An old guy takes his two grandchildren to visit Auschwitz to bring home the horrors of the holocaust to them. They end up ordering pizza and spending the night in the former death camp. Black comedy or just totally disturbing?
This is actually the title and synopsis of one of the films playing at the festival. I felt sorry for the grandfather in the film because the children couldn't give a rat's arse about where they were or what he was trying to do. They knew about the holocaust because they had been taught about it from a young age, but they kept asking their grandfather if they could go home because it was cold and they could see little point visiting something that held a lot more meaning for him, then for them. There is a very big divide in the generational gap and some of the older generation seem to have trouble letting this go and allowing their children to move on.
I think I must have done something to annoy the festival organisers as they haven't shown up at the cinema since last Wednesday. Not that I'm complaining - things run a lot more smoothly without them running about like headless chickens trying to wind up anyone within range. Ho hum!
My Tech Manager commented to me the other day that he was having trouble understanding how the organisers could be so rude. I shrugged and told him not to let it bother him. Just do our jobs, smile and take the money. Simply put, we don't get paid enough to deal with the kind of insulting behaviour the organisers think is normal. So the best thing we can do is ignore them when they behave like spoilt children, and just get on with out work.
The chairman of the festival thoroughly upset one of my cinema manager's with his arrogant and rude behaviour last week. My manager already wasn't feeling well when he tried to bully her and she has been off sick since last Tuesday. I said the same thing to her that I said to my Tech Manager - they're not worth worrying about.
On a positive note, we have only had one technical glitch and it was due to a faulty disc that was provided by the festival. Everything else has run smoothly. I know this year has been better than last year - the producer hasn't been calling me every five minutes. Woo hoo!
Sunday, 15 November 2009
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Favourite Films
- About Schmidt - "Jeanie might be a little past her prime, but I still think she could have done a lot better!"
- Frost/Nixon - "I'm saying if the President does it, that makes it legal!"
- Ghostbusters - "You don't generally see that kind of behaviour in a house hold appliance."
- Aliens - "Game over man!"
- Terminator 2 Judgement Day - "Why do you cry?"
- Star Trek 2 The Wrath of Khan - "Aren't you dead?"
- Run Lola Run - "I fucked up Lola!"
- Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix - "I must just have missed it, but by a happy coincidence I arrived at the ministry an hour early"
- Goldeneye - "How original!"
- The Fifth Element - "Anybody else want to negotiate?"
- The Royal Tenenbaums - "Eli just ran his car into our house."
- Kill Bill - "Blonde bitch!"
- Kung Fu Hustle - "Hey fatso. How about you?"
- The Incredibles - "We look like criminals Bob! Inept criminals!"
- Spiderman - "I hunch."
- Dirty Harry - "I see a guy chasing a woman screaming, I shoot the bastard. That's my policy."
- Gran Torino - "Get off my lawn!"
- The Bourne Identity - "How can I know all of that and not know who I am?"
- Dodgeball - "If you can dodge traffic you can dodge balls!"
- The Jungle Book - "Man village? They'll ruin him. They'll make a man out of him!"
- Role Models - "Kiss are great! All their songs are about fucking!"
- Up - "So long suckers!"
- All About Eve - "Eve, Eve, Eve!"
- The Usual Suspects - "Have you ever tried to shoot the devil in the back? What if you miss?"
- Star Trek - "Space, the final frontier..."
- American Beauty - "I think your parents haven't had sex in a long time!"
- Coraline - "It's Coraline, not Caroline!"
- Gladiator - "Strength and Honour"
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