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Trap 2024
Watched on long-haul flight from Helsinki to Seoul.
Josh Hartnett was very good at being very bad at acting (as in his character’s acting, not his actual acting acting, right?) Much of this was very silly, but it was a perfect one and done movie before lights out on the plane (Last time I flew East I made the great error or not sleeping & just watching films. Cool at the time but killer for jet lag…)
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Joker: Folie à Deux 2024
Watched on flight from Helsinki to Heathrow, after god knows how many hours of travelling & how much sleep…
Thoughts 1h27m in: God this is boring. At least Steve Coogan was funny, if entirely unintentionally (unavoidably Partridge, even doing an accent. Hope someone dubs his scene doing a good AP impression). Ugh, another 48 minutes to go…
Thoughts at the end: Well, that was a long 48 minutes… A couple of musical numbers aside, nothing here really grabbed me in any meaningful way and I offer a great big shrug to this whole endeavour.
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Blue Collar 1978
The scratchiest, most red-saturated print in town! Unexpectedly packed-out screening on a Thursday afternoon. I guess it’s half term, but still…
This was pretty great & still depressingly relevant. All the leads fantastic but Richard Pryor especially. Sudden hankering to rewatch Superman III.
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The Brutalist 2024
Given the hoo-ha about 70mm prints and epicness, I really thought this would have had a much wider screen ratio! It also cost more to see it on film than the 4K screenings, which I’m not sure is entirely justified, Mr BFI.
The score is great. Just last week I saw pre-Oscar nominated Daniel Blumberg at Café Oto attending a night of experimental artists from Beijing. Crazy to me that the Oto piano features in this and might help win…
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