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slemslempike) wrote2009-08-27 09:43 am
slemslempike) wrote2009-08-27 09:43 am
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See Looking for Eric
When we went to the theatre-that-doubled-as-a-cinema-sometimes in Peterborough, my mum used to count the other patrons and be worried if there weren't very many. I realise that this is the way one should approach venues with rickety funding, but frankly my response to a remotely full cinema is GO HOME AND STOP BREATHING NEAR ME. Yesterday I went to see Sunshine Cleaning, which I liked , and was very pleased that my conviction that Rose would show up to the baby shower only to find out that she was supposed to clean up after them was not correct (though I could have done without so much of the child, and also with regard to Winston, firstly why did they hire a two-armed actor to play a one-armed man, and also I was expecting a relationshop to develop between him and Rose, and I'm not entirely sure why they didn't have that) , and a group of people came and sat very near me, then their friend showed up LATE and sat right next to me, which I always hate when it is not very close to capacity because I think it looks like I've tried to glom onto their group by sitting near them.
A few weeks ago I saw Flame and Citron and Katyn, both very involving films about resistance in the second world war. Flame and Citron are two people in the Danish resistance whose job it is to assassinate Nazis and informers. Then they discover that they have been given orders to shoot people that their boss happens to want dead, and they've been killing innocent people. So they go rogue to kill Nazis, but it goes a bit wrong and they have to go and hide away separately. The last bit of the film is both of them suddenly being surrounded by what seems like hundreds and hundreds of German soldiers and either taking a cyanide capsule or deciding that though there is no hope of escape he should take out as many of them as possible. Katyn is set in Poland, and confused me because I am not used to having two lots of baddies in WW2 films, and they had Nazis and Soviets. The end of this film is what seems like hours of Polish officers being killed one by one and pushed into a huge mass grave, unable to do anything at all and then being covered up by mud pushed in by diggers.
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irrtum I made her come and see Bandslam as something that was not going to end quite so harrowingly. Which it didn't, BUT it does have a scene where the boy wrenches a book from a girl and throws it on the floor, and THEN he stands her up to go out with the pretty girl instead. I did not warm to any of the characters and the music they performed was really dull. The Dukes are now showing films that are slightly more cheerful (before next week, which seems to mark the start of a "very very violent" season), and I saw The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, which mostly I did not see the point of. It was fine, and funny in places, and I didn't mind the places where they tried to be moving too much, and the acting was not awful, but it was mostly... fine. However, earlier this week I saw Looking for Eric, which I nearly didn't because I don't know anything about football, and it was BRILLIANT. Lovely funny interesting film about modern masculinities, and power and class, and male friendship and support.
A few weeks ago I saw Flame and Citron and Katyn, both very involving films about resistance in the second world war. Flame and Citron are two people in the Danish resistance whose job it is to assassinate Nazis and informers. Then they discover that they have been given orders to shoot people that their boss happens to want dead, and they've been killing innocent people. So they go rogue to kill Nazis, but it goes a bit wrong and they have to go and hide away separately. The last bit of the film is both of them suddenly being surrounded by what seems like hundreds and hundreds of German soldiers and either taking a cyanide capsule or deciding that though there is no hope of escape he should take out as many of them as possible. Katyn is set in Poland, and confused me because I am not used to having two lots of baddies in WW2 films, and they had Nazis and Soviets. The end of this film is what seems like hours of Polish officers being killed one by one and pushed into a huge mass grave, unable to do anything at all and then being covered up by mud pushed in by diggers.
So when I went to see
irrtum I made her come and see Bandslam as something that was not going to end quite so harrowingly. Which it didn't, BUT it does have a scene where the boy wrenches a book from a girl and throws it on the floor, and THEN he stands her up to go out with the pretty girl instead. I did not warm to any of the characters and the music they performed was really dull. The Dukes are now showing films that are slightly more cheerful (before next week, which seems to mark the start of a "very very violent" season), and I saw The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, which mostly I did not see the point of. It was fine, and funny in places, and I didn't mind the places where they tried to be moving too much, and the acting was not awful, but it was mostly... fine. However, earlier this week I saw Looking for Eric, which I nearly didn't because I don't know anything about football, and it was BRILLIANT. Lovely funny interesting film about modern masculinities, and power and class, and male friendship and support.