The WHF Film Club

[richardw42]

I'll be watching The Cornetto Trilogy this weekend.

Tomoorrow night, probably Coppolas Dracula (never seen it)I've just finished the book, and hopefully this film is close to it.

 

[Frank Harvey]

I'll be watching The Cornetto Trilogy this weekend.

Brilliant. The World's End gets better and better, and is infinitely better than This Is The End.

 

[BenLaw]

I'll be watching The Cornetto Trilogy this weekend.

Tomoorrow night, probably Coppolas Dracula (never seen it)I've just finished the book, and hopefully this film is close to it.

Love Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. Not seen World's End, some of the reviews make me apprehensive. I'd be interested to hear what you think of Dracula, I've not seen that version.

 

[richardw42]

I'll be watching The Cornetto Trilogy this weekend.

Brilliant. The World's End gets better and better, and is infinitely better than This Is The End.

this Is The End is a TERRIBLE film.

A wasted effort from everyone involved.

 

[BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW]

Love Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. Not seen World's End

Same as me. I love Shaun Of The Dead, one of my favourite films, and Hot Fuzz is great, but I think they stretched it out a bit longer than they should have. Will have to see World's End though, not sure why I haven't.

 

[BenLaw]

Love Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. Not seen World's End

Same as me. I love Shaun Of The Dead, one of my favourite films, and Hot Fuzz is great, but I think they stretched it out a bit longer than they should have. Will have to see World's End though, not sure why I haven't.

Actually over time, and having seen each about half a dozen times, my preference is now for Hot Fuzz. It does keep going beyond where you expect it to finish but I find that other than corrupting your expectation it isn't too long as it morphs genre and keeps a high intensity up.

I watched Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring on Friday, what a beautiful film, in so many ways.

 

[richardw42]

Hot Fuzz seems to get better, every time I watch it.

 

[Frank Harvey]

There's a new app called 'Beyond' which has been designed as a companion to the Cornetto Trilogy, which syncs with the film and gives you info etc. I've not tried it yet, but I'm reading positive things about it.

 

[richardw42]

I've seen that but forgot about it. I'll give it a go.

Theres something like that for the latest Wolverine film.

 

[BenLaw]

There's a new app called 'Beyond' which has been designed as a companion to the Cornetto Trilogy, which syncs with the film and gives you info etc. I've not tried it yet, but I'm reading positive things about it.

Please tell me we're not going to get that sort of thing for new releases? As if people don't look at their phones enough in the cinema already.

 

[BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW]

Actually over time, and having seen each about half a dozen times, my preference is now for Hot Fuzz. It does keep going beyond where you expect it to finish but I find that other than corrupting your expectation it isn't too long as it morphs genre and keeps a high intensity up.

I Think Hot Fuzz wins on the laugh out loud count, particularly the older brother up the duck pond story.

I watched Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring on Friday, what a beautiful film, in so many ways.

Highly recommended film for all the club members I think, wonderful film.

 

[Frank Harvey]

I think Hot Fuzz is the more accessible film for the majority, as its humour, despite some references to SotD, is more conventional. Those that used to watch sitcom Spaced will appreciate SotD more (humour/music etc).

 

[richardw42]

Spaced is one of my favourites, that's probably why I like SotD so much.

I did watch the whole trilogy. Although the films are so instantly great, they do seem to get better.

Even thoughi I have the first two on BD, I bought the trilogy from iTunes. I do miss the fact I can't watch any extras on TWE, I will prob end up getting that on BD too.

Just as as a bit of extra info. George A Romero is a big fan of SotD, Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright had parts in Land of The Dead. Have you spotted them ?

 

[BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW]

I'm now multi-region, so I might have a look at one of the many dvds I bought later, or Delicatessen on blu-ray, which arrived yesterday.

Decisions. :?

Well, I attempted to watch Delicatessen, and fell asleep.

 

[Frank Harvey]

Just as as a bit of extra info. George A Romero is a big fan of SotD, Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright had parts in Land of The Dead. Have you spotted them ?

Oh yes. I usually keep a close track on what Pegg/Frost/Wright are doing, and knew about that before watching it. I really think these three should stick together, rather than Pegg and Frost trying to do the 'Hollywood thing'.

 

[BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW]

I've just finished watching Delicatessen, now moving on to a classic old Film Noir, Double Indemnity, if I can stay awake.

 

[BenLaw]

I've just finished watching Delicatessen, now moving on to a classic old Film Noir, Double Indemnity, if I can stay awake.

I watched that two days ago! Did you record it from film4? I enjoyed it but given that it's meant to be one of the archetypal noirs I think all it's done is confirm for me that I'm not really into noir. Sunset Boulevard is about the only film it can think of which might fall into that category which I want to (and do) own.

I don't feel like I've done Pan's Labyrinth justice in terms of our discussion but is it about time for me to propose my three films?

 

[richardw42]

Just as as a bit of extra info. George A Romero is a big fan of SotD, Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright had parts in Land of The Dead. Have you spotted them ?

Oh yes. I usually keep a close track on what Pegg/Frost/Wright are doing, and knew about that before watching it. I really think these three should stick together, rather than Pegg and Frost trying to do the 'Hollywood thing'.

i know now what you mean. Paul was quite a disappointment.

To be fair, it's not a bad film, just not up there with SotD.

 

[richardw42]

I've just finished watching Delicatessen, now moving on to a classic old Film Noir, Double Indemnity, if I can stay awake.

i was going to watch Delicatessen next week. As it'll be fresh in my mind for discussin.

 

[strapped for cash]

I've just finished watching Delicatessen, now moving on to a classic old Film Noir, Double Indemnity, if I can stay awake.

I watched that two days ago! Did you record it from film4? I enjoyed it but given that it's meant to be one of the archetypal noirs I think all it's done is confirm for me that I'm not really into noir. Sunset Boulevard is about the only film it can think of which might fall into that category which I want to (and do) own.

There are many great films that fall broadly under the "noir" umbrella. (And for what it's worth, I'm a fan of Double Indemnity.)

Have you seen The Big Sleep, The Big Heat, Kiss Me Deadly, Scarlet Street, or Touch of Evil (arguably the best Eureka BD release to date)? These are just a few archetypal examples, before we consider terms such as "neo-noir" or "tech-noir."

Then there's The Third Man... (I know you're a big enough fan to consider importing the vastly overpriced Criterion BD.)

 

[BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW]

I watched that two days ago! Did you record it from film4?

No, it came in the job lot of DVDs, along with several other Film Noirs.

I don't feel like I've done Pan's Labyrinth justice in terms of our discussion but is it about time for me to propose my three films?

I think we all liked/loved Pan's Labyrinth, and we all know pretty much what it's about, so personally speaking, I don't feel we have to discuss it further.

Go for it whenever you're ready with your 3 choices, I'm looking forward to winning my bet.

 

[strapped for cash]

Sine we were discussing expressionism above (well, sort of), it's worth noting that Bigger than Life is on 4HD late tonight, albeit with sign language.

 

[BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW]

Sine we were discussing expressionism above (well, sort of), it's worth noting that Bigger than Life is on 4HD late tonight, albeit with sign language.

Unfortunately the signing is going to put me off watching it, far too distracting.

I fell asleep watching Double Indemnity last night, will try again tonight, and I'll be listing some of the DVD job lot later on ebay too, some seem to be quite valuable, the rest, I will attempt to watch at some point.

 

[expat_mike]

I rewatched PL last night. It was more disturbing than I remembered. Can I kick things off by posing a couple of questions - what do people think the purpose of the magic realism was? Would / could the film have worked as a 'straight' Spanish Civil War film?

I have been thinking about this for a while, and come to the conclusion that the answer is no.

If just a 'straight' Spanish Civil War film, we see the Director portraying the Republicans as his preferred side, and the Fascists as the baddies.

However right at the end of the film we see Ofelia granted immortality, because she refused to spill the blood of an innocent. You can possibly interpret this as an anti war sentiment, because the Director saying that in the Spanish Civil War, both sides spilled innocent blood, so neither side was fully "good" - only Ofelia was good enough to earn immortality. To be able to offer immortality to one of the characters, the Director needed to include either religion or magic realism.

 

[Frank Harvey]

Just as as a bit of extra info. George A Romero is a big fan of SotD, Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright had parts in Land of The Dead. Have you spotted them ?

Oh yes. I usually keep a close track on what Pegg/Frost/Wright are doing, and knew about that before watching it. I really think these three should stick together, rather than Pegg and Frost trying to do the 'Hollywood thing'.

i know now what you mean. Paul was quite a disappointment.

To be fair, it's not a bad film, just not up there with SotD.

Paul is the best thing they've done without Wright - I do enjoy watching it, for some reason. They should still stick together though - "if it ain't broke"!