The best thing to do with any film is to judge it for yourself-----Among the many films that I have seen they include "Federico Fellini's 8½" In my opinion it is a load of old pretentious nonsense but the critics and fellow cinefiles rave about it!....It is all about opinions.
Snap .But according to rhe excellent A Northern Wind it was first released on a double bill with Nicholas Roeg's wonderful Don't Look Now: Remember seeing the latter seperately,probably up in town .Fortuatnely I hasd a good mate in Brum who was a fellow film buff and he alerted me to the fact that The Wicker Man was showing at a local fleapit.
What was the name of "the fleapit"?----I not only love films but the cinemas themselves also interest me.
That was really too long ago for me to remember.
BTW I love Fellini's Eight and a half.Probably the first time i saw that was at Aston University's film club (they used to have a joint union with Brum Poly (Since I was on the commitee I used to "help" in their selection of films to book.Sundays for the more intellectual of us and Wed afternnoons (when I used to play football) for the more popular fiilms.Semed a good way to do things. both at the time and since.
Yeah I quite liked it but would agree that it's a strange film.It was very much a film to see back in the 60's/early 70's along with Hiroshima mon amour,which is rather more accessible ;IMO.Think LY in M might well have been one of the Sunday films I booked for Aston film club .Both Alan Resnais films of course.
Come on mate, was it a waste of time, any good, what was it about, where did you see it?
it was excellent, saw it in a preview at the Verdi Park cinema:Perhaps.uprisingly it's about a pilgramage (though not a religous one).
.While primarily an action film thought the historical stuff was pretty accurate ,despite some reviews which claimed the opposite.
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (2023) - starring Jim Broadbent and Penelope Wilton
Reads like one to wait and watch on tele then.
Is it worth seeing? It gets a release in Barna at the end of this weekThis week's other new film is Helen Mirren's Golda ,which I''m also interested in.
We are planning to watch it in sections over the holidays, thanks for the reminder.
That's exactly what I did, watched half on Sunday then the other half last night
