Film forum off topic/random chat thread

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johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Cineworld's farcical pricing means its excessive advertising is thankfully not something I find myself enduring very often.

In my case its the price to pay for seeing films averaging at around 2 euro a go with my unlimited card.

The amount if ads before films has out me off going to the cinema lately. I've yet to see Interstellar or The Homesman, a film I really want to see but I don't want to have to watch 20 minutes if ads before the feature presentation. I'm considering importing the French Blu-ray of the latter as it won't cost much more than the price if a cinema ticket and will be ad free. I love the cinema, it's my favourite place in the world but the excessive ads and trailes full of spoilers are hard to take.

OldeCinemaSoz

It's QUEER. I picked up the SEVENER HITCKCOCK today at BLACK FRIDAY. Perusing the discs I smiled
wryly how THE FRENCH could rate FRENZY a 12. Indeed, as their coda regarding anything Nazi memorabilia gets a 16,
it's all very SUSPECT.

And WE all thought FRANK HALL was A WANKER?!?!?!

charlie_says

Deleted User wrote: »

The amount if ads before films has out me off going to the cinema lately. I've yet to see Interstellar or The Homesman, a film I really want to see but I don't want to have to watch 20 minutes if ads before the feature presentation. I'm considering importing the French Blu-ray of the latter as it won't cost much more than the price if a cinema ticket and will be ad free. I love the cinema, it's my favourite place in the world but the excessive ads and trailes full of spoilers are hard to take.

I usually have a quick game of backgammon on my phone whilst those pesky ads are going.

The anti-piracy ones take the f*cking biscuit though. I would download a car if I could....

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

charlie_says wrote: »

I usually have a quick game of backgammon on my phone whilst those pesky ads are going.

The anti-piracy ones take the f*cking biscuit though. I would download a car if I could....

I remember the ones that used to be on videos when you rented them. You wouldn't steal a pizza? I bloody would!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63VRJQYcNn0

Love this series that Criterion puts out. This one is particularly insightful and passionate.

OldeCinemaSoz

My biggest failure during that halcyon SUMMER OF '83 was
introducing the porno into the late night mix.

Indeed, where DUEL and ZABARISKE POINT used to be at least
watched, now only BIG BOY JOHN HOLMES was just wanted.

FATAL.

Birneybau

OldeCinemaSoz wrote: »

My biggest failure during that halcyon SUMMER OF '83 was
introducing the porno into the late night mix.

Indeed, where DUEL and ZABARISKE POINT used to be at least
watched, now only BIG BOY JOHN HOLMES was just wanted.

FATAL.

YOU'RE mental.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRdHmB-EH9o

Such a strange trailer, making it look a lot wackier than it actually is. I kinda like it though.

GAAman

OldeCinemaSoz wrote: »

My biggest failure during that halcyon SUMMER OF '83 was
introducing the porno into the late night mix.

Indeed, where DUEL and ZABARISKE POINT used to be at least
watched, now only BIG BOY JOHN HOLMES was just wanted.

FATAL.

Why DO you POST
like THAT

SERIOUSLY?!

OldeCinemaSoz

I've always thought that, despite the hated, that RANDY CRAWFORD's theme CHOON for
the excellent and very underrated SHARKEYS MACHINE is possibley the BEST OF the '80s?

WONDERFUL.

johnny_ultimate

I see Goodbye to Language is out on Blu Ray tomorrow - but that means it has skipped a full theatrical release What a shame - was very much looking forward to experiencing the sensory assault on the big screen again. And it means fewer people will get to see it in mandatory 3D, unless they own a 3D TV!

On the plus side, at least I can start trying to decipher the narrative properly

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Yeah missed the French Film Festival screening but thought "ah sure it's gonna play a week in the IFI anyway.". I really wanted to see what Godard was gonna do with 3D but am not gonna shell out on a TV for that sake. :mad:

johnny_ultimate

Yeah genuinely surprised it didn't get a theatrical release, even bearing in mind Godard isn't the most commercially viable of directors (although GTL has been a big arthouse hit in the States). Typical that the one film that legitimately needs a cinema screening doesn't get one! Very relieved I got to see it at the one Irish screening it looks like it's getting.

And yes, definitely not buying a 3D set for the one film that makes the cursed technology worthwhile :pac:

Mickeroo

Anyone familiar with Every Frame A Painting on youtube? Might be nothing revelatory for those of you who studied film but for someone like myself who might not pick up on every little detail I find them very interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPAloq5MCUA

There's loads more centered around different films, directors and actors.

ancapailldorcha

Mickeroo wrote: »

Anyone familiar with Every Frame A Painting on youtube? Might be nothing revelatory for those of you who studied film but for someone like myself who might not pick up on every little detail I find them very interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPAloq5MCUA

There's loads more centered around different films, directors and actors.

Fantastic series. I've only seen the one about Edgar Wright but that was enough to get me interested.

pixelburp

Mickeroo wrote: »

Anyone familiar with Every Frame A Painting on youtube? Might be nothing revelatory for those of you who studied film but for someone like myself who might not pick up on every little detail I find them very interesting:


There's loads more centered around different films, directors and actors.

Yup, they're an excellent series, as you say they're probably bread & butter to some, but I've found them super-informative: the one on Michael Bay was particularly fascinating given it's not everyday people try to legitimately parse what it is Bay does in his films (and his copycats fail to do). I had been holding off watching the one on Snowpiercer as I had yet to see it and didn't want anything spoiled.

Side note: Snowpiercer was bloody fantastic, and the idea Weinstein wanted to butcher it at all seemed pretty disgraceful.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8lQKLjmoWI

This one was excellent.

pixelburp

It's quite a detailed article, but below is a fascinating read none the less about the various uses of miniatures in Interstellar's FX: say what you will about Interstellar's narrative, I thought its FX was pretty fantastic, and it's hard not to suggest that was part due to Nolan's preference towards more physical FX work.

http://www.fxguide.com/featured/real-and-raw-the-miniature-fx-behind-interstellar/

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

pixelburp wrote: »

It's quite a detailed article, but below is a fascinating read none the less about the various uses of miniatures in Interstellar's FX: say what you will about Interstellar's narrative, I thought its FX was pretty fantastic, and it's hard not to suggest that was part due to Nolan's preference towards more physical FX work.

http://www.fxguide.com/featured/real-and-raw-the-miniature-fx-behind-interstellar/

When Anne Hathaway and McConaughey were on Graham Norton they mentioned that there was very little CGI in the film. Hathaway even demonstrated one of the very high tech methods they used to achieve the zero gravity effect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqcsCw-O7Qw

charlie_says

Mickeroo wrote: »

Anyone familiar with Every Frame A Painting on youtube? Might be nothing revelatory for those of you who studied film but for someone like myself who might not pick up on every little detail I find them very interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPAloq5MCUA

There's loads more centered around different films, directors and actors.

Does anyone know the film at 0:46?

charlie_says

charlie_says wrote: »

Does anyone know the film at 0:46?

It's Alien 3

charlie_says

Ah yes now I remember. Decent flick.

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20 Great Films You (Probably) Didn't See in 2014

Surprisingly decent list by Empire here.

Pieces of Talent is one of the finest low budget genre pictures to come along in years and it's director Joe Stauffer has uploaded the film online so that people can watch it for free. Really is a great little film and well worth your time.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFfq2zblGXw

These Every Frame a Painting videos are so beautifully edited.

tricky D

Map: How Hollywood Has Destroyed America

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/map-how-hollywood-has-destroyed-america-1542969906

The Black Oil

Every Frame A Painting is great. Has anyone been watching the THR roundtables? I've watched two.

The first is with directors, for once I agree with Youtube comments. The guy moderating is a plonker and interrupts too much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xkh982zFm8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVEVotw627I

This one with the studio execs is interesting, with a little corporate BS, naturally. Didn't realise the World Cup was a challenge for them.

OldeCinemaSoz

Random thought select.

STROLLING by THE CURZON on ABBY ST during
the mid '70s and DRAGGING THE HEELS while viewing
THE FOH STILLS of JUDY'S LITTLE NO-NO.

I always thought I WAS IMAGING THINGS.

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