Over the years the DVD has almost died! This means a change of merchandise for our friend Harry, who still discreetly does his thing on the beach, but with other stuff (like Valentines roses!) and that any bar can consider showing a rip-off film projected onto a sheet! We have a new entrant in TATWAS and they do much better than that! We know the owner and she has encouraged us to visit - both for films and live music, It is an outstanding venue for either. Newly opened this season with stunning decor. good food and well-trained staff it should do well, but is a little of the beaten track and not well-publicised! Our first evening was to see the Goa-Ts, with Irish guest set, and plenty of dancing. But it has shown films at least weekly since then and the sound and screen are great!
Meanwhile. El Diablo next door to our rooms picks all the right films, but suffers from intrusive noise and other tech problems, and Steak House shows a lot of films - including classics - but is tricky to reach, Rockit also shows films, but we have never been! So here is the summary matched to the Oscars which happened in our last few days:
Not bad for free and good food alongside!
The story of the showing of The Favourite is worth sharing:
We turned up at the appointed hour and there was a small crowd of people including a Brit couple eating. We ordered food and soon Simon addressed the audience by saying that someone had deleted the copy and we could choose to watch some other film or wait for a new download, which he optimistically said would take about twenty minutes! We all opted for the latter, so he set off the process on the laptop, which was right next to us, and he started to show YouTube comedy sketches to amuse us. His selection was not far off Greyrocks' list of favourites, but clearly not to everyone's taste and as the download speed reduced and the wait extended folk left until only five or so were left. This included a German-speaking regular, to whom Simon made an apology as he played the famous bit from Fawlty Towers! We kept asking between clips for a status report on the download, and it wasn't good news, but another sketch was played ,,,,The film eventually started around 100 minutes late, which meant tiredness, excessive wine and the growing noise from bars and street conspired to detract from the brilliance of the film, and Greyrocks will have to watch it again!
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