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A couple of flicks seen this week, in a relatively new venue to me, made most wonderful that for one of the films the only other viewer was a woman with an umbrella. She'd taken up home on a sofa seat, and fully lay down. I sat 3 rows behind her to avoid seeing her at all, although i sometimes...

The final weekend of the festival came to a decent end. As real life takes over again, one's memories wilt, but I shall do what I can to recall. The Saturday had just one flick, and that didn't seem right. So, of course, Fulham Road cineworld came a calling. It's about an hour's cycle, and has a...

Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World - this is a documentary by Werner Herzog about the horrors of and uncontrollable growth of the Internet. He came out before the screening and told us that he is not an Internet user, yet knows a lot of what is going on. The documentary spoke in the...

I remember having a look on a list of your favourite films some time back, and thinking that you had some rather good ones on there, so we're not as opposite as you hope. :)

So, t'day before yesterday, I was a tad annoyed with some removal men. My devious plan was to have them there in time for me to then leave for London's centre and catch a film at midday. A call was received to tell me they were running late. Gee willakers, I thought, you spoiler of cinematic...

A day and a bit off of the festival, missing out on two likely crackers, but sometimes you just have to do something. And it was right to. Anywhy, I got back into it this evening with two films. The Unknown Girl - I had high expectations for this one. The Dardenne brothers have made some high...

Thank you. I did feel a bit on my lonesome here. Today, I saw three films. Not the three I wanted to though. I am flying off very early tomorrow morning, so I thought it a tad foolish to watch a Romanian film until close to midnight when the alarm is going off at 5.30am. Annoying, as I very...

Ok, i've begun to fall asleep here and there in one or two of the 7 films i've seen over the last 2 days. It's not their fault, really. It's the damn subtitles. I've realised that's what does me in, reading for 8 hours, and i should've known before. Anywho, the tickets have been bought and i...

I seem to be making the same, slightly joyous yet painful, mistake every year. I've over-bought for the film festival. It's only the morning of day 3 and my brain says NO MORE. Still, some good things seen thus far. Indivisible - Italian conjoined twin drama, in which the parent have used their...

It's been a troublesome few days. This doesn't greatly relate to film, although some of the thoughts that went through my mind were partly engineered by the innocent thrust into madness that so many flicks have told of. All that happened was the moving into a new flat. We didn't want to leave...

So, it's been a while. And during that while I've been to see, in the cinema, like, 3 films. The difficulty, of course, is in remembering precisely what went on. So, in chronological order it was: The Shallows - what I recall of it was an annoyance at that American style of family that appears...

Cinemas I go to keep seeming to have electrical problems. Today it was Vue, for which I had a £7.90 voucher ticket. The voucher stood, but I was able to take a free drink. Or at least I think I was, as whispers came down the lengthy queue to say as such. There was only one member of staff there...

If some of you recall, last week was a scorcher. On the Tuesday I went to the work in the morning, but speedily decided to check the holiday spreadsheet to see if the afternoon was free to take. Bingo, it were. What can one do in burning temperatures other than go to the cinema. The only mistake...

Remakes are generally tiresome fare, but for me, now at least, i am unhurt by the thought of a cherished memory tainted by its reinvention on screen. What i am saying, unclearly, is that the new Ghostbusters didn't bring dread to me because it may have tampered with all that the 10 year old...

Forgetfulness is an awful thing. Especially so when you've forgotten how much you used to dislike something, and there it is again in front of you and you think HMMMM I HAVE A FEELING I DIDN'T LIKE THAT BUT MAYBE NOW THAT I AM DIFFERENT I'LL APPRECIATE IT MORE. Absolutely Fabulous. An appalling...

Booked yesterday off of work to get over a batch of weekend and evening overtime sessions that have worn me out. So, a brief and crooked jog in the morning, followed by a haircut at my unchatty Turkish barbers, and a lengthy snooze. Come evening time i had my fortnightly piano lesson, in which i...

Went along to the Lumiere cinema all the way back on Monday, and i think i might want to go there again. A lovely place, only £8 a ticket, and very few punters. Annoyingly in South Kensington, but i'll give it a go if they have what i fancy seeing on. This time around it was, firstly, the rather...

My little brother sometimes contacts me to suggest we go catch a flick at the BFI. I always agree, and this time it was to a 1950s Brazilian film called Black Orpheus. I'll talk of that shortly. Before seeing that, though, after finishing a sad Saturday of overtime, i had about 4 hours to kill...

Oh i know that. I was put off of the film by everyone in the cinema finding her being out of tune just hilarious, when i didn't. I found it a terribly sad tale, to reside in this fantasy and have all around you kowtow to your every whim for their own ends.

Tis true, and i pondered that a little this morning. But just as much as an audience can drag you in, they can also send you away. Whilst watching Florence Foster Jenkins, for instance, those around me caterwauling with laughter from the off at someone singing out of tune sent me into an area in...