Film forum off topic/random chat thread

Sad Professor

The Picture Palace in Galway.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Sad Professor wrote: »

The Picture Palace in Galway.

Is that a definitive answer or are you guessing?

Sad Professor

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

Is that a definitive answer or are you guessing?

I'm assuming since its opening soon. It can't really be anything else.

johnny_ultimate

Confirmed for Galway here: http://www.businesspost.ie/oscar-nominated-element-pictures-shoots-for-growth/

Sad Professor

With the Screen and Kino gone, this will be only Ireland's third art house cinema, right? Does anyone know if the Royal Cinema in Limerick is still happening?

The Black Oil

I was passing the Screen in Dublin on Monday evening and there was some cinema equipment firm's van parked there. The lobby was full of stuff. Sad to see.

Links234

So, it's the Wachowski sisters now.

Second Toughest in_the Freshers

^stopped reading when she mentioned Silence of the Lambs,

pixelburp

Links234 wrote: »

So, it's the Wachowski sisters now.

Both transitioned; is that common? Their body of work has increasingly become nonsensical & indulgent, Jupiter Ascending being their new zeneth, but happy for them both.

gucci

I seen the trailer for Sing Street yesterday at the cinema.....it looked like everything that makes me cringe about cinema and being irish - but cant wait to see it, looks like fun!!

strelok

what are the chances of shunji iwai's latest 'A Bride for Rip Van Winkle' making it over to an irish cinema?

johnny_ultimate

If it does, it will only be festival screenings or a short IFI run, and will almost certainly be a while before and if that happens.

I'd be more optimistic about a Case of Hana and Alice commercial release - hopefully at least a decent DVD & Blu-Ray one. Much more accessible stuff, and the animation makes it an easier sell.

strelok

i'd actually forgotten all about that until I went looking at imdb today, it looks fantastic. a good BR release would be welcome alright

errlloyd

It's not a film, so it lands in off topic, but if you wait two weeks and bulk record them on the BBC I really recommend watching "The Night Manager" in either one 6 hour sitting or two 3 hour sittings.

I'm finding it very enjoyable, I watched the first four last night in one pop and my only regret is not having the next 2 ready to go. But it's not just because I want to know the answers, it's because I wanted to stay immersed in the setting.

FunLover18

Remember when there were humans in Ice Age



I wonder what they're up to now

e_e

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiu0LPeLQPE

Well this is pretty fascinating. HD on a videotape years before blu-ray existed. Who even knew about this?

e_e

e_e wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiu0LPeLQPE

Well this is pretty fascinating. HD on a videotape years before blu-ray existed. Who even knew about this?

Have read about them and seen a few examples of them but never actually managed to get my hands on one. Always been interested in seeing what the quality was like

BorneTobyWilde

Film 4 +1 1.33 am

FunLover18

Anyone else encountered this thing in Cineworld where it won't let you book seats with empty seats between yours other reserved seats? Is there a reason or a way around?

e_e

Deleted User wrote: »

Have read about them and seen a few examples of them but never actually managed to get my hands on one. Always been interested in seeing what the quality was like

This channel showed me VCDs too. Shocking quality!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7PbQTlv5ig

e_e

e_e wrote: »

This channel showed me VCDs too. Shocking quality!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7PbQTlv5ig

Had a few throughout the years, mainly of films that have never get a western release, the quality is junk but for many of them it was the only way to get the films. It was quite common for someone to come back from China with dozens if not hundreds of them stuffed in their luggage

e_e

https://twitter.com/normwilner/status/728242097334198272

Cantona's Collars

Flight of the Navigator star Deleriyes Joe Cramer has been charged following a bank robbery.

The 42-year-old was a child star who played the lead role of David in 1986 cult sci-fi classic Flight of the Navigator, where he was credited as Joey Cramer.

Sunshine Coast RCMP arrested Cramer on May 1 following the robbery in Sechelt on April 28.

He has been charged with robbery, disguise with intent to commit an indictable offence, failing to stop for a peace officer, and dangerous operation of a motor vehicle.





Just goes to show how it can all go wrong for young stars.

The Black Oil

Any time Tom Hiddleston wants to pick up a guitar is fine by me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH_VpP0cxQA

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

I find him very unlikable. Not sure what it is.... perhaps the time he was on Graham Norton and kept doing impressions of other actors.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

JB Hi-Fi are doing buy one get one free on Blu Ray's at the moment. They're an Australian store but Ireland are in the same region as Australia for Blu Rays and the € is at a decent level against the AUS$.

Problem is they seem to charge delivery on each individual item, BUT at the moment I can get, for example, MacBeth, Glassland, Mad Max Fury Road and The Man from UNCLE for €46.

Is that still good value? Leaving aside your own personal opinions of the films

Other films in the same price range include The Martian, Sicario, Black Mass, Everest, Pan, South Paw, Dope, Jurassic World, Slow West etc. etc.

So, yeah... any 4 of those for €46, goof value?

The Black Oil

So yeah, this is quite troubling.

George hoisted me up on top of a plastic picnic table in the middle of the front office and began dry-humping me. He pinned me in place as the table legs scooted back against the wall with his bodily force. The front doors opened, letting the fall chill my exposed skin.

He was laughing. They were all laughing.

I thought there were only five people in the front lobby — a few producers, the production manager, the director, maybe a driver from transportation, a production assistant or two. I remember people saying to me later, when we were alone — not in front of anyone who could fire us — "I can't believe he did that! If we worked anywhere else, he'd be fired."

"Yeah," I said. I thought the same thing.

But none of us did anything about it.

What could I do? I was pretty low on the food chain. And my bosses all saw it. All guffawed. Enjoyed the show. I wasn't a person. I was an expendable.

Source

Sad Professor

Doesn't surprise me in the slightest. Though in fairness, that was Alexander Payne's Election, which was over 17 years ago. Things have probably improved at least a little since then.

The Black Oil

The Black Oil wrote: »

So yeah, this is quite troubling.

Itdoesn't take a whole lot of guesswork to realise that the Alexander and George refer to Alexander Payne and George Parra and the film in question is Election.

The Black Oil

Sad Professor wrote: »

Doesn't surprise me in the slightest. Though in fairness, that was Alexander Payne's Election, which was over 17 years ago. Things have probably improved at least a little since then.

You'd like to think so, but I'd bet there's still some bully boy producers out there who can throw their weight around relatively unchallenged. Mo Ryan has touched on a lot of this in TVland.