Museum Hours

So another London Film Festival is over. Even if this one didn't seem a vintage edition, for me at least, the experience was as enjoyable as ever and there were still some spectacularly good films on offer. Here's what I made of the ones I saw through the medium of immediate tweets with the usual scoring out of 10 .... Score 9 The Keeping Room   #TheKeepingRoom #LFF Wow! Incredibly powerful, genre bending Civil War feminist revenge western. Going to be hearing distant hooves for days — Kevin Lloyd (@KevinELloyd) October 12, 2014 Far From Men Slightly star struck at the profound, tense and beautiful #FarFromMen #LFF a quite wonderful and humane film pic.twitter.com/kir2SYd7cV — Kevin Lloyd (@KevinELloyd) October 18, 2014 Score 8 The Falling   Repression, neuroses and hysteria abound to great effect in #thefalling #LFF with a completely and infectiously enthused director — Kevin Lloyd (@KevinELloyd) October 11, 2014 If I ever open a cafe it

I'm not sure I could answer the question posed in the title to this blog any better having seen this film. Indeed I suspect it is one of those questions about which only someone on their third joint and attending the kind of conference at which this film is set would even muse. However, anyone prepared to give up 90 minutes of their time should be well rewarded and gently amused by this brilliantly conceived and realised piece - a saline drip of droll humour on very slow release. The development in the early 1980s of chess programmes capable of competing against real people is used as a starting point for all sorts amusing insights and hallucinations. Indeed the film is as much concerned with hallucinations as anything else. A number of the characters see these as having almost permanent effects and there is a bravura sequence involving a machine increasingly seeming to question the programmer rather than the other way round which finishes with a glimpse of an embryo 'i