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POSTED BY: WhoIsRiver
UPDATED: Friday, July 22, 2005 10:29
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I'm a member of staff at one particular hotel chain and can (hopefully) get staff discount on a twin room. I've checked, and they have rooms available, and it would be £90 for two nights (I don't want to book a room til I've got tickets booked, just in case! *g*) so I'd be looking for someone to share - in effect, paying for a night each.
If I get my staff discount, it'll probably work out at around £50 for two nights.
Edit: When I say £90, I mean for the room, not per person. So £45 each. £25 each if I get the discount. The issue with the discount is, they only have a certain number set aside, and sometimes in the busier months they don't allow it at all.
Edit again: Gorram it, my employers are trying to bankrupt me - they meant £90 per night! *dies* So back to the drawing board - I also will be looking for somewhere to stay :D
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You lucky Scots! My two favorite things, Serenity and Scotland together. Shiny!
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damn...have to make a plan!
"Two by two, hands of blue..." River Tam
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Does anyone one else find this interesting that they are having the World Premiere in Scottland at a film festival? Showing it twice?
I'm not sure what it means....anyone else?
It is interesting they are having the world premiere in Scotland (one 't' there) - but only from my personal point of view that it is so close to me that attending is easy - assuming I can get a ticket!
The Edinburgh Film Festival is huge, and part of the still huger Edinburgh Festival, where the population of the city pretty much doubles for one month. It is a crazy time, and no fun to be a local (except from the increase in jobs). One year, when I still lived there, I was late almost every day for work. I just gave up the day a troop of penguins crossed the road in slow motion in front of the bus. That's people dressed as penguins. They close the high street completely, and everything is just chaos and madness. An inordinate amount of English university students who want to be actors and Americans who want to go to the theatre drink all the bars dry and talk in incredibly loud and heavily accented voices and kiss all the time.
The film festival is one of the best bits. They often show films two or three times if demand is high. Last year, I saw a screening (which was the second or third due to demand) of the Metallica film 'Some Kind of Monster' - it was one of the weirdest queues for a film I've ever seen, and so funny.
Other big previews are often held too - one year Rushmore was the big one. There's always a lot of good European stuff too - the programme is usually excellent, often a bit quirky. Seems like the perfect place for 'Serenity'...
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Well, thank you. I'm beginning to understand why they are doing it. I'm also curious about the documentary. Be sure to give us a full report.
Sorry, for spelling your country with two "T". Won't happen again!
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Sorry for the spelling checker!
Partly obsessiveness (is that spelt right?) and partly touchiness...
Here's another link, to a bio one of the best Scottish film reviewers (in my opinion, anyway) - check out what she has to say about the Edinburgh film festival:
http://scotland.ideasfactory.com/writing/features/feature3.html
She also has some interesting comments about working in Scotland. If you can find any of her film reviews online (try through the Glasgow Herald newspaper), they are usually quite good - she did a fantastic one recently panning Vera Drake.
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Just recieved this from the cantstopthesignal.co.uk mailing list:
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[Serenity UK Screenings] Edinburgh Film Festival screening
Two, in fact, of the finished film. Joss at the first screening. In August.
Info and tickets: http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/movies/show/serenity/
Q&A with Joss.
Also, a documentary on Joss Whedon is screening.
Tickets go on sale Monday morning.
Screenings around the UK will follow shortly after.
Kev
So it looks good for other screenings. Note that edfilmfest.org.uk says tickets go on sale Friday and not Monday as it says in the email.
I'm now considering having a holiday in Scotland around the showings - assuming I can get tickets before the sell out.
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Does anyone know anything about the documentary he is going to be showing? Is this the one about the fans?
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Great Stuff,
I`ve secured a couple of days off, although I will be gutted if I can`t get tickets.
Thinking of driving up there but may just take a slow train.
I hope that everybody will be sinsible about purchasing tickets and not have the eBay debarcle happen in the UK.
If you get tickets and find you can not go, offer them up at the list price and not go through eBay - be a good Browncoat & not a profiteer (even if you only want to sell one ticket, it`s still profiteering off others)
Darin (Zol.)
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