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Last Night in Soho
2021 · Film · 116 min
Directed by Edgar Wright
A young girl, passionate about fashion design, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters her idol, a dazzling wannabe singer. But 1960s London is not what it seems, and time seems to be falling apart with shady consequences.
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On the one hand Its fun to watch movies alone on a big screen. My area of NJ apparently could care less about movies like Knock Down The House(Biography of AOC and other house candidates), Navalny (Movie about the murdered politician opposing Putin), The Imitation Machine: Movie about Alan Turing or Last Night in Soho (A wonderful Edgar Wright thriller)
On the other hand, I feel sad that no one in my region seems to care enough about these topics. Instead the latest superhero movie is next door packed to the brim and is so loud it rattles the walls to the room playing my quiet documentary with only me sitting inside watching it. :/
At the end of the day, Hollywood is a business unfortunately and his last two films did poorly
Last Night In Soho was a absolute cinematic treat but had mixed reviews. I was fortunate to see it a week before release in 35mm in NYC and it was truly a special moment. But lets be real, even with films being graded on a curve due to the pandemic, the movie still did poorly.
Ok fresh start a few years later with The Running Man. This time he got big money, three time more than Baby Driver. (34mil vs 110mil) and the result? Baby Driver brought in ~227 mil and Running Man? Just ~69 mil.
Maybe he is better off producing smaller budget films and while I want nothing but success for him since he's my all time favorite director: Hollywood is a business. They will not look kindly on someone that keeps losing money.
>16mm/35mm is already fading, with a finite population of prints that dwindles every year as film deteriorates or reels are lost/destroyed.
They are still publishing films in 35mm and at least in popular US cities the format has a following. For example in 2021, Last Night In Soho was printed in 35mm. To be fair the 35mm print was only exhibited in some select locations and only for special screenings. But then we also have 70mm IMAX that despite only has X number of screens left, still manages to attracts sold out screenings for weeks whenever a film (Like Oppenheimer) appears. I also spoke to the people running the Barrymore Film Center in Fort Lee, NJ (They screen 16mm, 35mm and 70mm and they promote Fort Lee as the birthplace of the American Motion Picture Industry). They told me that you can order up thousands of different 35mm films from studio's storage centers (I think there are only two left in the country) and the main issue is delivery costs make it usually not worth it to screen most films.
I am closer to middle age but I have met a lot of youngins who are die hard film people.
Yeah she was a big loss, a 60s bond girl and all-round sex symbol who went on to completely transcend that label and developed into a serious thespian and RSC/Old Vic stalwart. She absolutely holds her own as the Wife of Olivier's Lear.
I'm delighted she got to work with Edgar Wright before her death and put in a great turn in Last Night in Soho; I'd a big fear she'd peter out with a few Dr.Who episodes in a fairly unceremonious end to a glittering and exremely accomplished career.
I was extremely impressed with the standard screens shown at Alamo Drafthouse. In the Downtown LA branch, after seeing Last Night in Soho, I just had to talk to the projectionist. He was kind enough to discuss technical aspects for over an hour. He explained that they do projector and audio calibrations as part of their bring up for adding a new film. The video calibration being a special laser they use from the center of the room combined with the projectionist's gut feel. The audio being setting up microphones through the room and measuring test signals through the different speakers. The results show: the standard screening of Last Night in Soho looked and sounded better than the Dolby version I saw in AMC. AMC does not have this kind of care placed on their screens because I think they have essentially cut their projectionist staff down to the bare minimum.
The article alluded to the massive investment AMC is doing by replacing the majority of their standard screens over to the new Barco Laser projectors. Here in NJ they are rolling these changes out theater by theater. It was really disappointing to see that AMC Empire 25 really messed up the presentation that the author saw as they were one of the first theaters to undergo this renovation.
I have a feeling that many people seeing this will assume that the aversion to specific content is akin to an ordinary distaste for blood and gore, jumpscares, or other "hit or miss" aspects of film. For most of my life I would've agreed, and to be honest I still agree now if I speak only for myself.
For some people, it's not a matter of taste and it's not a matter of getting over it. Call it weakness if you want, call it mental scarring; either way movies should be entertaining, not traumatic. I can't speak to dogs dying, but flippantly watching "Last Night in Soho" with somebody who really didn't need to see that convinced me to start checking the IMDB parental guide before settling on anything.
The structure of the referenced website (long list of yes/no categories with explanation) seems a bit of a bad fit compared to just enumerating potentially problematic features. I guess it enables categorical searching, but it seems pretty bleak to browse through a filter like this.
Ok devil’s advocate. What’s more original? Thor 3: Ragnarok? Or Jojo Rabbit? Both great films imo; both by Taika Waititi.
The former features marvel’s Thor, who’s commercial af. But it goes to a new world, has a markedly different tone, humor, themes, and plot. The plot hits themes of humility and identity and the specifics of the ending were, imo, not very predictable.
Jojo rabbit is set in WWII with all original characters with some great bits, but an overall plot that’s fairly predictable.
You could easily argue it’s still Jojo rabbit, but is there anything obviously bad about how original Thor 3 is? I think no.
And there have been lots of great movies in the past year even. Everything everywhere, Last Night in Soho, massive talent, etc.
Edit: the formulaic rom coms and action movies and comedies were the bigger issue to me. A mildly novel setting, or perhaps, novel buddy cop duo, added far less interesting material than things complained about here.
>Last Night in Soho (nice british movie about London of the 60s)
Someone else mentioning my favorite director and best movie of 2021?
Sir you have just made my day.
I am sure that is also true, but on the other extreme I use IMDB ratings to suggest new movies to myself as within the genres I can watch (i.e. anything where the character doesn't wear a cape and doesn't lecture me about social justice), I find a high correlation between my taste and imdb ratings (and low correlation with most film critics).
A few examples of recent movies that I would have never thought watching but came my way thanks to imbd ratings:
Donny's Bar Mitzvah (too vulgar for its own sake, but very funny)
Last Night in Soho (nice british movie about London of the 60s)
Never look away (biopic of some german painter I never heard of)
There isn't a lot of choice, is there? At least not out of mainstream movies. I only saw Dune and Matrix Resurrections. Dune was okay, not amazing by any means, and it's also half a movie. Resurrections was garbage in every possible way.
Last Night in Soho looks interesting, I guess? I haven't seen it yet but I like Edgar Wright's movies.
> When was the last time you saw actually original[...], creative, non-"mainstream" movies at your city's cinema?
Encanto (11/24)
King Richard (11/19)
Last Night in Soho (10/29)
The French Dispatch (10/22)
I just want to comment at how sad it is that so much money is being wasted on movies like this. It feels like society has irrecoverably shifted to some different reality and thus the studios keep focusing on these films. I was extremely emotionally invested in the success of a recent film by my favorite director: Edgar Wright. The movie "Last Night in Soho" had a supposed production budget of ~40 million but only earned ~4 million on Box office open. It was competing with all non superhero films for scraps because ~90% of the box office profits were taken by the superhero movies/007.