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The Projector 10th Anniversary Screening: The Room
At the intersection of “baffling storytelling”, “awful acting” and “hypnotically watchable” sits The Room (2003, M18, 100 minutes), a movie that has since its release spawned countless memes and turned midnight screenings into participatory theatre.
To mark the 10th anniversary of The Projector, the indie cinema presents an interactive screening of the American cult classic, complete with complimentary cutlery for the spoon-throwing segment of the show.
The unintentional comedy once described as “a film made by an alien who has never seen a film but has had the concept described to him” opens with rich banker Johnny (Tommy Wiseau, who wrote, directed and funded the film) and his beloved Lisa (Juliette Danielle) living in bliss. That is until Lisa decides to have an affair with Johnny’s best friend Mark (Greg Sestero). Drama ensues, conveyed by Wiseau in a cinematic language all his own.
Where: 05-00, The Projector at Cineleisure, 8 Grange Road
MRT: Somerset
When: Jan 25, 8pm
Admission: $18 on weekends, $16 concession for students, full-time national servicemen and seniors
Info: str.sg/8C8Y
Paddington In Peru (PG)
106 minutes, now showing
★★★★☆
Ben Whishaw voices the titular character in Paddington In Peru.PHOTO: SONY PICTURES
Paddington (voiced by Ben Whishaw) has a shiny new British passport – and just in time too. His beloved Aunt Lucy (Imelda Staunton) goes missing in the wilds of Peru and he must travel to his birth country to search for her with his Brown foster family and their doughty housekeeper, Mrs Bird (Julie Walters).
Paddington In Peru is a franchise threequel by feature film newcomer Dougal Wilson that takes the bear far from the English idiosyncrasies of 1950s London for an exotic jungle treasure hunt.
Spanish star Antonio Banderas rolls in as a swarthy riverboat captain who is haunted by the ghosts of his gold-crazy ancestors, all of them Banderas in cameos and all the more hilarious for being an homage to German cineaste Werner Herzog’s 1982 classic adventure Fitzcarraldo. – Whang Yee Ling
An Unfinished Film (M18)
106 minutes, now showing exclusively at The Projector
★★★★☆
Qin Hao in An Unfinished Film.PHOTO: THE PROJECTOR
In January 2020, a film crew reunites outside Wuhan, China, to complete a decade-old production when word of an illness starts to circulate.
An Unfinished Film by Chinese cinema maverick Lou Ye is a transfixing docu-fiction, winner of the 2024 Golden Horse Awards’ Best Narrative Feature and Best Director, as well as the Audience Award at the 2024 Singapore International Film Festival.
Lou has been banned and censored over much of his 20-year career, most infamously for setting his 2006 romance, Summer Palace, against the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.
In An Unfinished Film, the city is locked down within hours. In tense footage, the crew members play and film themselves trying to shove their way out of the hotel during the initial chaos, confusion and panic, which cede to the monotony and anxiety of interminable quarantine in their isolated rooms.
This raw archive pays tribute to a life-affirming community, healthcare workers and countless loved ones lost. – Whang Yee Ling
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