I know you are all dying to see how my poster looks framed and hanging on my wall. Ha! Well here it is anyway. I bought the frame yesterday, and hung it up today - with no fancy lighting system, unfortunately. I’ve added it to my growing Cumberbatch Exhibit in our spare room/office.
(Those books on the messy bookshelves are my sister’s. Mine are on the other side of the room. And yes, that is masking tape holding together the frame for TIG poster. It keeps falling apart and I keep taping it back together. It seems to be holding on this time, so I’m leaving it with the ugly tape showing.)
It looks fabulous! And you have a Grinch! 😍 Which is back at #1 in the UK on their Netflix, knocking out some heavy contenders. Don’t you just love that’s there’s a Cumberbatch for every mood & every occasion?
This is the theatre where I saw Louis Wain and TPOTD. It’s also the theatre where I got (bought) the TPOTD poster. I’m wondering if I gave them a money-making idea, because a while ago they announced that they would be having a movie poster auction. And then everything shut down again so they haven’t done it yet.
In case you were interested, our local paper tweeted a photo of the “kid” (he looks 12 in person) who owns the theatre where I watched TPOTD, and who sold me the poster. Movie theatres are re-opening today (and this theatre is showing House of Gucci. Ugh! )
The theatre where I saw TPOTD has been showing all the Oscar-nominated movies again this past week, and today they’re bringing back Drive My Car, Belfast and TPOTD. I wonder if people will go see a movie that’s already playing on Netflix?
Mine is showing all the Oscar shorts and also the Godfather (One night only!)
I was thinking no, I wouldn’t go, but they’ve also added a matinee showing on the 23rd that would work better for me. That one might not be 35mm, though.
Another artsy theatre, in my neighbourhood, where they never showed it before, actually had it for one night only - during one of our huge snowstorms.
Both those theatres are showing a lot of the Oscar nominated stuff, and also The Godfather because apparently it’s having an anniversary.
I caved in and went to see it again this afternoon. It was supposed to be this rare 35mm screening, but it looked the same as always to me! There were maybe 30-40 people in the audience.
What was different this time was the sound. The music was painfully loud, while the dialogue was way too quiet. It wasn’t a huge issue, though, because I know the dialogue by heart, of course.
It’s interesting, though, that after all the times I’ve watched it (this was my 17th time!), I finally heard the banjo when Rose was practicing the piano. Every other time - including at TIFF - I could never hear it until Rose stopped playing. But this time I could hear both clearly, and the banjo sound even seemed to come from the left side of the theatre - where Phil was in the scene. When the camera showed Phil’s hands playing it, the sound moved to the middle. I guess that’s that surround sound that we come to expect at multiplexes, but not necessarily an independent artsy theatre.
I was reading one of those tweets today that said the ending was ok, but nothing much happened in the middle of the movie. How could they say that? There’s so much that happens all the way through!