Film forum off topic/random chat thread

Sad Professor · 09-02-2015 02:25PM

BBC’s The Film Programme is hard to beat. Well produced with a nice balance of recent and older films, and crucially (for me at least) it doesn’t overstay its welcome. For more casual film related conversation, I also enjoy Fighting in the War Room (formerly Operation Kino).

Filmspotting is probably the most popular film podcast, so check that out as well. Personally I find it overlong and over-produced, but it’s still worth listening to from time to time.

e_e · 09-02-2015 02:27PM

/filmcast and Filmspotting are my favorite podcasts on current film. There's a great balance between them on the mainstream and the arthouse.

We Hate Movies is also very entertaining for reviews of terrible movies and weird cult cinema.

e_e · 09-02-2015 02:38PM

Sad Professor wrote: »

BBC’s The Film Programme is hard to beat. Well produced with a nice balance of recent and older films, and crucially (for me at least) it doesn’t overstay its welcome. For more casual film related conversation, I also enjoy Fighting in the War Room (formerly Operation Kino).

Hmm must check this out. First I've heard of it!

I'd say Kermode and Mayo's show is more popular than Filmspotting though, by a good amount too.

FunLover18 · 09-02-2015 06:20PM

Dr.Winston O'Boogie wrote:

So lads any reccomendations for a decent podcast on films? Thinking of something that talks about recent films, maybe talks about classics as well?

Mayo and Kermode is very good but I've heard people complain that there are too many in jokes which I get. I'm lucky to have been listenibg for 5 years now but that aside Kermode is an excellent critic.

The Empire Podcast is also enjoyable, they have good interviews and the discussions can be very good and funny. But they do a lot of stuff on the 'big' films. Their best thing is their spoiler specials which they don't do nearly enough, basically they'll just have an in-depth conversation about a new release. They're great.

e_e · 09-02-2015 08:17PM

I've been listening to the podcast for years and get the in-jokes but they've gotten really really annoying tbh with them never being that funny to begin with. I also don't like way you have to wade through half an hour of boring listener stories just to get to any film related stuff, shame because when they get there it's really good.

10-02-2015 06:41PM

Nailed the unfinished David O'Russell film which was shelved a number of years back is now available on VOD under the blander title Accidental Love

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

e_e · 10-02-2015 06:47PM

Was wondering why Gyllenhall looked so much more boyish in that trailer.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 10-02-2015 06:52PM

It's funny that the premise for that film no longer exists now Obama Care exists. I think.....

17-02-2015 09:36AM

Anyone know how booking tickets for IMC works? Do I need the card with me to collect them or do I get an email/text I can show? Waiting on a replacement card and can still use it on amazon and the like as I memorised the important details.

e_e · 17-02-2015 09:43AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Anyone know how booking tickets for IMC works? Do I need the card with me to collect them or do I get an email/text I can show? Waiting on a replacement card and can still use it on amazon and the like as I memorised the important details.

In IMC Dun Laoghaire you need a card for the ticket machines. But maybe you could go to the desk with your booking reference. I've had problems with machines in a few cinemas now but the ticket sellers have always been able to sort it out.

17-02-2015 09:45AM

e_e wrote: »

In IMC Dun Laoghaire you need a card for the ticket machines. But maybe you could go to the desk with your booking reference. I've had problems with machines in a few cinemas now but the ticket sellers have always been able to sort it out.

Hopefully it works, so much handier to book the tickets on line and not have to queue.

e_e · 18-02-2015 09:52PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpY7FxErwRI

http://www.dailydot.com/entertainment/director-blames-film-flop-on-social-justice-agenda/?tu=dd

Guy makes a laughable short film, blames the "social justice agenda" on it not winning awards.

18-02-2015 10:01PM

e_e wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpY7FxErwRI

http://www.dailydot.com/entertainment/director-blames-film-flop-on-social-justice-agenda/?tu=dd

Guy makes a laughable short film, blames the "social justice agenda" on it not winning awards.

Still superior to a lot of student films I've endured.

19-02-2015 12:44AM

Neill Blomkamp is officially directing a sequel to Aliens.

johnny_ultimate · 21-02-2015 11:54AM

It seems that next month, several months after it received a home release, Goodbye to Language 3D is getting a limited theatrical run! Bizarre situation, but at least more people will get to see the only 3D film that really matters as it should be seen

24-02-2015 03:59PM

Adi Shankar has released his latest bootleg film Power/Rangers. Directed by Joesph Kahn who directed the brilliant Detention and starring Kate Sachoff and James Van Der Beek it's a pretty damn cool short that I would love to see expanded upon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw5vcUPyL90

johnny_ultimate · 01-04-2015 01:11AM

Hideaki Anno (of Evangelion) and the director of the upcoming Attack on Titan film are working together on a new Japanese Godzilla film. The former is a fascinating choice - if he brings the smarts and subversive spirit of Evangelion over it could be something very special. Of course it could just be another conservative Japanese studio affair.

On the plus side, on the strength of the pair's recent short film, it should look great. If they carry over this sort of 'eccentric retro' effects work it could be very memorable: https://vimeo.com/64987176

16-04-2015 11:07AM

Figured that starting a thread for Eadweard would be a bit pointless as I imagine it would see at best a single post so decided that here was the best place for it. It's a film about Eadweard Muybridge who is widely considered to be the father of motion pictures. As a fan of Michael Eklund, it's nice to see him in a leading role in a nongenre picture and the story of Eadweard is incredibly interesting. Shame that this will most likely never see the inside of a theater here and may not even get a DVD release.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VAds0GH_8E

OldeCinemaSoz · 01-05-2015 10:57PM

It's almost amazing what you can source in car boot sales.

Or even charity shops. Take a scout. the crying game for a euro fifty. death weekend
on tape for two. how rare is that? on the vampix label no less and pristine. some c*hap
already offered me 80 quid. no dice.

I like that in a pilot. he'd want to up his ante.

pixelburp · 02-05-2015 04:00PM

Huh, I was going to wonder where my last post went from this thread, before realising I posted in the last, and much older, off-topic thread. D'oh.

e_e · 10-05-2015 12:25AM

Incredible.

johnny_ultimate · 11-05-2015 01:28AM

Fascinating article / interview on film restoration, focused on a restored version of The Apu Trilogy Criterion have recently finished:

http://www.avclub.com/article/how-film-restorers-brought-apu-trilogy-back-life-218781

Links234 · 11-05-2015 03:53PM

e_e wrote: »

Incredible.

I thought it was a funny scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED3Uvi4fZk4

pixelburp · 11-05-2015 04:28PM

What the hell?

e_e · 11-05-2015 05:46PM

Must give Freddie Got Fingered a go. Heard some people defend it pretty strongly as a kind of deranged masterpiece.

Sad Professor · 01-06-2015 06:05AM

Mickeroo · 11-07-2015 11:27AM

I had no idea this was happening >_< guess it's the final nail in the coffin of
Campbell & Raimi making a proper 4th movie but it looks potentially fun all the same, colour me cautious though:

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

Links234 · 11-07-2015 03:31PM

After the tragic My Name Is Bruce, I'm seriously gonna approach that with extreme caution and expectations in the negative digits.

pixelburp · 11-07-2015 04:58PM

Mickeroo wrote: »

I had no idea this was happening >_< guess it's the final nail in the coffin of
Campbell & Raimi making a proper 4th movie but it looks potentially fun all the same, colour me cautious though:

Funny, one of my pet peeves in TV circles is how shows will get a film director to helm the pilot, make it look absolutely fantastic, then the rest of the series ends up with the most pedestrian direction: this, possibly, with Sam Raimi, House of Cards (David Fincher), Boardwalk Empire (Martin Scorsese), Sleepy Hollow (ok, Len Wiseman is a total hack, but his cinematic approach was all over the pilots aesthetics); Game of Thrones kinda did it when they got Neil Marshell to direct the action-heavy episodes. Dunno why but it always feels like such a tease

e_e · 11-07-2015 06:01PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18qD9hmU9xg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOuU5siwdSQ

I could (and have) listen to this guy talk about movies for hours.

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