Does anyone else remember the clip shows they used to have? This might have been back in the very late seventies, but more likely the early eighties? People would write in requests for bits of programs that they'd seen, and would like to see again -- this would be before video recorders were widely available, so that this was pretty much the only ( Read more... )

It was around Death of a President that C pointed out that some tickets seemed to be missing -- in fact, all the tickets bar the first one on Saturday, all the tickets on Sunday, all the tickets for the evenings of the coming weeks, and all the tickets on Saturday. (The Sunday tickets were there.) I know that my tickets were bundled up in three or ( Read more... )

And now, Thursday!

My first film was All In This Tea at Te Papa. I'll admit to not knowing too much about my favourite tipple, and I was very interested in the history, as well as the tribulations of a present-day American (David Lee Hoffman) trying to import organically-grown, traditionally harvested and prepared tea from China. For example, I ( Read more... )

On to Wednesday!

I Served the King of England was my first movie, and in many ways it was interesting to see it so close to Black Book. It was a Czech movie, and done in a comic, almost slapstick style -- the waiters pirouetting around like dancers, the faux-silent film section detailing the main character's humble origins as a railway hotdog ( Read more... )

Quick note -- I really liked Paprika! If you like anime, you may as well ( Read more... )

Jeeni & Lee had already seen Conversations With My Gardener and liked it, and I recognised a number of the actors, so I was fairly confident that I'd enjoy it. And I did -- it's not a big film, but it was a good one ( Read more... )

The second day seemed to start with a decidedly political bent. My first movie (which I saw with C) was Run, Granny, Run. It followed the senatorial campaign of a 94 year-old grandmother who'd been unexpectedly thrust into the Democratic candidacy by the death of the previous candidate -- since they were running against a two-term incumbent, it' ( Read more... )

One of the unexpected advantages of booking a large swag of movies is that you often only remember the vaguest details of the particular film you're going to see. This made my first movie, Red Road, even more exciting than it would otherwise have been -- apart from the fact that it had security cameras in it, I couldn't remember anything about it ( Read more... )

In case people are curious about my movie schedule, here's what I'm seeing, when. You'll notice a couple of tense five-minute runs between the Embassy and the Paramount (or vice-versa) and some fairly tight changeovers elsewhere; but I'm hopeful that I'll handle it okay.

20 July, Fridayo Pa 11:00am - 12:55pm Red Road (p71 ( Read more... )

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