Not exact matches
My local
cinema had 24
screenings of the thing on Friday night, so I picked one
of the many sell -
outs and went along on my own to watch it and try to figure
out just why it is so popular.
A firm favourite with Westminster insiders and political obsessives across the country, The Thick
of It's first
cinema outing hits
screens on April 17th.
If there's ever a re-release in a
cinema near you, take advantage
of the big
screen to get the most
out of this visual masterpiece.
With great writing for each character on -
screen, some fine directing, and a premise that takes a few chances (even though not nearly enough), this is s piece
of cinema worth checking
out.
Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner
of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages
of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop
of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns
of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks
out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means
of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind
of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent
cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth
Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family
of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode
of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.
Pop up
cinemas around London have completely sold
out of this Christmas
screening which is no surprise!
It
screens at Sundance London this May, and then hits
cinemas in mid-June, but before Ari Aster can scare the bejesus
out of you with the Toni Collette chiller, he's lined up his -LSB-...]
Ratner grew no less shy this weekend, according to Twitter and several Vulture sources: After a
screening of his film Tower Heist at L.A.'s Arclight
Cinemas, the director came
out for a Q&A, and when asked by the moderator whether he prepares and rehearses with his actors before shooting a scene, Ratner waved his hand dismissively and said, «Rehearsing is for fags.»
I walked
out of the
cinema after watching Hail Caesar thinking i'd just experienced some kind
of weird acid trip on the
screen.
Jacques Rivette's
Out 1 (Kino Lorber / Carlotta, Blu - ray + DVD) has been one
of the Holy Grails
of international
cinema since its premier
screening in 1971.
It's not often you hear an audience
of movie critics gasp
out loud at something on -
screen, but Toni Erdmann, the new comedy
of forced familial closeness from German director Maren Ade, has a comic moment so perfectly timed that it got the civilized
cinema - set
of New York City to jump
out of their seats like this was an Evil Dead movie in 3D.
On the big
screen, however, the few all -
out recent efforts have garnered some
of the coldest receptions in
cinema history.
The accidental similarity, plain as day on paper, becomes even plainer on the
screen: Minutes into the film, stage and
cinema veteran Simon Axler (Al Pacino, himself a veteran
of both Broadway and Hollywood) ambles
out of his dressing room, the camera following close behind; gets locked
out of the back entrance
of the theater, and must come in through the front; and dramatically inflicts some violence upon himself before a shocked live audience.
Screening everything from high - profile, celeb - heavy red - carpet - gala premieres
of big Hollywood movies to the very best in independent
cinema from around the world, the hub
of the LFF is in and around Leicester Square in the West End, but the festival also branches
out to include local movie houses all over London.
This 1930s - set Woody Allen film tells
of a woman (Mia Farrow) who falls in love with a character (Jeff Daniels) who steps
out of the
screen at the
cinema, only to find herself also being wooed by the actor playing said character (also Jeff Daniels).
Today was a pretty intensive day
of back - to - back
screenings with no breaks, meaning I made the mistake
of not eating or drinking anything until 5:30 pm, when I gobbled down some fast food and nearly passed
out in a boiling hot
cinema.
Ahead
of its one night only theatrical release next month, a UK poster has arrived online for Shin Godzilla along with a batch
of images from the 29th film in Toho's iconic kaiju; check them
out below, and head on to the official site for an updated list
of cinemas screening the movie on August 10th... SEE -LSB-...]
In a mysterious
cinema, an audience are watching a brutal horror flick when the horror rips
out of the
screen, unleashing a swarm
of slathering Demons who are intent on spreading their evil plague across the globe.
Things improve with a fight played -
out in a
cinema screening Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker, fisticuffs literally tearing through the fabric
of the
screen for a witty irruption
of its transcendent finale.
The signature programming — including the Dragons & Tigers line - up
of more than 30 features from Asia, the Spotlight on France sidebar, and the Canadian Images» focus on homegrown
cinema — remains intact but largely packed into the first week and a half
of screenings (before a number
of theaters drop
out of the line - up).
Not
screened for critics and slid into a bizarre Sunday release slot, Ryan Daley hit the local
cinema to check
out Summit Entertainment's The Darkest Hour, the Chris Gorak - directed alien invasion pic that follows five young people who find themselves stranded in Moscow, fighting to survive in the wake
of a devastating alien attack.
The
cinema was tiny: twelve rows deep from the blacked -
out wall and the shadowed doorway down to the empty
screen, which had started to bother him now, a kind
of hanging absence.
Get ready for a book trailer that wouldn't look
out of place on a
cinema screen.
A handsome 8 - seater dining table crafted
out of recycled wood stands on one side
of the living room, an open kitchen sits in the back and a lounge / TV corner furnished with circular rattan chairs and a huge flat -
screen cable TV is found on the other side
of the room but there is still more Up on the first floor, youll discover an entertainment area where you can play billiard or get comfy on one
of the sofas to watch a movie or two in the evening on the home
cinema set.
Enjoy... Read more the freedom
of the city with 24 HOURS Check - in, Security, Guest kitchen & hang
out areas with games and huge
cinema screen!!
A handsome 8 - seater dining table crafted
out of recycled wood stands on one side
of the living room, an open kitchen sits in the back and a lounge / TV corner furnished with circular rattan chairs and a huge flat -
screen cable TV is found on the other side
of the room but there is still more... Up on the first floor, you'll discover an entertainment area where you can play billiard or get comfy on one
of the sofas to watch a movie or two in the evening on the home
cinema set.
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screens are XXX ratings, levels are introduced by the same guy who did every grindhouse movie trailer and the plot is so over the top that it could only have come
out of exploitation
cinema.
There seems to me to be a fruitful tryst between a dramatic art
of absolutes and tabulae rasae, à la Rothko and Newman, with the cool new vistas opening
out from blown up imagery fresh from
cinema screens and giant advertising hoardings.
And the lineup
of films —
screening at Nitehawk
Cinemas, Videology, the Wythe Hotel and UnionDocs — offers some fresh reels that haven't already been
outed by other festivals.
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Screening & Talk: Jane Wodening: the former Jane Brakhage speaks about her life in and
out of cinema ACAC / 7 - 10 pm
... In the end... if you believe in the
cinema experience, if you believe in going
out of your house and experiencing movies on the big
screen, do you want to trust Sean Parker about what's good for that business or do you want to trust the movie studios and the theater owners about what's good for that business.