New documentary about Roger Moore - FROM ROGER MOORE WITH LOVE - in cinemas 13 & 15th Dec
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There's a great new documentary about Roger Moore coming to UK cinemas (Picturehouse Cinemas and Everyman Cinemas). Very limited screenings - currently just 15th & 18th December - but well worth watching if there's a screening near you!!
List of screenings & more info about the film is here:
www.dartmouthfilms.com/from-roger-moore-with-love
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And showing in the big spot on Christmas Day on BBC Two - congrats!
I might prefer to catch this one at the cinema, you don't get to see Rog on the big screen that often.
Roger Moore 1927-2017
Got my ticket for the Kings Cross Everyman on 15/12. Includes a Q&A.
It's definitely worth seeing it on the big screen if you can, and the cinema showings also include and exclusive recorded director Q&A giving insights into the making of the film.
Check out the trailer here:
From Roger Moore With Love (2024) | Official Trailer
I've got a £10 ticket offer for all Picturehouse cinema screenings - enter the code PRO10000002066512 in the Voucher/CEA box on the Picturehouse app or website once you have selected the show you want to attend and a £10 ticket will appear in your cart. You can only use the code once per transaction, so if you'd like to book more than one ticket it'll need to be in separate transactions. Book at www.picturehouses.com
No spoilers.
This is an independent review.
I saw this at the Kings Cross Everyman this afternoon and thoroughly enjoyed it. It's as good as this kind of film gets, and an essential for Bond fans.
The archive material is rich and varied, including clips, location footage, contemporary TV interviews and never-before-seen, star-studded home videos. There's fascinating material from early in Moore's career, insights into his four marriages and domestic life, some coverage of his charity work in his later years and, of course, interviews and reflections with Bond luminaries and co-stars as well as friends and family. A strength of the film is that it has a coherent story to tell.
No spoilers (!): director Jack Cocker opts for a distinctive narratorial device. At first, while recognising the novelty of this in terms of concept and style, I wasn't too sure about the choice; but it grew on me as the film went on and overall I think it's apt and works well.
For anyone planning to watch this on its broadcast on Christmas Day: enjoy! I guess it fills a gap left by what used to be, in the 70s and 80s, the 'event' broadcast of a Bond film on ITV after the Queen's Speech - though this one is on BBC2 in the evening, a celebration of a bygone era as well as Moore himself. There's substance to the film, so if it ends up, later, on iPlayer be sure to catch it there, too, when not lightheaded on mulled wine!
This afternoon's screening included a heartening, pre-filmed Q&A with the director. If the film makes a DVD release, it would be lovely to see this interview included as an Extra, together with any remarkable archive footage that didn't make the cut.
Thanks for the review @Shady Tree I'll definitely be catching up with this on iPlayer 😀
Me too!
Finally caught up with this; lovely programme, which it couldn't help but be really because he just seemed to be such a lovely man.
I liked the glimpses of his film star life in the 80s too - makes me feel what I always kind of suspected about his Bond films; that if you take away the guns and spying bits, his life actually wasn't all that different to what they showed- swanning about the globe between luxurious hotels, ski slopes and Chateaus! You even saw him in a couple of clips there conspicuously wearing some Bond outfits he'd clearly pilfered from the sets!
So nice seeing all of those people turning out just to say how much they liked him though, like Walken saying he doesn't usually do this sort of thing but he just liked Roger so much that he was doing it for him. Also: Joan Collins and John Glen in this looking amazing considering they're both over 90.
I thought Barbara Broccoli said something very astute in this too: that people watch movie stars and think they're not good actors because they have so much charisma that they think they're just being themselves. Roger was a very skilled screen performer.
I wonder RogerMooreDoc, are there any plans for a physical release? Or perhaps a longer cut? That would be nice.
I watched this and there is a few things i'd like to say about it. Most of what is said, is mentioned in My Word Is My Bond.
I thought some things were best kept private. The love letter to Doorn Van Steyn being read out, was unnecessary.
I thought Steve Coogan doing Roger's voice all thecway through,was strange. It was as if Roger was still alive. Would've been better if he spoke normally and thrown in the odd impression.
" I don't listen to hip hop!"
Caught this last night. Very enjoyable, though I agree with @hehadlotsofguts above that we didn't need to hear the love letter.
We watched this last night - excellent viewing.
I was going to include this review in the 'Last Film Seen...' thread, but remembered we had a thread on it already.
FROM ROGER MOORE WITH LOVE (2024)
An BBC Arena documentary given cinema previews. If you’ve read Moore’s biography, there will be few surprises to this documentary that skims the surface of Sir Roger’s life and career. Very interesting in a skimming the surface style. Steve Coogan provides a narrative impersonation of the now dead actor and the director occasionally shifts to the comedian in the sound booth. We could do without that. The usual good-natured and generous platitudes abound. Nice home movie footage. It was okay, but I am not going to rave about it. Others with a deeper interest in all-things James Bond will offer better, more nuanced assessments of the documentary than my skim the surface effort and I suggest you seek them out.
Now you can see the full documentary on YT.
https://youtu.be/LMNq1N6muI0
Calvin Dyson's thoughts on this film.
I’m embarrassed to say it’s this is still on my ‘to watch’ list 🤗
One of Calvin's better efforts. I too think more should have been made of Moore in The Man Who Haunted Himself. And more of his genuine acting ability. The man himself may have put himslef down, but do documentary makers ahve to follow his line?
This no longer works. Anyone have a new link?
The Blu Ray is released soon.