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December 15, 2011

It’s a Wonderful Life

Filed under: Kirkgate Arts Centre — Martin Sullivan @ 4:07 pm

I help with the Cockermouth Film Club. I don’t usually comment about this here, but I was so moved this week.

A proper excuse for a movie poster. Merry Christmas George

We showed “It’s a Wonderful Life“. Inside, and after I’d cashed-up, I enjoyed the film, in-spite of all its insipid cheesiness. George Baily is shown what it would be like without him. His town turns into Potterville, a town not unlike his own, but with considerably more and better nightlife and a curiously hot librarian. But everything comes good in the end and lots of friends new and old show up unexpectedly. A bit like our audience, which was about ten times bigger than we normally have. At the end the film was applauded; something that I’d never seen before. I felt moved to give a little thank-you speech. And everybody was happy.

Elsewhere, I’m attempting to get the original web-address for the Film Club back and up on the Internet. I’ve a small ‘brochure’ site ready to roll. I just need the Domain to point to one of the servers here, in Stag House. It’s proving harder than expected.

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As he's a slide-rule ink-pen using freak in a modern world, you'll be interested to know that he's volunteered as a projectionist at the local independent cinema. These places depend upon heavily on the volunteer. And having made several clumsy helper contributions and observed how it's all done, he's now officially on rota. The occasional post about what he's done makes its way to this side-bar.
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  April 30, 2013 | 11:17 am
  The Monday Movie at the Kirkgate was made and shown. It’s I, Anna, a sort of throw-back film-noir with a baffled cop and a femme fetale. This needed a fair amount of belief suspension and some plot-hole ignoring, for it was set in a contemporary London. The main idea was that the primary suspect was [...]
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  April 1, 2013 | 11:21 am
  Amour a French film that got a nod at the Oscars was made up and projected. The film was quite depressing and overly long. It basically chronicled the end-of-life trip of an elderly but wealthy woman and her husband’s trials in helping her. Things were never going to end cleverly or happily and the Movie [...]
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  March 19, 2013 | 11:26 am
  I was in the Booth again, this time for a strange little Rom-Com, with strange mental health overtones, The Silver Linings Playbook. Last week I’d shown The Sapphires, having ‘swapped’ with another projectionist. But I thought I didn’t have anymore on the current roster, then I remember this. The mental health issues, suffered by the [...]
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  March 12, 2013 | 11:31 am
  I was in the booth for Sapphires which was posted as being a “feel good” movie, but also based on a “True Story”. So, I expected something in that ilk. What we got was indeed, a musical with some jeopardy and 1960′s racial politics lobbed on top. Some of minor plot-lines were a little outlandish [...]
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  February 12, 2013 | 11:34 am
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