READY OR NOT
Recommended. One example where the title's better in Polish than in the original: "Zabawa w pochowanego" ("Die or Seek" - my translation). '(Bail's) Gambit' mentioned in the opening indicates sacrificing a pawn to prevent a wider destruction. But even if you're not familiar with this chess term, the first scene says it all. Top-notch slasher entertainment. Perfectly acted - you never feel it's fake. Packed with action, a mystery in the background. All genre tropes play well. Psychology's pared down but plausible. The ending makes a sequel likely.
AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL
This year the festival is taking place 2 weeks later (5-11 November) than last year which enables the organizers to get the best films from the Venice and Toronto festivals. All Nowe Horyzonty cinema in Wrocław will be occupied for 6 whole days when more than 250 films will be screened. The Festival Director, Roman Gutek, considers the AFF to be very Wrocław-rooted hence it must differ from Nowe Horyzonty. About 35 movies are released yearly in Poland, about 1000 in the US so the festival is meant to present some of what we normally miss. Many productions won't be on the big screen again. More pictures will be presented at the festival this year than previously. Facebook users chose their 10 favourite directors whose 14 movies are to be shown. "Blade Runner" hasn't been on the big screen since 1995. This year it will return. Rutger Hauer passed away in the meantime so it will kind-of commemorate him too. "Blade Runner 2049" will appear as well. Opening "Irishman" will be available on Netflix later on - all Netflix pictures at the festival will be streamed on the platform one week after. The US in Progress section will include 6 American movies in need of post-production and 4 Polish ones looking for co-operation. More than 30 directors, actors and producers are coming as guests, including Ari Aster with "Midsomar - Director's Cut". "Amazing Grace: Aretha Franklin" will have a special screening at Muranow cinema in Warsaw. Long-standing co-operation with Watch Docs means they pick a few social documentaries from theirs, meaning a handful will be at both festivals. Festival tickets are on sale already. The online program allows you to prepare your own schedule.
GEMINI MAN 3D
Watchable. Top-notch 3D and full-colour, very clear pictures and sound make the movie... just bearable. The problem is it looks as artificial as language course videos. Columbian Cartagena or Budapest Spas look too fake to truly work as locations in the picture. The plot is overly simplistic, with lines like: "She's good. She just doesn't know what she doesn't know".Clive Owen acts the same in every movie. I liked the very ending though: the two clones' talk on the college campus, e.g. "I made those mistakes so you don't have to."
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