Cinema Trips: April & May
Tuesday, May 31st, 2011 20:30![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittiwakeThis time there are several strong contenders for my favourite film, but they are so varied that my favourite is likely to change depending on my mood.
Attack the Block
Enjoyable British science fiction/horror movie, about a tower block on a South London council estate being attacked by shaggy black aliens with luminous turquoise teeth!.
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
I must say that the first scene, with the camera looking deep into the cave looked fantastic in 3D, and being able to see the shape of the walls on which the animals had been painted also worked really well. But overall I wasn't keen on it. For one thing it gave me a headache. For another, I was sitting towards the left of the cinema and was frequently distracted by pieces of scenery at the bottom left of the screen appearing to protrude out of the screen. When the scientists were being interviewed in their offices. the 3D looked layered, as though there was a person in the foreground, then a big gap then a backdrop; it didn't really look as if the room was a volume full of furniture, people and air. Lastly, the subtitles when people were speaking French were really distracting,as were the end credits. It was like looking into an aquarium with the words on the glass wall closest to you. So my basic problem with 3D is that it keeps breaking the spell, which I suppose doesn't matter too much when watching a documentary, but it would matter a lot for other films.
Hanna
A very enjoyable thriller, about a teenage girl on the run from the CIA. Saoirse Ronan is fantastic in the title role. I knew I recognised the girl who plays Sophie, so I looked her up on imdb and she played the teenager who fancied the rock star in "Tamara Drewe".
Little White Lies
French film about a group of Parisians holidaying in a wealthy friend's villa, while one of their group lies seriously injured in hospital. I found it reasonably enjoyable while I was actually watching it, but in retrospect it seems quite bland really.
Pina
Now this was a good use of 3D (and it didn't give me a headache). Wim Wender's documentary about the work of German choreographer Pina Bausch. Her dance company contained dancers of a wide range of sizes and ages, some of whom had danced with her for decades. Highly recommended to anyone who like dance.
Win Win
Loved it but the product placement was blatant! 'What are you doing?' 'Playing Wii Golf' (which didn't even make sense since what Terry was actually doing was looking up Kyle's wrestling stats on the Internet, and Mike already knew that, so why would he have asked?). And then it gets mentioned by name again later in the film.
Attack the Block
Enjoyable British science fiction/horror movie, about a tower block on a South London council estate being attacked by shaggy black aliens with luminous turquoise teeth!.
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
I must say that the first scene, with the camera looking deep into the cave looked fantastic in 3D, and being able to see the shape of the walls on which the animals had been painted also worked really well. But overall I wasn't keen on it. For one thing it gave me a headache. For another, I was sitting towards the left of the cinema and was frequently distracted by pieces of scenery at the bottom left of the screen appearing to protrude out of the screen. When the scientists were being interviewed in their offices. the 3D looked layered, as though there was a person in the foreground, then a big gap then a backdrop; it didn't really look as if the room was a volume full of furniture, people and air. Lastly, the subtitles when people were speaking French were really distracting,as were the end credits. It was like looking into an aquarium with the words on the glass wall closest to you. So my basic problem with 3D is that it keeps breaking the spell, which I suppose doesn't matter too much when watching a documentary, but it would matter a lot for other films.
Hanna
A very enjoyable thriller, about a teenage girl on the run from the CIA. Saoirse Ronan is fantastic in the title role. I knew I recognised the girl who plays Sophie, so I looked her up on imdb and she played the teenager who fancied the rock star in "Tamara Drewe".
Little White Lies
French film about a group of Parisians holidaying in a wealthy friend's villa, while one of their group lies seriously injured in hospital. I found it reasonably enjoyable while I was actually watching it, but in retrospect it seems quite bland really.
Pina
Now this was a good use of 3D (and it didn't give me a headache). Wim Wender's documentary about the work of German choreographer Pina Bausch. Her dance company contained dancers of a wide range of sizes and ages, some of whom had danced with her for decades. Highly recommended to anyone who like dance.
Win Win
Loved it but the product placement was blatant! 'What are you doing?' 'Playing Wii Golf' (which didn't even make sense since what Terry was actually doing was looking up Kyle's wrestling stats on the Internet, and Mike already knew that, so why would he have asked?). And then it gets mentioned by name again later in the film.
