Pub for after Walk the Line

There's not much choice for pubs after the film club on Monday. There are two nearby - one is a smallish local place called the forty fives and the other is one of these student 'It's a Scream' pubs called The Hayfield.

Slightly further along Mile End Road (and maybe better) is The Half Moon. This is a Wetherspoons and maybe be better for discussion (they don't play music).

We'll decide after the film...

February film club: Walk the Line

As you know, the next film club on 20 February is the much talked-about Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line, starring Joaquin Phoenix as the ‘Man in Black’, and Reese Witherspoon as June Carter. The movie is directed by James Mangold (Girl, Interrupted, Copland). Watch the Trailer here. Time Out have a video interview with Joaquin.

The film traces Cash’s life up until 1968 when he ‘cleaned up’ married June Carter, and features the classic prison gigs at San Quentin and Folsom. It’s been hard to avoid it lately, with the combination of film, music, a lengendary figure, good looking people, tales of'proper' method acting by Phoenix, and multiple awards given or hoped for, meaning it's been covered by just about every magazine in the world. It's been received pretty well by the critics too.

The venue will be a central London cinema (possibly Curzon Mayfair) for an early evening screening. I'll confirm the cinema and time to closer to the 20th.

Once again, let me know if you want to come. Looking forward to it already.

It's awards season!

It's all gone awards crazy at the moment. We've had the Golden Globes, and now we've got the Oscars to look forward to, with all the attendant glitz and glamour. Looks like Brokeback Mountain is going to sweep to victory come 5 March, with probably some notable winners from Walk the Line and Capote. My guess is that Spielberg will be disappointed though. We'll see. The full list of noms are here. What are my predictions? Have a look here. If you really want to, you can keep up to date with all the details of the Oscar run-up.


We've also got our very own Baftas, jumping up and down shouting for attention and credibility, and desperately claiming to be some sort of Oscar predictor. If that was the case, The Constant Gardener would be much higher on the Hollywood agenda, as it's up for 10 Baftas, and as I'm sure it's a fine film (I can't believe I haven't seen it yet!) I hope it does well. Apart from that, the Bafta list does look remarkaby like the Oscar one. Still, 19 Feb should be fun. I usually watch it, and I'm sure this year will be no exception.

So what are your predictions? Or what would you have prefered to have seen nominated?