Comments on: Films you should watch, if they get here

By: Holland

Holland — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:21:55 +0000

I like the intermission bit. It gives you the opportunity to go to the loo, or buy those nachos you had no time to buy beforehand. And they do do it elsewhere. At least here in Holland in all the arthouse cinemas.

By: Mario Debono

Mario Debono — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:48:13 +0000

Great selection, Daphne. And I agree with you, there is no comparison to the cinema. My family had two in Zurrieq, and one in St Paul’s Bay. I grew up watching films…. one is still a cinema, complete with old projectors and seating. It’s mothballed in fact. It used to seat 700 people. One day, I intend to restore it to its former 1960s glory and run The Ten Commandments and Ben Hur in original Cinemascope, and a slew of Bogey movies, if I can still find the reel versions.

By: Pat

Pat — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 20:37:29 +0000

Paul: Ouch, big blunder of me there. My bad and thanks for correcting me. Still didn’t care too much for the movie though.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:22:26 +0000

P.Shaw – 4 months is a great movie. Watch it.

Pat – erm Emma Thompson was not in Burn after Reading.

[Daphne – That’s right. The main roles were played by Frances McDormand and Tilda Swinton.]

By: H.P. Baxxter

H.P. Baxxter — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:14:17 +0000

Good good, now go and watch Tropic Thunder, if it’s still on.

By: John Meilak

John Meilak — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:11:02 +0000

“Daphne – There’s no comparison. I never watch films on television. And one does need to leave home occasionally. It’s not a cave”

Not if you buy a projector and some good surround system.

[Daphne – And build an extension to the house….]

By: Maria

Maria — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:24:28 +0000

I’ve just seen the Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. Whilst it was good, and it made me cry, I too was outraged that the intermission is still there. And I mean, why for a two-hour film, does one need food and drink? Toilet before so that you are comfortable, but that’s all there is to it.

Happy Christmas, everybody.

By: John Meilak

John Meilak — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 12:05:43 +0000

Who needs to go to the cinema, when you can watch films from the comfort of your own home?

[Daphne – There’s no comparison. I never watch films on television. And one does need to leave home occasionally. It’s not a cave.]

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:49:58 +0000

I’m so glad Doubt has been made into a film. I wasn’t able to watch it when it was staged at St James last year – only a year after it had won the Pulitzer – but it had met with a very good reception.

It would be hard to get used to films with no intermission. I rather enjoy the opportunity of stocking up on Party Time (a guilty and unhealthy pleasure) and having a brief socialising session. It’s part of the fun.

By: Mario P

Mario P — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:06:28 +0000

As a one film a week addict, I have long given up on local cinemas unless it is a film which deserves the widest possible screen in which case I see the film at the end of the run to have the least possible number of people around. I don’t have an opinion on intermissions – some people like them and some don’t. To me it’s the cost of seeing the film in public. It’s amazing the number of excellent films out there which do not make it to the local cinema. I saw ‘Outsourced’ last week – it has no hope of appearing here because there are no big names but it has a few good points to make about this ‘fashion’. 2008 favourite for me was ‘No Country for Old Men’ although I had to read the book eventually to understand it fully…