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SCREENING: Funeral Parade Queer Film Society
DATE: June 2nd
CINEMA: The Prince Charles Cinema
LOCATION: West End
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Max the Movie Guy added 1 item to My trips to the cinema 2024 list
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FORMAT: 35mm
CONDITION: ★★★
NOTES: Arrived as late as to miss a logo or two, which is weird considering how I usually remember exactly what the start time of every film I see is. A pretty faded print but not too dusty. It does take a couple of shots of damage though, and the worst hit changeover occurs during the ‘GRATUITOUS SEX SCENE’.
DATE: May 31st 2024
CINEMA: The Prince Charles Cinema
LOCATION: West End
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The climactic battle shows Scar rising from the grave (somehow) and ready to fight Kovu, all while an alien invasion is occurring. Kovu and Simba take to a random parking lot to take Scar down once and for all, and the aliens blast them with superlion strength, propping them up on two legs and granting them large, muscular yet rounded forms, much like how the animals transform in King-Size Canary. It’s a badass fight scene while it lasts, but in a matter of seconds Kovu is struck and killed by the same aliens that offered him his powers. Not only does the buff energy fly out of his body and into the UFO but that energy happened to replace his innards as well, leaving him as a boneless husk, and his dying face is much doofier and more cartoonish than this scene calls for. When the energy has completely dissipated, his eyes, nose and lower lip are vaporised by the aliens and through a POV shot from the bottom of the river we see the lion-skin rug that was once Kovu float down into the water, but a passing object passes through and transitions Kovu’s muzzle-only face back to his dying cartoon face as he lands. Simba, still bipedal and cartoonishly muscular, cries over Kovu’s lifeless, flat, empty, goofy-looking corpse. I didn’t get to see if Scar won or not.
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FORMAT: 35mm
CONDITION: ★★½
NOTES: Could have been a dye transfer print given the amount of blues that bleed through the whites. Surprisingly few frames lost for such a visibly and audibly battered print.
DATE: May 28th 2024
CINEMA: The Prince Charles Cinema
LOCATION: West End
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FORMAT: 35mm
CONDITION: ★★★
NOTES: Original release print, mostly presented half in perfect focus and not without several cuts or damage – most of all during Muffley’s first call with Kissov – but still in impressive quality. Sadly but ironically, the print cut out as Major Kong was trying to fix the bomb doors and the remainder of print flew off and spilled onto the floor, halting the performance with eight minutes left. When the print was fixed and screened again half a year later, the final reel was in healthy running condition, although you could tell from which frames were out of focus where something may have gone wrong.
DATE: May 27th 2024 | November 28th 2024
CINEMA: The Prince Charles Cinema
LOCATION: West End
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SCREENING: 35mm
DATE: May 27th | November 28th
CINEMA: The Prince Charles Cinema
LOCATION: West End
WITH: An original release print that on the first run I saw spilled onto the floor with eight minutes to spare, and at a very inconvenient (but also very ironic) place to crash. Especially annoying considering the other screenings weren’t timed to my liking. Luckily, they did a great job at getting it fixed to run again six months later, and thus the print ran all the way to the shocking end.
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Caught an English dub of this film in our holiday home on a trip to France, and though Carmen and Juliette wind up in the same starting point, the Kingdom of the Winds is more expansive than it was presented in the actual film. The two kids run into more action-packed scenarios than they bargained for, and there is a witch that resembles the late Selma but middle-aged and chubby, living in a whole underground city of weird and wonderful creatures.
Worth noting that the house was full of trophies and various artifacts from around the world, with a vintage TV in the living room and a flat-screen downstairs, and it was peaceful until a dozen rich tourists came in as guests, took pictures of everything and had an orgy in the basement.
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