiere of Death Proof with Quentin Tarantino and the premiere of The Town with Ben Affleck & Rebecca Hall.
To add insult to injury, the latter two were screened completely separately from the main festival (in The Town's case, it was in September) but were treated as "festival screenings", presumably as they were excellent PR exercises and would allow them to list the relevant people as previous guests of the festival in any future literature.
They have had other screenings outside February as well, like the premiere of Mike Leigh's Another Year, but Leigh is apparently not special enough to have people attend by lottery alone, as we were allowed buy tickets for that.
How gracious of them.

e_e

Am glad Norwegian Wood was added! Even though it could be a grave disappointment.

johnny_ultimate

e_e wrote: »

Am glad Norwegian Wood was added! Even though it could be a grave disappointment.

I've been dying to see that for a few months now. Was getting a release in Japan just as I left - wouldn't have made a difference because I don't speak the language anyway, but all the publicity material got me hyped up! But, as is often the way with these things, the one film I genuinely wanted to see clashes with a concert I'm going to tomorrow night. In fact, at least three interesting films - Norwegian Wood, Cave of Forgotten Dreams and the curious sounding Attenburg - are all on tomorrow evening, the one night of the festival I can't go

Picked up my tickets for the week today anyway. Going for six: Outrage, Archipelago, The Tingler (should be a lark!), Submarino, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (perhaps foolishly!) and The Housemaid. Hopefully there'll be some keepers in that bunch.

e_e

Myself:

Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Norwegian Wood
Outrage
The Big Uneasy
Poetry
Incedies
Surprise Film (Just for the atmosphere really, wasn't fond of the previous surprises)

Andre80Johnson

I'm watching:

Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Really wished Herzog was attending, have serious love for the man)
Ballymun Lullaby
Fair Game
The Adjustment Bureau

And finally I was lucky enough to win tickets to The Usual Suspect screening with Kevin Spacey Q & A afterwards.

There are interesting seminars set up to learn more about Films & Filmmaking in general if anybody seems interested.

Hank_Jones

Anyone know if there are any tickets left for any of the special events that are on?

Was hoping to go to the screenwriting one tomorrow, but it's all booked out.

johnny_ultimate

Very much enjoyed Outrage! Often prefer Kitano's more reflective fare to his gangster movies, but this was thoroughly engaging (and uncomfortably violent!) stuff. Odd but effective soundtrack was a highlight.

e_e

Cave of Forgotten Dreams - Best use of 3D I've ever seen and another to add to the list of great Herzog films
Norwegian Wood - An overwrought and empty bore, and this is coming from somebody who loved the book.
Outrage - Good fun. Lots of ultraviolence, cool suits, nice electronic score and of course Tekeshi Kitano!

johnny_ultimate

e_e wrote: »

Cave of Forgotten Dreams - Best use of 3D I've ever seen and another to add to the list of great Herzog films
Norwegian Wood - An overwrought and empty bore, and this is coming from somebody who loved the book.
Outrage - Good fun. Lots of ultraviolence, cool suits, nice electronic score and of course Tekeshi Kitano!

Heard from someone else that Norwegian Wood was a bit of a disappointment (although said the cinematography was very pretty) That's a shame, my enthusiasm for it has been dampened somewhat now!

jaykhunter

Dang. Gutted I couldn't get tickets for The Tingler; been locked in a bubble these last few weeks thanks to exams. Man that's gonna be immense. Maybe some other time...:(