Tag: midweekfilmclub
-
#midweekfilmclub – On The Road – It’s a bit like the A470…
Jack Kerouac‘s On The Road is a staple of the Beat Generation; those drug addled, jazz fuelled writers and poets that liberalised publishing in America as it was. This sprawling, autobiographical book, manifestly takes in endless locations and characters, many a passing blur, as a chameleonic group of hedonistics do their utmost to tear a […]
-
Film: Argo – Dir. Ben Affleck #midweekfilmclub
To be honest, I wasn’t expecting much; let’s be honest, Affleck’s had a patchy career at best, so a sortie into directing had me fearing the worst. But, and here’s the key, the story looked really interesting. That Affleck was also trying to switch from leaden actor to lead actor didn’t help my fears either. I couldn’t have been more wrong.
-
Film: Berberian Sound Studio, Dir. Peter Strickland #midweekfilmclub 23
Much hyped and vaunted, the latest Brit-flick to have critics raving is Strickland’s sonic salutation; a disturbing glimpse into the pre-digital era of film making and specifically into special effects.
-
Film: Take This Waltz, Dir. Sarah Polley #midweekfilmclub 21
Hmmm. After taking the summer off from MWFC, I thought it was high time to get the ball rolling again. Kinda wishing I’d chosen a different week. A while back I heard that In Bruges was, in essence, paid for by Eurostar, in return for product placement, before it became allowed per se. I loved […]
-
MWFC (midweekfilmclub.co.uk)
As a big fan of going to the pictures, Steve Dimmick wanted to find a film-club locally that offered a good mix of blockbuster and art-house and foreign films. There wasn’t one, so he decided to start his own and as Wednesday’s was his only free night, midweekfilmclub.co.uk was born.
-
Film: Shame, Dir. Steve McQueen – #midweekfilmclub 11
This is the perfect first-date movie. Well, not really… but I’d pay good money to see the faces on a pair of relative strangers, both looking for love, on leaving the cinema after watching this. The film contains a series of impressively long shots; from a beautiful cityscape sequence showing sex addicted Brandon (Michael Fassbender) pounding […]
-
Film: Take Shelter, Dir. Jeff Nichols #midweekfilmclub 5
This was, for want of better words, an enjoyable take on depression. Unlike the previous #midweekfilmclub pick The Debt, this film has just the two lead actors, who work well together and you really attach to them. Which you need to; the film’s two hours long and for me it feels it could have done with being […]
-
Film: The Debt, Dir. John Madden #midweekfilmclub 4
OK, so what to say here… This was just a bit of a damp squib sadly. It’s overly cast, in that there are 8 characters sharing the leads, vying for your attention, in a dual timeline thriller. These are made up of 3 young Mossad agents, their later life counterparts and the young and old […]
-
Film: Drive, Dir. Nicolas Winding Refn – #midweekfilmclub 3
With the world and it’s aunt seemingly falling over themselves to fawn over Ryan Gosling, I was really intrigued by what this film would offer. His performance is, I’d say, minimalist at best and vacuous at worst. I know he’s meant to be the monosyllabic hero in this, but the sparsity and brevity of this […]
-
Film: Melancholia, Dir. Lars von Trier – #midweekfilmclub 2
Dramatic opening, with ridiculously loud classical music. Kirsten Dunst was good as the lead, in this tale of two sisters dealing with impending doom in very different ways. Lots of filler though and not short of weird surrealism either. All in all a bit odd. 6/10 – First Lars von Trier film I’d watched and […]
stevedimmick.co.uk 