Cinema Trips: October
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kittiwakeMy favourite film of October is probably Midnight in Paris, but it was a close-run thing this month, with everything except Sleeping Beauty in the running. I just noticed that last month's post didn't say that my favourite film of September was Trollhunter.
Melancholia stars Charlotte Gainsbourg and Kirsten Dunst playing sisters facing the end of the world, as the planet Melancholia approaches ever nearer and threatens to collide with the Earth. As you might expect from the title, it was dreamy and melancholic..
Midnight in Paris is Woody Allen's latest film. An American screenwriter and would-be novelist visiting Paris with his shallow fiancee and her unpleasant parents goes through a time-slip and meets his literary heroes in 1920s Paris. A film about nostalgia and how the present never seems to live up to a lost golden age in the past.
Sleeping Beauty was not very enjoyable.
I haven't read We Need To Talk About Kevin even though it was such a popular novel, but i went to see the film and it was fantastic. A couple of days before I saw it, I heard Lynne Ramsey (the director) being interviewed about it, and I got the impression that she didn't really like the actor playing the teenage Kevin, even though she immediately knew he was perfect for the role. The way she described him it sounded as though she found him too similar to Kevin for comfort!
The Mayhem horror Film Festival
Japanese film Tomie: Unlimited is the eleventh film in a series based on a Manga about a girl who regenerates no matter how (or how often) she is killed. Always called, Tomie, in this film she she starts as a schoolgirl who is killed by falling scaffolding pole while her sister is taking pictures of her. But a year after her death, Tomie knocks at the door of her grieving family's house, and begins to manipulate everyone around her, killing and being killed, and regenerating in all sorts of strange ways. Unfortunately there was a problem with the subtitles at the start of the film, so I have no idea whether she talked like an ordinary girl or not before her death, or whether her sister already knew there was something strange about her. Seeing Tomie's father stuffing a hank of hair into his mouth made me retch, in fact just thinking about it makes me retch too. Is it just me, or is it something about hair that has that effect?
The H. P. Lovecraft Society filmed The Whisperer in Darkness in the style of a 1930s movie, filmed in black and white, with period credits, lighting effects and performances by the actors. They had adapted the story to make it a bit more visually exciting, including showing the monsters, which are only seen 'off-screen' in the original story.
Melancholia stars Charlotte Gainsbourg and Kirsten Dunst playing sisters facing the end of the world, as the planet Melancholia approaches ever nearer and threatens to collide with the Earth. As you might expect from the title, it was dreamy and melancholic..
Midnight in Paris is Woody Allen's latest film. An American screenwriter and would-be novelist visiting Paris with his shallow fiancee and her unpleasant parents goes through a time-slip and meets his literary heroes in 1920s Paris. A film about nostalgia and how the present never seems to live up to a lost golden age in the past.
Sleeping Beauty was not very enjoyable.
I haven't read We Need To Talk About Kevin even though it was such a popular novel, but i went to see the film and it was fantastic. A couple of days before I saw it, I heard Lynne Ramsey (the director) being interviewed about it, and I got the impression that she didn't really like the actor playing the teenage Kevin, even though she immediately knew he was perfect for the role. The way she described him it sounded as though she found him too similar to Kevin for comfort!
The Mayhem horror Film Festival
Japanese film Tomie: Unlimited is the eleventh film in a series based on a Manga about a girl who regenerates no matter how (or how often) she is killed. Always called, Tomie, in this film she she starts as a schoolgirl who is killed by falling scaffolding pole while her sister is taking pictures of her. But a year after her death, Tomie knocks at the door of her grieving family's house, and begins to manipulate everyone around her, killing and being killed, and regenerating in all sorts of strange ways. Unfortunately there was a problem with the subtitles at the start of the film, so I have no idea whether she talked like an ordinary girl or not before her death, or whether her sister already knew there was something strange about her. Seeing Tomie's father stuffing a hank of hair into his mouth made me retch, in fact just thinking about it makes me retch too. Is it just me, or is it something about hair that has that effect?
The H. P. Lovecraft Society filmed The Whisperer in Darkness in the style of a 1930s movie, filmed in black and white, with period credits, lighting effects and performances by the actors. They had adapted the story to make it a bit more visually exciting, including showing the monsters, which are only seen 'off-screen' in the original story.
