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Audience reaction: The Lobster

Thursday January 14th, 2016 admin

Our audience gave the film The Lobster a score of 65.12%

Here are the comments

My type of quirky film. Well acted, unusual, dark + humour as well. Summed up in two words “Disturbingly interesting”.
Brilliantly made + performed. Very funny, absurd and troubling.
Wonderful, audacious film – great cast, great music (especially the Shostakovich), great concept. Like ‘Under the Skin’ it proves Sci-fi isn’t all about spaceships and robots.
Visually stunning, compelling storyline + great cast.
Excellent concept, well filmed and acted, good take on societies expectations on one another, offbeat.
The ultimate blind date in my opinion!
Challenging film to watch due to the bloody scenes. However the acting was wonderful and I empathised with the main character. I would recommend this film, but it is not for 15 year olds.
Bizarre and compelling. I’ll have to think about this before I can comment properly!
Excellent!
120 minutes of oblivion. Enjoyed it. Thank you…
Totally not what I was expecting. Weird, sad, funny & scary.
Interesting idea, very funny, good cast, would recommend.
A dark comedy – disturbing yet riveting. One waits to see what will happen next!
Challenging but a great start to the new season.
I enjoyed the 1st half – funny and held my interest re the hotel. Once escaped however I got bored and failed to understand the point of the film. Not that films have to have a point.
We need a new category “Strange”
Utterly thought provoking!
Agggh
Not Farells best but certainly most unusual + quite funny in both ways.
Sad / Funny
Interesting film, however, I’m not a fan of Cliff-hangers – I’d rather a film have more of a definitive ending! Boring I know!
Maybe too weird.
Acting good. Funny. Entertaining. A little gory in places for my taste.
Weird, different for sure. Liked the incongruous animals in the wood, some scenery and the music, some funny scenes but overall not keen – a Marmite film.
Not really sure if I enjoyed this film or not?
I’ve given it average not that there was anything average about it. I’ve never seen a film like it before. So it was very original but I found it horrific.
Can’t take any more of it. Sorry
Pseudo intellectual pile of cack!
Hated it!
My main thought throughout this film was, “I hope it ends soon’.
Didn’t like it at all.

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Audience Response

Audience Reaction: ‘Me and Earl and the Dying Girl’

Thursday December 3rd, 2015 admin

The audience gave the film ‘Me and Earl and the Dying Girl‘ a score of 84.09%

Here are their comments:

Loved the humour, quirkiness, pathos all combined into an amazing film.
Emotional + quirky. Brilliantly directed + acted. A film I would see again.
Quirky and intelligent.
I’ve been waiting to see this film for a while – Thank you! It was excellent.
Great performances, witty script.
Beautiful film.
Best film this season. Wonderful.
Funny at times, and also very moving. Much better than I was expecting.
Quirky + sad. A great film to end the season.
Very good. Some funny, some sad.
Liked its dire portrait of adolescence – Greg. Visually very interesting + entertaining. I believed she’d live! Best one!
Enjoyable on many levels.
Not a plastic wrapped baguette or mawkish.

Audience Response

Audience Reaction: Horror Shorts II

Wednesday October 28th, 2015 admin

The audience gave ‘Horror Shorts II‘ with Paul Shallcross a score of 92.05%

Here are their comments:

Thoroughly enjoyable. Paul’s informed history of film & specific technique highly interesting. Films themselves so imaginative especially ‘Prelude’.
Ardderchog. Brilliant!
Different, enjoyable & entertaining. More like this please.
Unusual + interesting – a very original evening.
A very nice evening. Enjoyed very much.
Totally brilliant! And a nice tribute to Greig too! Please bring back this wonderfully talented man.
Very enjoyable and informative evening. Thanks

PHOTOS

Audience Response

Audience Reaction: 52 Tuesdays

Wednesday October 21st, 2015 admin

The audience gave ‘52 Tuesdays‘ a score of 69.57%

It seemed to have a ‘Marmite’ effect, you either loved it or hated it.

Here are the comments:

Thought provoking insight into a young person coming to terms with he sexuality amidst uncertainty.
Complex and compelling.
Terrific photography. What is male, female, young, old? Still waters run deep.
Brilliant cinematography. Great casting. Very interesting.
Disturbing, full of emotion, conflicted ones and true ones. A truly beautiful film.
The nuclear family goes nuclear! Captured the complexity if a complicated situation very well.
Whatever happens – Life goes on!
Very good. Thanks.
Excellent acting/cinematography – took a while to work out relationships – 2nd half seemed to move at a faster pace – clever directing.
Not a poor film, appreciate the sentiment but had to watch. ‘Jones’ was not a caring character. Liked the daughter.
Worse film I have ever seen and I didn’t even see it all. Now that is saying something.
Lasted until day 4.

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Meetings

Selection Meeting – 17th Nov, 6:30pm

Wednesday October 21st, 2015 admin

The Nottingham ICO weekend (14th – 16th November) is coming up so we thought we would have our selection meeting straight away after that event.

We have a film on the 17th of November (We Are Many) so we have decided to have the selection meeting at 6:30pm, before the film. As we have not had a committee meeting in a long time we will cover some business as well.

Selection meetings are open to ALL film club members.

If you have ideas about films you want to see this is your chance, it helps if you bring a synopsis etc with you to the meeting so the group can make an informed decision.

Priority is given to films that have been seen by at least one person in attendance at the selection meeting, that way the meeting has first hand experience of the film.

Audience Response

Audience Response: Minima & The Phantom of the Opera 1925

Tuesday October 20th, 2015 admin

The audience gave the Minima presentation of the 1925 ‘Phantom of the Opera‘ a score of 94%

Here are their comments:

Music made the film.
Excellent music suited to the themes, however could perhaps have had a lighter approach to the more comedic scenes.
Minima’s music was excellent, though not always suited to the themes of the work. Audio quality suffered, something was rattling in the deepest bass in a very distracting fashion. For older works an accompanying info sheet would be helpful.
An interesting combination of instruments – hypnotic minimalism! What a pity that the level of volume was such that it was distorted and hit resonance with the floor, the furniture and my rib cage. A few decibels less would have enhanced the film instead of competing with it. An excellent attempt chaps; but far too loud. OK for a rave though.
A fantastic evening! Superb music + an excellent film.
Outstanding on all levels – The music complemented the film perfectly – the unmasking of the Phantom was particularly powerful as was the final sequence. Please bring Minima back!
Excellent performance by Minima. A shame that the music was too loud and that it caused a horrible and distracting rattle within the theatre.
Music was great!
Really enjoyed doing something different for the night!
Very good performance. Not what I expected.
What a brilliant (revived) idea! More please.
First time I’ve seen this cinema classic – greatly enhanced by the live music.
Amazing stamina of musicians. Brilliant score.

News

Add Film Club Films to Your Calendar

Saturday October 10th, 2015 admin

If you use a calendar on your tablet, phone or desktop you can now keep it up to date automatically by adding our events calendar to your calendar… you can even add it to your Google Calendar!

All you need to do is add this address to your calendar:

http://www.pontardawefilm.com/feed/eo-events/

Sometimes simply clicking on this link from the web browser on your phone or tablet will be all you need to do!

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Audience Response

Audience Reaction: Force Majeure

Friday October 9th, 2015 admin

The audience gave tonight’s film ‘Force Majeure‘ a score of 50.78%.

Here are their comments:

Bit slow, but v. Bergmanesque & sinister. Show more Swedish films!
Well worth showing. Poor Thomas! Why the bus ending. I won’t be going on a skiing holiday.
Humorous, poignant, off-beam, Nordic!
My perception of the film was coloured by the fact I cannot see any attraction to skiing or staying in hotels or being with the people in the film. Either the married people or the single people or the adulterous couple. I just couldn’t relate to any of it at all.
Different: Slow. Colourless. Humour-good. Thought provoking.
A bit slow, but worth seeing.
People in a mid-life crisis!
A few fine moments with humour… Interesting thoughts on relationships but overall it didn’t really work for me!
An odd film but think I enjoyed.
6/10
Overlong – chilling in places and some bold statements about family + relationships – but uneven.
Boring and tedious. The underlying plot was sound but the screenplay didn’t do it justice.

Audience Response

Audience Reaction: A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence

Tuesday September 15th, 2015 admin

The audience gave the film ‘A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence‘ a score of 24%.

Here are the comments:

Poor choice made film night not a good choice.
Started promisingly with very black humour, but after a while the joke wore off and it just became frustrating. Some excellent composition and some stand out moments à la Bunuel, Beckett and even The League of Gentlemen. But overlong and perhaps too alienating.
I think I can say that was the strangest film I have ever seen at PFC. I will remember it though. Lottas sko i Göteborg (1943) – you had to be there…
A surreal slant on humanity.
Loved it!
Not quite sure what I’ve just watched?
How on earth did this film win the Golden Lion?
Not much on the TV.
???
What was that all about then eh?
Bizzare! + Beige very Swedish.
Lost 2 hrs of my life.
A series of surreal pastiches portraying humanity in a mostly sad and sorry state with whiffs of Python-style humour. You probably won’t come out feeling happy!