Vienna, one month ago: Neil and I, in town for the city’s annual international film festival, get wind of a nearby press screening for Spectre, the new James Bond picture. Both of our upcoming schedules suggest that if we’re to get in on this cultural phenomenon, if we’re even to see it, we’ll have to wait till at least mid-November, owing to the slim chances of there being undubbed, original-language screenings in any of the far-flung locales we’re traveling to next. The wind changed—twice. First, we were welcome to attend the press screening in question so long as we didn’t mind the small fact that it was going to be in German. We did. But then came the prestige: it was going to screen in English after all. Smashing.If you’re going to crash a party, do it proper. Each of the...
- 11/24/2015
- by Michael Pattison
- MUBI
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