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I haven't seen it listed. I would think it will be shown somewhere. I'd guess the Belmont if anywhere?

Do Mogwai do the whole soundtrack?

I love football and I love Zidane but I don't know if I could maintain an interest through the whole film, I've read some really bad reviews.

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Do Mogwai do the whole soundtrack?
I think so.
I love football and I love Zidane but I don't know if I could maintain an interest through the whole film, I've read some really bad reviews.

I thought that as well but have only read good reviews. And some interesting arguements about whether it's Cinema or Art. There's bound to be some great sweating if nothing else.

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The Belmont had it on a few weeks back if I remember correctly.

No, we haven't had it yet. We are showing it at some point in the near future - should be in the next brochure. If I remember I'll post it up here.

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No, we haven't had it yet. We are showing it at some point in the near future - should be in the next brochure. If I remember I'll post it up here.

You had it on one Sunday morning if I remember correctly - a free showing for an offer through The Sunday Times.

It's out on DVD in January - http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/1131899/Zidane_A_21st_Century_Portrait/Product.html

Mogwai soundtrack is out on the 30th Oct - tracklisting is.....

Black Spider

Terrific Speech 2

Wake Up And Go Berserk

Terrific Speech 1

7:25

Half Time

I Do Have Weapons

Time And A Half

It Would Have Happened Anyway

Black Spider 2

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You had it on one Sunday morning if I remember correctly - a free showing for an offer through The Sunday Times.

Yep, as a cheapskate I normally lap up these free screenings, but this film looked really, really boring.

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Don't go all the way to London to see it, it's coming out on DVD in January.

This isn't something like Star Wars or 2001 that you can enjoy on a telly. This is a guy kicking a football for an hour and a half, you have to see it on the big screen. ;)

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This isn't something like Star Wars or 2001 that you can enjoy on a telly. This is a guy kicking a football for an hour and a half, you have to see it on the big screen. ;)

Mind you, for true authenticity, you had to be at the actual game!

I was lucky enough to see Zidane against Scotland a few years back (a jammy 5-0 win to them). I'd rate him as "nae shite".

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Mind you, for true authenticity, you had to be at the actual game!

I was lucky enough to see Zidane against Scotland a few years back (a jammy 5-0 win to them). I'd rate him as "nae shite".

Vogts' first game in charge I believe.

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Vogts' first game in charge I believe.

Indeed it was. We should have sacked him on the spot and saved ourselves 2 years of decay!

I had a complimentary ticket to see the Real V's Leverkusen final at Hampden when Zizu scored that beautiful volley........and a couple of days before......snapped my knee ligaments and couldn't go. I also missed Bad Religion that week for the same reason :-(

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Indeed it was. We should have sacked him on the spot and saved ourselves 2 years of decay!

I had a complimentary ticket to see the Real V's Leverkusen final at Hampden when Zizu scored that beautiful volley........and a couple of days before......snapped my knee ligaments and couldn't go. I also missed Bad Religion that week for the same reason :-(

When you some to write your autobiography I'd label the chapter describing that weeks events as "My Shite Week".

Still, every cloud has a silver lining - you did manage to miss Bad Religion.

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Still' date=' every cloud has a silver lining - you did manage to miss Bad Religion.

One man's silver lining is another's darkest cloud. ?(

Anyway, back to Zidane, anyone actually seen the film? and when is "Dempsey" being made? Flaming Katy have a soundtrack ready. :up:

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Anyway, back to Zidane, anyone actually seen the film?

Review from Mark Kermode:

Other alarmingly anomalous lowlights of this year's Cannes 'Film' Festival included Zidane: a 21st Century Portrait, a conceptual art installation posing as a movie in which cameras lovingly track the now infamous head-butting footballer around the pitch for the duration of a Villareal versus Real Madrid match. Zidane is co-directed by Scottish artist Douglas Gordon, whose previous indulgences include screening a slowed-down version of Hitchcock's best-known film under the banner 24 Hour Psycho, and projecting The Exorcist and The Song of Bernadette simultaneously on to the same screen for the pretentiously entitled Between Darkness and Light (After William Blake). Both exercises illustrated a profound lack of understanding of their pillaged cinematic sources. But at least Douglas committed these follies in art galleries, where Zidane also belongs, along with the recently released artporn compilation Destricted, which is far more at home at Tate Modern than in the multiplexes. From Friday, Zidane will also be cluttering up selected UK cinemas, thanks to a growing trend that is gradually eroding the discipline of 'film-making' under the glib banner of 'diversity'.

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1879500,00.html

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This isn't something like Star Wars or 2001 that you can enjoy on a telly. This is a guy kicking a football for an hour and a half, you have to see it on the big screen. ;)

Exactly (although I'm not sure about that winking face)... and it's only a 100 minute / 11 return bus ride from Oxford. And it is... the inimitable... Monsieur Zidane...

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  • 3 weeks later...

Anyone been to see it then? I went this afternoon and I must say I was pretty disappointed. I mean, I love Zidane as much as the next guy but this was really quite dull and boring, the music didn't compliment it that much, and it just lacked in any spark at all. I'm not entirely sure what Gordon was going for with it, maybe if I "got it" I could've enjoyed it more. Six people left during the film and to make things worse, these four French guys were having conversations at spoeaking volume throughout, with one of their watches bleeping every fucking five minutes.

Anyone who doesn't like football would take nothing from it, and those who do, I presume have been disappointed also. It's not like the game was that spectacular in the first place, and even though that's not the subject, I just found it hard to read deep into it. The little bits of commentary Zidane included was interesting enough, some more of that wouldn't have gone a miss.

So, overall, 3/10. Nice cinematography and, errrr, Zidane's face. Those were the saving Graces.

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