Comments for Wincanton Film Society

Comment on New Posting System by johnsmith

johnsmith — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:49:43 +0000

Hi
Thanks for your mail. Please e-mail me at john@wincantonfilm.co.uk with as much imnfo as possible and we can look at this and see what can be done for you.

Kind regards

John Smith

Comment on New Posting System by jo scott

jo scott — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:37:22 +0000

we’d like to do a one-off film night (a la Screen Bites) but are not sure what we’d need in terms of hardware….screens, projector, speakers……. can you advise? we have diddly-squat in terms of money so the bare minumum please

Comment on The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest by Penny Ashton

Penny Ashton — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:35:53 +0000

Am I the only person who was vaguely disappointed that Lisbet was finally vindicated through the system rather than her own efforts? I had the feeling that the Robin Hood / anti establishment type character that she was would have organised things her own way, not the way of the establishment.

That said I thought it was a good film, although the first one of the three was definitely the best. Are we going to think about showing the English versions next? I don’t know if I am keen on that or not.

Comment on To Kill a Mocking Bird by johnsmith

johnsmith — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:59:04 +0000

Describe what you mean by poor sound. Do you mean there was crackling, or was was it muffled? That would help us to check this out. We need to have the information so that we can make sure we don’t have any technical issues with our equipment. I know that the DVD stated that sound was “Mono”, and it is an old film, so if it was duplicated from the original old movie with the sound of the day, it may be simply that it was indeed old sound.

Comment on To Kill a Mocking Bird by Penny Ashton

Penny Ashton — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:41:39 +0000

Much better than I expected. It managed to give equal balance to the two main story lines in the book and remain true to them. The atmosphere of the Deep South was apparent throughout – sometimes reminiscent of ‘The Heat of the Night’. Although much had to be cut from the book in order not to have a film 6 hours long, this was not noticeable and some of the dialogue was lifted verbatim.

Just a shame that the sound quality was not always good at times – I don’t know whether this was because it was an old film, or an accoustic problem of PEC or our equipment, but it did not spoil my enjoyment – a truly great film of a truly great book.

Comment on The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest by John

John — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:20:06 +0000

This is the final one in the trilogy folks. Start spreading the news as old Sinatra once said. Now is the time to read the books again and see if you can get up to date by the time we show the film.

Comment on To Kill a Mocking Bird by John

John — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:18:22 +0000

Well Penny, did the film live up to your expectations?

Comment on To Kill a Mocking Bird by johnsmith

johnsmith — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:49:05 +0000

I gather that the book is very popular in schools. I’ve seen the film, but never read the book.

Comment on The Social Network by johnsmith

johnsmith — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:47:50 +0000

Apologies for being so slow to upload the comments. Don’t stop. Keep them coming.

Comment on The Social Network by Penny Underwood

Penny Underwood — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:13:29 +0000

Am I the only person who enjoyed this film? I guess if you are a big internet user, which I am, then the story of Facebook and how it became so big so quickly is interesting. I do agree that it was difficult to understand what was being said as they talked so fast.