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FILM HUFF Re: cinema listings I have not bought The List since you stopped publishing movie screening times. I am a very old film fan, now restricted to visiting the GFT only. They publish dates and times of screenings. All the newspapers now supress all information about films. They tantalise us with reviews. Sometimes they go to the length of naming the cinema and the day a film is showing! Are we supposed to turn up in the morning and hang about all day until the film starts?
telephone every single cinema every week until I track it down? I am advised that I have to buy a poncey screen and learn how to use it. Why should I have to? This information should be available to all. Mrs M Gardner, Glasgow.
Thanks for getting in touch, Mrs Gardner. Unfortunately, since cinemas
change their schedule on a weekly basis, it was impractical for us to
keep printing cinema listings when
we switched to publishing every
four weeks. However, both the GFT
I cannot even visit my local, the and The Grosvenor release printed
Grosvenor. No information is published anywhere about the Grosvenor. If I read a review and fancy a film, am I supposed to
programmes every week – the GFT will even deliver to your door if you sign up
for their mailing list. Hope that helps!
SKYFAIL Re: Skyfall (●●●●●) I thoroughly enjoyed the opening graphics and the Bond bullethole, and the silhouette and Bond theme at the end. The two-and- a-quarter hours in between had me yawning and looking at my watch every 20 minutes. I’m 61 and loved the glamorous settings of the 1960s Bond films so this stuff left me cold . . . Maybe Bond needed the Cold War to really be what he was meant to be. For me this was two-and-a-half hours of my life and six pounds wasted. My advice if you’re my age and are used to the Cold War Bond, go and spend your money on something else. Comment posted by Roachman on list.co.uk
THE QUESTION WHAT’S YOUR FAVOURITE BURNS QUOTATION? We ask the question, you give the answer. Join in on Twitter @thelistmagazine and Facebook
@mike_mcgrail Simple – ‘a man’s a man for a’ that.’ A lot of meaning in those few words. Linda Forbes ’That man to man, the world o’er / Shall brothers be for a’ that.’
Philip Kingscott ’O wad some Power the giftie gie us / To see oursels as ithers see us!’ Aine Fergus Keenan ’Wee, sleekit, cow’rin, tim’rous beastie.’
Stuart McKinlay ’Some books are lies frae end to end / And some great lies were never penn’d!’ Linda Buttery-Sims ’Give us the grace to see ourselves as others see us.’
Wendy Aird ’A man’s a man for a’ that.’
Joyce McMillan Linda’s got my favourite. Although I also like the bit that comes just before, ‘For a’ that, and a’ that / It’s comin’ yet for a’ that / That man to man, the world o’er / Shall brothers be, for a’ that’ And the cheeky bit about Nature, from ‘Green Grow The Rashes O’ – ‘Her prentice han’ she try’d on man / An’ then she made the lasses, O.’
Minturn Alexander Mitchell ’Hey, brave Johnie lad, cock up your beaver!’ ■ Burns Night, various events nationwide, Fri 25 Jan, see preview, page 35.
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