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Love is in the air at local cinemas
Normally they hold off on this kind of stuff until February, but the BFI is feeling so swoony that its nationwide Love season is here to stimulate your romance glands as the nights draw in.
The Watershed has no fewer than three seasons on offer to loved-up punters. Every Friday in October, Late Night Love brings us the likes of Punch-Drunk Love (Oct 9), Blue is the Warmest Colour (Oct 16), Her (Oct 23) and Let the Right One In (Oct 30). For those who prefer a good old-fashioned sob, November’s Watch and Weep Sunday brunches are Casablanca (Nov 1), Gone with the Wind (Nov 8), Letter from an Unknown Woman (Nov 15), A Matter of Life and Death (Nov 22) and My Beautiful Laundrette (Nov 29). Should your hanky be insufficiently moistened by all of that, the shed’s November reissues programme includes Brief Encounter (Nov 6), True Romance (Nov 20) and Dr. Zhivago (Nov 27).
Not to be outdone, the Curzon Cinema in Clevedon also has True Romance (Dec 4) and Dr. Zhivago (Dec 13). Their two-day Brief Encounter blowout (Nov 28/29) promises added value by whisking us back to the 1940s (minus all that unfortunate business with the Nazis and ration books, presumably) for a nostalgic wallow courtesy of local traders 19 Vintage and Artisan Emporium. The Nov 28 screening is even preceded by a tea dance with music by Andy Quin. In addition, they’re showing Four Weddings and a Funeral (Oct 24) and Hitchcock’s Rebecca (Nov 10), and have teamed up with Walton Castle to screen Casablanca in a turret, with Moroccan-themed nosh on Oct 13.
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The Cube, meanwhile, invites you to enter a cave. That’s not a crude euphemism, but an invitation to join Bioskop for a programme of non-fluffy romantic short films in Redcliffe Caves. There are two screenings on Nov 12.
Finally, as if the Watershed wasn’t already established as Bristol’s most romantic cinema, they’re also showing Love from Nov 20. Adorable, huh? You should perhaps be warned, however, that this is the world’s first 3D hardcore artporn outrage, which will be literally coming at you out of the screen. Naughty old Irreversible director Gaspar Noe has stolen a march on Lars Von Trier by making use of the technology that gave us Gravity and The Martian to deliver a suitably eye-popping unsimulated spurty sex drama centred on a menage a trois. This divided Cannes critics back in May, with The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw warning memorably: ” . . . it often looks like the audience is going to need to duck when the male lead and his hefty phallus turns around, like Eric Sykes and his ladder.”
For full details of what’s showing where, with trailers, see our detailed daily film listings starting here.
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