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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2017 12:00:07 GMT -5
I doubt that anyone reading ' The Third' will see the film Moonlight, but it forms part of the 10th BFI Future Film Festival. This intoxicating, emotive film was a huge hit at 2016’s London Film Festival. The most talked-about film of 2016’s London Film Festival, Barry Jenkins’ second feature is a true gem. Growing up in 1980s Miami, Chiron (Sanders) is different from the other kids at school. Neglected by his junkie mother (Naomie Harris, as you’ve never seen her before), he turns to Juan (Ali), a local drug lord, for lessons in life and love. Innovative in style and overflowing with feeling, Moonlight is what the cinema was made for: a truly intoxicating experience. BFI Southbank - MoonlightJoin us!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2017 19:57:29 GMT -5
Is the examination of life in a trans-Atlantic slum Josh's idea of a nice evening out for English ladies?
And in general and very fundamentally, what arouses in a certain sort of person an interest in the worst not the best?
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Post by ahinton on Feb 17, 2017 0:07:34 GMT -5
Is the examination of life in a trans-Atlantic slum Josh's idea of a nice evening out for English ladies? Did anyone (other than you) mention "English ladies" as an audience towards which this might have been directed?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2017 12:24:42 GMT -5
If I may address both your questions, Sydney and ahinton: Is the examination of life in a trans-Atlantic slum Josh's idea of a nice evening out for English ladies? Did anyone (other than you) mention "English ladies" as an audience towards which this might have been directed? Yes. I can confirm that Josh Berger reckons that Moonlight is a nice Saturday afternoon out for English ladies, so I have invited some English ladies to see it. I did have second thoughts, Sydney, because it is a gay (homosexualist) film, but the ladies still seem keen to go. Writing in today's [London] ' Times', Kevin Maher claims that this masterful coming-of-age story is the best movie of the year: The Times - THE BIG FILM REVIEW - MoonlightWell, I have now mentioned English ladies to Josh, ahinton, so English ladies will see the film. Moonlight becomes you, Sydney?
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Post by ahinton on Feb 17, 2017 12:56:25 GMT -5
If I may address both your questions, Sydney and ahinton: Did anyone (other than you) mention "English ladies" as an audience towards which this might have been directed? Yes. I can confirm that Josh Berger reckons that Moonlight is a nice Saturday afternoon out for English ladies, so I have invited some English ladies to see it. Thank you for this confirmation, although it still might be thought to beg the question as to what distinguishes "English ladies" from any other English women, assuming that there might be such a distinction to be drawn in the first place. I did have second thoughts, Sydney, because it is a gay (homosexualist) film, but the ladies still seem keen to go. Why do you use this term "homosexualist"? That is surely a Grewism! Those who once viewed homosexuality as a disease are as contemptible (and wholly misguided) as those who regard it as a profession, like cellist, taxidermist or artist! Moonlight becomes you, Sydney? Dangerous Moonlight, perhaps; not sure about the real sort...
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2017 13:44:08 GMT -5
To be honest, I do not really distinguish between ladies, women and girls, but as Sydney referred to English ladies, that is how I replied.
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Post by ahinton on Feb 18, 2017 1:32:23 GMT -5
To be honest, I do not really distinguish between ladies, women and girls, but as Sydney referred to English ladies, that is how I replied. Indeed. Understood. Although why he did so is not understood.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2017 11:35:09 GMT -5
As so few people were able to join the English ladies at the weekend, here is Danny Leigh's interview with Tarell Alvin McCraney, who wrote the play on which the film is based, and Moonlight director Barry Jenkins (in the middle): BFI - Moonlight interview
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2017 11:03:04 GMT -5
' The Times' leads today with some editorial comment on Moonlit Dreams. The leading article concludes that PwC could lose the Oscar job to one of its accounting rivals. An alternative would be to hand the job to the US Secret Service, which normally guards the president. He would then have the night off, and he knows a thing or two about upstaging. The London ' Times' thunders that the biggest role at the Oscars is surely up for grabs! Perhaps ' The Third' could make the best film, Sydney?
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