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List the films you've seen at the cinema: 2019

Wilf said:
Saw it on Sunday. Loved it, in part because I like long, slow building films. Beautifully shot, lots of weirdness, mixture of horror and occasional comedy. And with a tiny, tiny spoiler that you'll have already twigged if you've seen the trailer...

... an excellent revisiting of the Wicker Man.

I'm not entirely sure the message(s) in the film were that clear or, more likely, that I interpreted it right. But it certainly works at the level of sit down, watch it, go with it.
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Saw it last night and loved it! I don't know why they were doing any of the things they were doing but the serene oddness of it all was very compelling.

Florence - of course - was marvellous.
 
Mrs Miggins said:
Saw it last night and loved it! I don't know why they were doing any of the things they were doing but the serene oddness of it all was very compelling.

Florence - of course - was marvellous.
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I thought the John Nettles cameo was a nice touch
 
Spider-man far from home.

A fun summer superhero film. Tom Holland is a great Peter Parker.

I wish they would stop destroying London.
 
Never Look Away. From the writer/director of The Lives of Others, follows an artist from witnessing a terrible event as a child in Germany just pre-WW2 across a thirty-year period. As well as art, there's a love story and things to say about what happened to those who did truly terrible things during the war and escaped justice. It's long at a bit over three hours but it really didn't feel it. I found it mesmerising.
 
Mrs Miggins said:
Saw it last night and loved it! I don't know why they were doing any of the things they were doing but the serene oddness of it all was very compelling.

Florence - of course - was marvellous.
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Saw this last night, bit long I thought, I did like it though. Wince inducing at times and jarring in a good way, soundtrack. As well as Wicker Man obviously, it reminded me a bit of A Cure for Wellness.
 
Saw 'midsommar' last week. Superb. Nice that they didn't downgrade any of the gore etc, too many 15 certificate 'horrors' (though it seems to defy genre). Look forward to more of the directors works (hereditary was excellent too) Go see.
 
"The Dead Don't Die"
It's funny and I enjoyed watching it but I kept having this nagging feeling of "I hope this just doesn't go on and on forever" because it could have done.

Some of the storylines don't go anywhere which is odd. Maybe I just haven't seen a Jim Jarmusch film for a while.

Enjoyable though and a stellar cast who are all great to watch.
 
xenon said:
Saw this last night, bit long I thought, I did like it though. Wince inducing at times and jarring in a good way, soundtrack. As well as Wicker Man obviously, it reminded me a bit of A Cure for Wellness.
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Not many surprises though, even idmf you haven't seen the Wicker Man.

It is however more A"Through the Looking Glass", than "Alice in Wonerland". Lots of stuff with mirrors and she ends up as a **** in the ***; Igemar and Pelle were Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

Edited out respect to those who haven't read Alice through the "Looking Glass", whose ending, as Orang Utan pointed out I had spoilt. As to Midsommar it's unspoilably predictable. Not only can you guess the general fate of all the participants, all the plot details are on given in detail in the pictures wallsand paintings on the first hour of the movie
 
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SpookyFrank said:
When I saw the glowing guardian review I did wonder if they only liked it because it stars the person with the most guardian-sounding name in history.
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Not as Guardiany as her sister Gladys
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It's such a pity that Jimmy Perry and David Croft never made a horror movie.
 
Varda by Agnes. In her last film, Agnes Varda talks about her life and work.

A lovely film about a great (and underrated) director who was still open to and exploring new ideas in her 80s. An interesting and interested woman, could've listened to her talk for hours.
 
Mrs Miggins said:
"The Dead Don't Die"
It's funny and I enjoyed watching it but I kept having this nagging feeling of "I hope this just doesn't go on and on forever" because it could have done.

Some of the storylines don't go anywhere which is odd. Maybe I just haven't seen a Jim Jarmusch film for a while.

Enjoyable though and a stellar cast who are all great to watch.
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Felt a bit meh about it tbh and like it should've been better than it was. I mean, enjoyable enough, just seriously ran out of steam. And a lot of the cast felt wasted.

(I did see myself in the Iggy Pop (and woman he was with) characters though. ;))
 
Vita & Virginia. It was, well, ok. Fairly interesting for the Virginia Woolf stuff and reasonably interesting for the portrait of Vita Sackville-West. Didn't set my world on fire. And was Virginia Woolf really so bloody wet?
 
8115 said:
Vita & Virginia. It was, well, ok. Fairly interesting for the Virginia Woolf stuff and reasonably interesting for the portrait of Vita Sackville-West. Didn't set my world on fire. And was Virginia Woolf really so bloody wet?
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She definitely was at the end of her life
 
Current war. Misses out Swan & Armstrong side of things (understandable for narrative) but good film, well done. And one that adds to the public narrative of how we got where we are
 
Animals. Around 6.5 out of ten maybe? A decent watch. Not sure why it was set in Dublin. Lots and lots of drugs. Interesting storyline about what happens to a close friendship when one party gets engaged.
 
Yes, I wondered how they would end it, guess it was just showing a slice of her life and you could make your own mind up about it :D

I thought it was good too, very good acting by her with few words - not easy to do.
 
RubyToogood said:
Animals. Around 6.5 out of ten maybe? A decent watch. Not sure why it was set in Dublin. Lots and lots of drugs. Interesting storyline about what happens to a close friendship when one party gets engaged.
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I read the book and thought it was brilliant - both poignant and extremely funny. May go and see it depending on further reviews/if we don't go and see the Leonard Cohan film instead.

ETA - I was also surprised it was set in Dublin - Manchester is a really strong presence in the book IYSWIM.
 
oryx said:
I read the book and thought it was brilliant - both poignant and extremely funny. May go and see it depending on further reviews/if we don't go and see the Leonard Cohan film instead.

ETA - I was also surprised it was set in Dublin - Manchester is a really strong presence in the book IYSWIM.
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Yeah, I read the Wikipedia entry about the book and thought it sounded more coherent tbh, although the writer of the book also wrote the screenplay. It would have made more sense in Manchester I think.
 
RubyToogood said:
Yeah, I read the Wikipedia entry about the book and thought it sounded more coherent tbh, although the writer of the book also wrote the screenplay. It would have made more sense in Manchester I think.
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Highly recommend the book - I'd lend you it if only I had a hard copy instead of a Kindle version! It's hilarious and a really good insight into how toxic (I hate that word but can't think of a better one in this context!) friendships work.
 
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