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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭e_e


    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. ;)


  • Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ Lilith Witty Plumber


    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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 829 ✭✭✭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?!?!?!


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭charlie_says


    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....


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,913 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    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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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭e_e




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


  • Registered Users Posts: 829 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,206 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭e_e




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


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,370 ✭✭✭GAAman


    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?!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 829 ✭✭✭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.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,029 CMod ✭✭✭✭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 ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭e_e


    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:


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,029 CMod ✭✭✭✭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:


  • Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,073 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭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:



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


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 36,787 CMod ✭✭✭✭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:



    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.

    We sat again for an hour and a half discussing maps and figures and always getting back to that most damnable creation of the perverted ingenuity of man - the County of Tyrone.

    H. H. Asquith



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 35,723 CMod ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭e_e




  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 35,723 CMod ✭✭✭✭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/


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,913 Mod ✭✭✭✭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.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭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:



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

    Does anyone know the film at 0:46?


  • Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ Lilith Witty Plumber


    Does anyone know the film at 0:46?

    It's Alien 3


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭charlie_says


    Ah yes now I remember. Decent flick.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭e_e


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

    Surprisingly decent list by Empire here.


  • Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ Lilith Witty Plumber


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭e_e




    These Every Frame a Painting videos are so beautifully edited.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,700 ✭✭✭tricky D




  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 18,173 CMod ✭✭✭✭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.





    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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 829 ✭✭✭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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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭e_e


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