Sightseers

[MariaLionza]

http://www.facebook.com/SlackersClub

22nd Nov Sightseers SLACKERS Club

[Cortone]

Saw this last night at the Leeds International Film Festival, in a packed cinema. (Complete sell out.)

It was very well received - loads of loud laughter throughout. Q&A with Steve Oram afterwards - although cannot say the questions were profound - more about knitted bikini patterns, visits to the pencil museum, :-)

Hopefully the slackers screening will not be the only freebie screening, as this needs to get people talking about it.

It will be in cinemas from Nov 30th,

[LondonCityNights]

I went to see it earlier in the year at a SFF event in Haymarket. It's brilliant!

If you've seen it I've tried to write a fairly comprehensive analysis: http://londoncitynights.blogspot.co.uk/ ... y-ben.html

[EthanRunt]

Saw it a few times, first at the SFF event, then at a press screening, which confirmed my suspicions that the film is oddly unfunny, poorly toned (Heavy dramatic intense music when the comedy is so utterly broad it belies the blackness of the story) and nothing more to it than "People kill people". For all the years it was developed from stage to various forms of screen, Lowe and Oram (Nice bloke, bakes good pizza) seemed to have come about with a really bad way of telling their story on screen. I was thinking of better ways of handling the material throughout.

[FBS]

Saw this earlier this week - absolutely loved it. Easily in my top 5 films of the year so far.

[Gergana]

looking forward to watching this film- i need something different and all i read and the trailer are quite harsh but still interesting

[Beate]

Won tickets to this tonight at the Hospital Club which has one of the loveliest and most comfortable screening rooms I have come across but they don't think much of heating the place. It was UTTERLY freezing. Thanks to MariaLionza being so kind and chaperoning my OH to my tube station so we had a very short travel from there, we got there for 6pm and got the last two seats in the back row. There are only 8 though - the whole room only seats 36 on 30 chairs and 6 bean bags. It's a real shame that only between 20 and 25 people turned up - if you win tickets, you really ought to go, pass them on or let the organisers know you can't come so they can re-allocate them. But it meant I had no one in front of me, and an hour in the two people next to that seat also left, so I had an uninterrupted view throughout.

I thought this was wildly funny, because the killings are so shocking and so utterly casual. This 30-something couple just get rid of people that annoy them for one reason or the other, which we all would like to do if we are honest with ourselves, but of course don't do. Those two going on their tour of the best sights that England has to offer (Crich Tramway Village, Pencil Museum), in a caravan and with a kidnapped little dog in tow are just utterly bizarre. They seem normal at first glance and they are very tender to each other but you can see there's a screw or two loose very quickly, her turning into a jealous witch in knitted underwear and him trying to get over his writer's block.

So these two amble along through the rainy English countryside, trying to make friends with people they meet, and suddenly, BAM, a head is smashed into a rock. It really jolts you out of your seat! There's also not much regret going on, with the only worry that it "might ruin our holiday". ("He's not a person, Tina, he's a Daily Mail Reader!") The ending is kind of what I expected - never underestimate harmless looking women who knit a lot.

I have a feeling the Picturehouse Slackers screenings will be a blast tomorrow. And if you annoy me by not agreeing with my review, I might have to kill you.

8/10

P.S. I am pretty sure I went to the Crich Tramway Village once. And to Fountains Abbey. It was a brilliant holiday.

[jojojoanne]

I have a feeling the Picturehouse Slackers screenings will be a blast tomorrow. And if you annoy me by not agreeing with my review, I might have to kill you.

[raj101]

this sounds like it could be my film of the year.

Waiting for Slackers Club tommorrow...

[Ms Thrifty]

this sounds like it could be my film of the year.

Waiting for Slackers Club tommorrow...

Lucky you, raj101 - I didn't realise you still qualified as a student - wish I did!