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John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert)
Username: John_l_probert

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 80.229.90.65
Posted on Saturday, October 10, 2009 - 02:19 pm:   

Has anyone seen this?

http://www.watershed.co.uk/exhibits/2049/

I'm thinking of Huw here . It sounds like it might be deliciously immoral fun.
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Zed (Gary_mc)
Username: Gary_mc

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.96.240.106
Posted on Saturday, October 10, 2009 - 06:07 pm:   

I've been waiting to see this one for ages. Sounds bloody great.
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Joel (Joel)
Username: Joel

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 91.110.155.16
Posted on Saturday, October 10, 2009 - 06:44 pm:   

Sounds more like a bruise than a film. In a good way.

Thirst itself is a disturbing theme, and one that will become more topical as global warming leads to water wars. On an individual level, Adam Mars-Jones' The Waters of Thirst is a very fine novel about an epicure living with kidney failure. Which may sound silly but isn't.
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Allybird (Allybird)
Username: Allybird

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 80.47.222.21
Posted on Saturday, October 10, 2009 - 08:24 pm:   

I always bear in mind that if there is a shortage of something we value we are always one step away from a 'water war.' I'd like to think that we'd all be fair but if you saw your child suffering because someone had stolen...what they needed to survive - what would you do?
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Kate (Kathleen)
Username: Kathleen

Registered: 09-2009
Posted From: 93.96.181.75
Posted on Saturday, October 10, 2009 - 09:12 pm:   

It's a date, Lord P!
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Frank (Frank)
Username: Frank

Registered: 09-2008
Posted From: 213.158.199.83
Posted on Saturday, October 10, 2009 - 11:59 pm:   

If it weren't for this thread, I'd never have spotted it among the 200 films showing now at the 25th Warsaw Film Festival. It's got one showing this Thursday, and I'm definitely going. Holy Christ, it won the jury prize at Cannes, and it's the director of Old Boy!

All of this makes up for the fact that when Ewa and I got to the festival all of the tickets for Moon, Fish Tank and 500 Days of Summer, had sold out. And then to top it, Warsaw is having its first horror film festival in two weeks!

Thank you Lord Probert.
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Huw (Huw)
Username: Huw

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 218.168.182.226
Posted on Sunday, October 11, 2009 - 12:06 am:   

I've been waiting to see this one for about two years, when I first heard about it! It's being released on Region 3 DVD next month, and I've already preordered a copy. I'm surprised it hasn't been shown at the cinemas here as we nearly always get to see the latest films from other countries in Asia simultaneously.

Frank, I hope you enjoy it - let us know what you think!
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Huw (Huw)
Username: Huw

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 218.168.182.226
Posted on Sunday, October 11, 2009 - 12:21 am:   

Apparently it's inspired in part by Emile Zola's novel Therese Raquin, which I haven't read. Anyone here familiar with it?

I take it Lord and Lady Probert will be gracing theatres with their presence when Thirst opens next Friday? Make sure you wear your best blood-red blazer, Lord P.
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Frank (Frank)
Username: Frank

Registered: 09-2008
Posted From: 213.158.199.83
Posted on Sunday, October 11, 2009 - 12:28 am:   

Huw - I will, mate. But I'm sure it won't be a patch on 30 Days of Night
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Huw (Huw)
Username: Huw

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 218.168.182.226
Posted on Sunday, October 11, 2009 - 12:44 am:   



Oddly enough, while Thirst seems to have bypassed Taiwan entirely, I've just noticed that Let the Right One In is on at the moment. I'm hoping to see it one day this week.

While we're on the topic of vampires, does anyone know whether the series True Blood is any good? I've seen lots of positive reviews...
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Frank (Frank)
Username: Frank

Registered: 09-2008
Posted From: 213.158.199.83
Posted on Sunday, October 11, 2009 - 12:52 am:   

Huw - I don't fancy watching True Blood, even though I believe the creator was responsible for the much touted 'Six Feet Under'. I read a review when it first came out in Newsweek which described it as cliched, formulaic and sometimes laughable. Since then it's gone from strength to strength. I think for a mainstream audience not interested in genre it's probably quite different from the norm, but for hardcore genre fans it is most likely rubbish.

I could be wrong, though.

And 'Let The Right One In', I shiver with anticipation that it might even surpass 'The Inglorious Basterds' as the best movie of the year.

I bet you're going to tell me that you're not that fond of Taratino, aren't you.
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John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert)
Username: John_l_probert

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 88.202.211.71
Posted on Sunday, October 11, 2009 - 12:54 am:   

Huw - Lady P and I will almost definitely be gracing Bristol's finest arts cinema on Friday the 23rd when this opens. And yes, finally the weather is cold enough for me to get my reddest bloodiest velvet out of the oak trunk in which it has been kept in a state of exquisite perfection
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Huw (Huw)
Username: Huw

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 218.168.182.226
Posted on Sunday, October 11, 2009 - 01:07 am:   

I'm glad to hear it, Your Majesty!
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Kate (Kathleen)
Username: Kathleen

Registered: 09-2009
Posted From: 93.96.181.75
Posted on Sunday, October 11, 2009 - 08:54 am:   

Damn, red's gonna clash with the purple corset I just bought. Ah well, it's an excuse to buy a black one, I suppose. I'll probably need some opera gloves as well to keep from freezing to death.
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John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert)
Username: John_l_probert

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 88.202.211.71
Posted on Sunday, October 11, 2009 - 10:05 am:   

It IS rather chily down here in Bristol at the moment, although Probert Towers is filled with roaring fires. No matter how I hard try to stop that demented dung-smeared individual who lives on the fourth floor they keeps finding the matches.
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John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert)
Username: John_l_probert

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 88.202.207.22
Posted on Saturday, October 24, 2009 - 10:06 am:   

So as promised we went to see this last night and I'll just say it's great to see good horror movies of all types on the big screen at the moment. Dorian Gray was a great Hammer film, Triangle is a great Twilight Zone episode, and Thirst is...well...something completely different.

Quirky, original and absolutely well worth looking out for, it's not quite the 'pursuit of sensual pleasures' the poster seemed to proclaim. It is however deliciously sexy, with some of the scenes being the most horrifically erotic I have ever seen. What's also a pleasure is that mixed in with this are moments of genuine absurd humour.

This is a very, very good, very original take on the vampire theme, with passionate sex, unpleasant bloodletting, and an ending that is beautiful, heartbreaking and just perfect. I would say it's Twilight for grown ups but as I have no intention of ever watching the Robert Pattinson-starrer I'm not really qualified to say that.
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Stephen Walsh (Stephenw)
Username: Stephenw

Registered: 03-2009
Posted From: 82.0.106.15
Posted on Saturday, October 24, 2009 - 10:43 am:   

Apparently it's inspired in part by Emile Zola's novel Therese Raquin, which I haven't read. Anyone here familiar with it?

Read it and it's a one-off gothic masterpiece. Part ghost story, part obsessive illicit love story, part crime thriller.

Think the themes of 'Wuthering Heights' and 'Crime And Punishment' transposed to France and shot through with Poe's sense of poetic decay and guilty family secrets.

The only Zola I've read (on a gothic horror fans recommendation) and I'd rank it one of the greatest of all 19th Century novels.
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Huw (Huw)
Username: Huw

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 218.168.180.51
Posted on Saturday, October 24, 2009 - 10:00 pm:   

Lord P, thank you for your report on Thirst - needless to say, I'm now even more eager to see it!

Stephen, the Zola novel sounds intriguing. I will definitely be looking for a copy. I think the only weird/supernatural fiction I've read by Zola is his story Angeline.
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Stephen Walsh (Stephenw)
Username: Stephenw

Registered: 03-2009
Posted From: 82.0.106.15
Posted on Sunday, October 25, 2009 - 02:42 pm:   

'Therese Raquin' is also one of the most powerful depictions of a descent into guilty madness I have read while the ghostly supernatural elements are straight out of Poe. Highly recommended!

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