Coming in to land at Heathrow many years ago, the announcement to stay in seats until plane came to a complete stop had been given.
There then followed an announcement requesting volunteers to help clear up a malfunction in the plane’s toilets so they could effect a quick turnaround for the next flight.
“Volunteers should make themselves known to the crew by standing in the aisle next to their seat”
I’ve done this in the attic and it’s amazing, especially given the projector was only a couple of hundred Euro. It’s not quite setup properly and I want to get a proper screen but even so…
That’s great! It’s what we’d like to do (but as well as going to the cinema!)
Is it easy for a numpty?
Is that just projected onto a wall ? What projector is it ? I may be interested in doing this sort of thing.
Very, I’ve just stuck it on a tripod for the moment but there are many mounting options and they’re are options to scale the picture to fit. I’ve just stuck an Amazon Firestick in the back, though it’s also connected to a surround sound system. Before we moved, I used a JBL Charge Bluetooth speaker for sound and it was absolutely acceptable.
Yes, straight on the wall for the moment but I plan to get a proper screen when time permits.
It’s this projector
My thinking was that I’d try a cheap one and see how it went, then replace with a decent one but I’m probably just going to keep it as it’s surprisingly good. It is a little loud during quiet pieces but, other than that, I have no complaints.
I was impressed when we got an Aer Lingus flight to Dublin a few years ago. When it landed everyone remained seated!
I bought a data projector about seven years ago for the same purpose, was already very familiar with them because they’d replaced slide projectors for art history lectures around the the turn of the century. Don’t like the way large TV screens dominate a room and the idea was to suspend the projector from a beam and have a wall-mounted pull-down screen.
However, I wasn’t very happy with picture quality and so reverted to 17" laptop and going more often to the cinema. I’m sure there’s much better available now, but I quite like the intimacy of the laptop in HD and if I want to look beyond it to the wall, there’s a large, very good painting of forty different Solway skies, all painted from the same spot.
Finally our cinema reopens having been take over by the commune in place of an association. A young very enthusiastic couple are managing it and have already made changes including popcorn 
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Anyway, Le Mohican.
Interesting film about the struggle between a Corsican goat shepherd and the mafiosa developers who want his land. Very much a contemporary western, good v evil, and partly played out through social media as well as good old fashioned shooting and lurching through undergrowth covered in blood. Nice landscape photography.
A film with no actual full stop at the end, which I find annoying. I like a proper end.
But half in French and half in Corsican so quite challenging. Luckily the script was sparse.
And based on reality
Good to see the thread’s returning to film rather than the technology of its display. Unfortunately we’ve not been to the cinema since a superb triple burst a few weeks ago of Maria and The Room Next Door followed by A Complete Unknown.
Finally la rentrée and the local cinema’s programming is not 100% family/kids films.
Un Simple Accident which is Jafar Panahi’s latest film and winner of a Palme F’or at Cannes this year.
I found it mixed as very theatrical with some strong set pieces, and then slightly weird linking scenes. It is, as all his films are, very political and critical of the Iranian regime. But without being a turgid polemic.
Basically a story about some ex-prisoners of the regime confronting one of their torturers. In places very powerful, and in others some near slapstick for light relief - not all of which worked. But the characters drew you in, so you wanted to know what happened.
The direction was focused, and the premise was quite original, so overall I found it a film worth watching. But a lot of script, all in Farsi of course, so I had to read fast.
This is a hugely powerful film that I think everyone who has an interest in the war in Gaza must see - or perhaps more important if you don’t.
There were only a few of us in our cinema as usual, but when it finished there was total silence and no one budged for a long time. We were all completely shaken.
It’s very simple, a year long series of conversations filmed on a mobile phone with very dodgy internet connections between two women. A mature Iranian film director, Sepideh Farsi, in the West talking to a young Palestinien photographer Fatima Hassouna living in Gaza. It was obvious that they had many other exchanges as the relationship between them became strong.
They were both speaking in English, and whilst Fatem’s english was good there were times when I think it would have been better for her to speak Arabic and have it translated. I won’t say that much about it apart from that it truly bears witness to the hell that is Gaza through the medium of a remarkable young woman talking about her life with such strength. That may sound dull but it was gripping .
And also chilling. The day after this film was nominated to be shown at a European Film Festival she and her family were killed by the Israelis in Gaza, adding to the long list of murdered journalists. A mere coincidence?
Really, really worth seeing.
One difference (amongst one or two others) that I’ve noticed between provincial UK and provincial France is the here cinema audiences tend to stay until the credits have finished rolling (or maybe it only typical of the sort of films we go to view).
Edit: have just glanced at our local cinema’s upcoming films and noticed that there’s a depressing three way split between crappy action movies, crappy comedy and about half or more is digital kid’s cartoon stuff.
It’s half term 
I sometimes suspect that French school kids have three terms and six half term hols a year. Though doubtless in due course Tory or Vero will correct me…
More seriously, I sometimes get the impression that ‘young people’ would rather watch a film on a tiny phone screen than in a cinema.
Yes I agree. But this time everyone was still in place in silence 5 minutes after the lights had come back on. Never had that before.
Sounds very moving, however we already fight every evening (metaphorically) while watching Fr24’s coverage of ‘all that’.
This gives a totally different perspective. If there’s the opportunity near you then invest 2 hours of your life watching this remarkable young woman.
Went with the missus to see this last night…
I’m too young to have known much about this couple, so I couldn’t tell you if it was a good representation of their story or not.
But did you like it? Before my time as well, but I did see Room at the Top once. I just have an impression of a couple very much of their time, but with left wing interests.
Yes, overall I thought the acting was very good, as was the script.
