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Post by Big Daddy on Jun 16, 2010 22:06:04 GMT
A great film tonight. 'The Hurt Locker'. I'm not usually into war films and the idea of one involving Americans in Iraq almost put me off - but it was a very intense experience! There were (I think) about 17 of us in the audience, despite it being a warm sunny evening and the World Cup being on and all were I believe totally attentive and so silent you could have heard a bomb explode! Not surprised that it won awards!
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Post by Big Daddy on Jun 29, 2010 19:50:52 GMT
Next film on Wednesday 16th July is 'Amelia"
This is the story of pioneer female pilot and aviator who disappeared at the very end of her historic attempt to fly right around the world.
She vanished without trace this very week in 1937, so we are showing it as a tribute to her in a way!
Someone thinks that they have located the site where her aircraft may have crashed - and an expedition was due to be searching he site for any evidence at the end of June this year!
It should be a fascinating film!
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Post by Big Daddy on Sept 16, 2010 17:43:25 GMT
The 'new' seats are great and the auditorium looks super now with its golden ironwork and neat unpatched red painted walls.
The was a very good audience for the first use of the new seats - the film "An Education". A good film - and I'm glad that my own daughter's education was not gained that way! I presume that it was the film, and not just the chance to admire the plush green seats and clean red walls that brought so many in!
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Post by Big Daddy on Sept 24, 2010 19:10:51 GMT
I enjoyed 'Nine', though it was a rather odd film in some ways.
I preferred the old style 'musicals' where you got to see the whole of a set piece musical number and the plot expositions took place in between them, now it seems (as in 'Phantom', 'Moulin Rouge' etc) the big 'numbers' all rather take place rather as a background to the plot and are never seen in full without super fast cutting from one shot to another all the time so you never get to appreciate the set, costumes or dancing to the full. Bring back Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and Busby Berkeley I say!
Glad to see that there was a good audience, and that the Norbury sound system coped reasonably well with the full dynamics of the orchestra etc. (has it been seen to and tweaked up during the closed season In August?)
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Post by Big Daddy on Oct 14, 2010 22:32:36 GMT
'The Lovely Bones' was a very weird film! Very surrealistic as regards the CGI settings for some of the scenes - but it worked very well and made an excellent and thought-provoking evening at the cinema.
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Post by Big Daddy on Nov 12, 2010 22:17:32 GMT
"Crazy Heart' was a film of unintelligble american mumbling. If I could have heard/understood the dialogue I might have enjoyed it more. Obviously our regulars weren't keen as we had the smallest audience of the season (no, I'm not going to say how many/few of us there were!)
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Post by Big Daddy on Nov 12, 2010 22:20:42 GMT
"The Last Station' what a contrast after 'Crazy Heart'! Clear audible dialogue.......and a large audience!
Cinema is so unpredictable! Will 'The Time Travellers Wife' bring them flocking in, or will we all have several rows of seats each to choose from again? I shall be there anyway!
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Post by Big Daddy on Nov 17, 2010 18:21:51 GMT
Well, the next few films have been chosen... quite a job as so many that we would like to have shown we can't because of non-availability of the licence for them from the distributors. We think that we've come up with a good package to see us through to February though! Watch out for the next 'forthcoming' brochure (or keep an eye in this website)!
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Post by Big Daddy on Dec 13, 2010 22:31:48 GMT
I'll be there! I agree about the undecipherable dialogue! Thick American accents, hip-hop slang chat andf all round mumbling seems to be the in thing - oh for the days of Noel Coward, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud etc and for 'perfect diction' dear boy!
Wonder what "Remember me' will be like in this respect!
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Post by Big Daddy on Jan 6, 2011 18:08:05 GMT
Oh dear! My old brain ain't what it used to be! In my last post I meant, of course, 'A Single Man'. I could hear rather more of that and enjoyed it, despite it not being a 'laugh a minute' plot!
Now the panto interrupts the flow of cinema nights...
Wonder if the old brain will remind me to turn up on the Wednesday after Aladdin has returned to old Peking (Wednesday 26th Jan in the Gregorian Calendar) to see 'State of Play'. It is based on the TV mini-series 'Find the Truth' I am told, but as I've never heard of that I don't know what to expect! Still it's got a good strong cast.
Lets just hope they all speak up!
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Post by Big Daddy on Jan 28, 2011 19:00:39 GMT
Hope it wasn't your state of health that kept you away from film and minty-cones this week Ange! 'State of Play' had a complex, but I thought it was very good. The two hours went very quickly! I was good to see quite number in, considering the long break for panto - made up for by us having two consecutive weeks of cinema (but confusing!)
By the way, I see that we now have trailers for forthcoming films here on the Norb website! Excellent!
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Post by Big Daddy on Feb 14, 2011 16:14:47 GMT
'The Ghost' was quite interesting, but the story was very far-fetched. Can you imagine there ever being a real grinning prime-minister that took his country into an illegal war and then made loads of cash by doing after-dinner speeches and writing an autobiography? Of course, if ther ever was such a person then he would deserve to be investigated for war-crimes and probably end up being 'got rid of' like the one in the film!
This week's 'Leap Year' romantic comedy sounds as it it will be less heavy going!
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Post by Big Daddy on Feb 17, 2011 15:27:22 GMT
'Leap Year' was a very pleasant and amusing 'romantic comedy'which I much enjoyed.
No guns, no strong language, no nudity, no graphic sex......... It was much appreciated by our regulars (and some new faces too). I even heard one say that it was the best film that we'd had on for ages and it had made her feel really happy!
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Post by Big Daddy on Mar 17, 2011 22:16:44 GMT
This week's film was 'Agora'. Uninspiring title for a very good and thought provoking film about Hypatia of Alexandria. She was a leading teacher, philosopher, atheist, feminist, astronomer, mathematician and noted beauty! I looked her up on the internet afterwards and found that the film was almost all true - with the exception of the 'love interest' (Thank you Hollywood!) and the fact that she met a far grizzlier death at the hands of the 'merciful and loving' Christians than was shown on screen. In the film her admirer carried out a mercy killing by strangling her before the followers of Jesus got at her. In reality he did not exist. They caught her, dragged her to their cathedral and hacked her to pieces using sharpened oyster shells! Nice. I prefer the film!
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Post by Forum Administrator on Apr 4, 2011 20:56:36 GMT
And only £1.50!
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