52 London movie festival
I was very much interested in this event and already chose the movies I wanted to see, as I was quite often on the home page of the festival. However when we already were about to book tickets online all the tickets to those movies were sold out. So we chose less popular "the Good, the Bad, and the Weird", a new Korean movie, which Andrejs found absolutely cool. Since last summer I saw an old Italian "the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" movie, I already knew what the Korean movie will be about and did not expect much, however all in all the movie was surprisingly not bad at all. Of cause it wasn't original after all and looked more like Adventure/Action movie, sort of like Pirates of Carribean rather than Western type of movie but it was absolutely funny as in some part I couldn't stop laughing and went out from the cinema in a very positive mood.
Zorro musical
This definitely wouldn't the first musical I would choose to see, but as I was planning to see some musicals anyway and Philipp with his sister who were in London this time have already made their arrangements, I joined them for that musical. I cannot really say whether it was good or bad as I have nothing to compare it to, but it definitely wasn't boring and I really enjoyed one of the actors/singers play. As I was very keen on changing place in the theater to get a better view, as a punishment I lost my gloves during those moves somewhere :(
National portrait gallery exhibitions
This is the place I am keeping coming back to every time I pass Trafalgar square and I have spare time. In general I skip all paintings dated below 18-th century as I absolutely don't enjoy them, but one time there was an amazing exhibition of the best selected portraits done this year by not sure now, but probably British painters. Yesterday we went there to see photographer's Annie Leibovitz exhibition, to which as we arrived all the tickets for that day were sold out, despite of it's 11 pounds entrance price. Very disappointing, but in any case it will stay there till February, so we still have plenty of time.
In general on the weekend in London it's like this - if you haven't taken care of booking the tickets to some event in advance, there is almost no chance you gonna see it... Big city life...
4 comments:
Compared to BZ: short movie festival 5 days, for free, plenty of places, terrific movies, including the selection from Tampere short movie festival.
Most of art exhibitions around are for free too :)
Of course, the exhibits are not comparable to the unique portrait exhibition instead.
yeah, that one I won't miss for sure, dunno if we are talking about the same short movie festival, but the one I am planning to attend is called "6th London Short Film Festival" and it will last 9 days, from Fri 9 to Sun 18 Jan 2009, however I am not so sure it gonna be free. Which one have you been to?
This is a very good thing about London, many exhibitions, museums are for free, they also are changing quite often, just need to keep informed not to miss something you want to see.
This was Bolzano short film festival, I have no idea if it is comparable to the one in London. I could only compare it to the same festival in previous years, I would say it has grown to become better, movies were really interesting, especially the experimentals program.
Yeah, the cultural events in London could be one of the candidate arguments for liking the city, not every big city is like that.
ah, ok, I confused, I thought you've been to one in London. In fact Bolzano film festival is the reason why I want to see something similar here. I really liked it. I ve been to 2 of them since I came to Bolzano (I had to skip last year) but I don't remember tickets were free, every time I had to pay
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