The Room (Wiseau, 2003): Prince Charles Cinema, 12.15pm, 3pm & 5.45pm
Move aside The Sound of Music and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The
Room is the modern-day Plan 9 From Outer Space and a movie so awful it
now has a cult following, a following so large that the Prince Charles
has nine screenings planned over the weekend - and most of them are
sold out. If you want some background to the film it's all here in a fine piece which appeared in the Telegraph in 2009. If you want a flavour of the movie here is an extract.
The Prince Charles have regular screenings of The Room but the
cause of all the excitement this time is that the director, Tommy
Wiseau, is in town and will be delivering live intro and be around for
a Q&A after every screening. You can get all the details here via the cinema website.
Chicago Reader review:
'Written, produced, and directed by Tommy Wiseau, this inept 2003 melodrama has become a Rocky Horror-style
cult favorite in Los Angeles and other cities. Wiseau stars as an
eerily placid and good-natured banker whose live-in girlfriend is
secretly getting it on with his best friend, though the filmmaker often
strikes out in different directions, only to bump into the wall and come
back. As someone who's watched more bad movies than you can imagine,
I'm mostly immune to the so-bad-it's-good aesthetic, though I can see
how, viewed in a theater at midnight after a few drinks, this might
conjure up its own hilariously demented reality. Poignantly, Wiseau has
now positioned the movie as a "black comedy."
JR Jones
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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