The Ultimare Wire Weekender
Posted by Fraser Lewry on 21 August 2008 - 6:15pm.
I'm sorely tempted by this, even though Season 5 should be with me this week, and I plan to have watched it all by the end of the bank holiday weekend: The Curzon Cinema in London are showing the whole of the series over the weekend of 20-21 September.
Apart from all the big-screen action, the £60 entrance fee (£50 if you're a member) gets you a a copy of the book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by Wire creator David Simon, plus Simon, actor Dominic West (Officer McNulty, as you should all know by now), Charlie Brooker (tbc) and special guests in conversation. To round it all off, there's informal drinks and cheap croissants.
It'll beat staying in for The X Factor, that's for sure.
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Series 5 (no spoilers, don't worry)
Enjoy, Fraser - a friend burned me a disc a month ago or so and I had a similar, immensely satisfying binge. I'd forgotten how much better it is when you watch about 3 episodes a day.
I read that
wrongly as the whole series - as in series 1-5 - and thought that would be one heck of a weekend. I did attempt to attend a Seinfeld weekend once, with every episode being shown back to back, but I soon realised that that was a simple way to ruin something you love...
Sounds like the perfect
Sounds like the perfect weekend. I've had this thought for a while, that I'd pay good money to watch my favourite TV shows at the cinema, almost like the old cinema serials, maybe a couple of episodes at a time. Wonder if there's any mileage in this idea?
The Sopranos
on the big screen would be absolutely brilliant.
Surely there's a market for stuff like this. Anyone from Screen on the Green listening
Some time in the early 1990s
The Prince Charles cinema showed all of Twin Peaks over a weekend. I didn't go, however I did go and see the entire Godfather trilogy at the same cinema one Sunday in 1992.
Peaks
Around the same time I watched all of Twin Peaks in one go, but at home. It took about twenty hours, as far as I can remember, and I restricted myself to eating only when Agent Cooper did, eating what he ate. Plenty of coffee, plenty of doughnuts, plenty of apple pie.
I was on the dole at the time.