#21

Isle of Dogs?

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#22

I understand that is the only film playing, yes

#23

Very disappointing. I at least thought they might do a limited UK cinema release for us.

#24

Iā€™m sorry I dunno why Iā€™m being wide at you two posts in a row Iā€™ll play nice :wink:

#25

Are test-screening audiences ever not complete idiots?

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#26

Interesting.
Risk-aversion and internal politics basically.
Dickheads.

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#27

any standouts other than the obvious? I kinda assumed Iā€™d be too late but it turns out tickets are only three days in advance, which is kinda good actually

https://www.berlinale.de/en/programm/berlinale_programm/programmsuche.php

#28

sorry everyone but I actually saw Phantom Thread last night. literally with PTA and Jonny Greenwood (they were interviewed before by Kermode). and with the LCO doing Greenwoodā€™s score live.

I was also in a lift with Richard Ayoade on the way out.

anyway. the film itself! i will just spoiler the whole lot so as not to give anything at all away:

i enjoyed it a lot. Kermode said beforehand itā€™s now his new favourite PTA. I wouldnā€™t go that far, but itā€™s a very smart film, obviously looks great and has some nice directorial tocuhes (this is not really shit iā€™m overly bothered about thoughā€¦) - it is nicely tense throughout i thought which really kept me engaged.
i found that the audience laughed way too much at bits that to me just seemed like Woodcock was basically being abusiveā€¦ maybe because PTA was there and everyone wanted to show how clever they were. anyway, it does have some funny bits, mostly Lesley Manville who is great throughout. anyway, i still think i preferred Coco.

when Jonny and PTA came out at the end the guy next to me went ā€˜thereā€™s jonny! andā€¦ that geezer, the directorā€™. wonder what he made of the film.

oh yeah the score is obviously lovely too - very restrained and ā€˜romanticā€™ -
Jonny is more versatile than i expected

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Phantom Thread
#29

Saw Three Billboards last night. Simultaneously agree with almost all of the criticisms Iā€™ve read elsewhere - tonally confused, Sam Rockwellā€™s overacting, heavy-handed on the race stuff - but also loved it. I really liked In Bruges and 7 Psychopaths, though.

I am a bit confused as to why itā€™s quite so acclaimed but I think thatā€™s my prejudice, assuming that Best Picture nominees necessarily have to be hard-slog movies. Whereas considering the subject matter and the violence, itā€™s actually quite a lot of fun. ā€˜Funā€™ in that very specific, McDonagh way though.

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#30

I agree thereā€™s a lot of criticisms you can make of Three Billboards, but if the people mad over the whole ā€˜redemptionā€™ stuff in the film ever watched The Lives of Others, their heads would probably explode.

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#31

Has anyone watched Kingdom of Us on Netflix? Really interesting doc about a large family dealing with something tragic and sudden occurring. Hard not to spoil but I even managed to overcome my phobia of posh children and was really taken by it.

#32

Not gonna read any spoilers but did you like it/10?

#33

Someone needs to close the January thread right?

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#34

thought we were meant to go back to the january thread if we watch a january release
what a mess

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#35

No, theyā€™re just threads to post in in the month in question

#36

Good thing bugduv brought it up, seems to be really enjoying the new format

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#37

I really liked this too, did a Q&A with Desiree and she was very nice. Her new film was at Sundance and has got some very good reviews - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jan/23/the-miseducation-of-cameron-post-review-sundance-2018-chloe-grace-moretz

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#38

Iā€™m going to a horror movie allnighter tomorrow. P excited. Lineup is:

An American Werewolf in London
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
The House on Sorority Row (1983 version)
Troll 2
and a surprise movie

Been to a couple of these in the past, organised by the same guy. He usually balances the programme really well, so you get stuff thatā€™s scary but also more comedy type stuff.

The last one I went to had a mystery movie, which was some cut-n-paste thing called Night Train to Terror, with a new framing sequence which was punctuated by a band shooting a music video. It was super weird and totally 80s,

Anyway, Iā€™m really excited! Of these ones, Iā€™ve seen Troll 2, but none of the others.

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#39

This sounds ace, how late do you stay up? I struggle watching two films in a row in the cinema to be honest.

#40

Starts at 11pm, will finish around 8am I think?

Itā€™s pretty intense, lots of people bail before the end. When Iā€™ve been in the past Iā€™ve slept for a few hours beforehand, but even then by the end everything has this added heft. The last one I went to, the final film was Miracle Mile, which is this great 80s nuclear war film. Itā€™s quite heavy as youā€™d expect, but after staying up all night? Jeez.