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Give Them Wings. Film.

Post by theoriginalfatcat » Sun Jul 24, 2022 2:16 pm

I see on the official site that this film was shown at The Vue in Darlington on Saturday 16th.

Did anyone see it? If so, how was it?
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Post by bga » Sun Jul 24, 2022 3:24 pm

The article on the Club site says the Film "is released on all major platforms in the UK on 1st August." Not sure what this means, so where can we view it Amazon Prime, Netflix?

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Post by theoriginalfatcat » Sun Jul 24, 2022 4:11 pm

bga wrote:
Sun Jul 24, 2022 3:24 pm
The article on the Club site says the Film "is released on all major platforms in the UK on 1st August." Not sure what this means, so where can we view it Amazon Prime, Netflix?
I dunno, it’s not streaming now.

I’d like to see the film - the book is a good read and I’ve bumped into Flipper a few times over the years :thumbup:
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Re: Give Them Wings. Film.

Post by feethamslad » Mon Jul 25, 2022 9:45 am

Quite a positive 3* review in the Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/j ... compassion

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Post by spen666 » Mon Jul 25, 2022 9:49 am

feethamslad wrote:
Mon Jul 25, 2022 9:45 am
Quite a positive 3* review in the Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/j ... compassion
Thanks for that link.

Reading the review makes me want to see the film

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Post by DARLODAH » Mon Jul 25, 2022 4:14 pm

Where and when can we see this film?

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Re: Give Them Wings. Film.

Post by bga » Mon Jul 25, 2022 4:30 pm

DARLODAH wrote:
Mon Jul 25, 2022 4:14 pm
Where and when can we see this film?
"On all major platforms in the UK from the 1st of August"(see above) but I still don't know what this means other than certain cinemas!

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Post by al_quaker » Mon Jul 25, 2022 6:20 pm

https://bulldog-film.com/award-winning- ... ng-events/

'Available to buy/rent on Digital HD from 1st August', so at a guess I would say it would be available to purchase through things like Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Sky Store, etc

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Post by bga » Mon Jul 25, 2022 6:30 pm

al_quaker wrote:
Mon Jul 25, 2022 6:20 pm
https://bulldog-film.com/award-winning- ... ng-events/

'Available to buy/rent on Digital HD from 1st August', so at a guess I would say it would be available to purchase through things like Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Sky Store, etc
Thanks

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Post by MCFCDarlo3 » Mon Aug 01, 2022 8:21 pm

For anyone interested heres a couple of links to the film, hope they work ok.

Amazon
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Give.../dp/B0B ... ref=sr_1_1...

Microsoft
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/p/give- ... verviewtab
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Re: Give Them Wings. Film.

Post by Feethams 1965 » Tue Aug 02, 2022 8:12 am

It's on at the Station Cinema Richmond on Saturday and Sunday this weekend, and next Tuesday evening.

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Post by bga » Tue Aug 02, 2022 8:41 am

MCFCDarlo3 wrote:
Mon Aug 01, 2022 8:21 pm
For anyone interested heres a couple of links to the film, hope they work ok.

Amazon
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Give.../dp/B0B ... ref=sr_1_1...

Microsoft
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/p/give- ... verviewtab
£4.49 to rent on Amazon Prime, £9.99 to buy.

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Post by theoriginalfatcat » Sat Aug 06, 2022 9:48 am

I've been told it's on at Catterick.
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Post by Heaton out » Sat Aug 06, 2022 9:49 pm

Just watched it, decent film, very gritty but defo a much watch for all Darlo fans.

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Post by Struth! Ted is Ed » Tue Aug 09, 2022 12:30 pm

Poetic licence was hilarious


I particularly lmao at the there's the stadium moment
clearly the Riverside at Boro with the Tees beside then landing in Blackwell Meadows.

Radio commentary of Gary Coatworths last minute winner 300 miles away at Welling and a character says I'm off to the game now I ain't missing this .. I think he may have been late.

Darlo 30 years ago playing in 2 years agos Puma kit.

All the darlo houses with pvc windows 30 years ago

I hope it was meant to be a comedy
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Re: Give Them Wings. Film.

Post by loan_star » Tue Aug 09, 2022 3:38 pm

Struth! Ted is Ed wrote:
Tue Aug 09, 2022 12:30 pm
Poetic licence was hilarious


I particularly lmao at the there's the stadium moment
clearly the Riverside at Boro with the Tees beside then landing in Blackwell Meadows.

Radio commentary of Gary Coatworths last minute winner 300 miles away at Welling and a character says I'm off to the game now I ain't missing this .. I think he may have been late.

Darlo 30 years ago playing in 2 years agos Puma kit.

All the darlo houses with pvc windows 30 years ago

I hope it was meant to be a comedy
Artistic licence actually.
UPVC windows actually started being popular in the 80s so not totally unreasonable to see some in the film, unless you expect a film done with a limited budget to replace all the windows in view?
Its possible to pick faults even in the most expensive or most popular films made.
Sometimes its best to keep your thoughts to yourself.

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Re: Give Them Wings. Film.

Post by TKOA » Tue Aug 09, 2022 6:34 pm

Struth! Ted is Ed wrote:
Tue Aug 09, 2022 12:30 pm
Poetic licence was hilarious


I particularly lmao at the there's the stadium moment
clearly the Riverside at Boro with the Tees beside then landing in Blackwell Meadows.

Radio commentary of Gary Coatworths last minute winner 300 miles away at Welling and a character says I'm off to the game now I ain't missing this .. I think he may have been late.

Darlo 30 years ago playing in 2 years agos Puma kit.

All the darlo houses with pvc windows 30 years ago

I hope it was meant to be a comedy

Someone correct me if I’m wrong but I believe the budget was 100k so I’m not sure what you’re expecting. Maybe recreate Wellings football ground from 30 years ago? Maybe rebuild Feethams? Also the vast majority watching this film won’t know nor give a toss about Darlington wearing ‘the wrong kits’. It has won 2 independent film awards and has received excellent reviews.

This film isn’t a story about Darlington FC. It’s a story about a man overcoming his challenges who happens to be a massive Darlington fan. I thought it was excellent. Great performances all round but I must say considering she’s from London Katie Sheridan did a good attempt at a Darlington accent, it’s a particularly hard one to replicate.

By the way, does anyone know if the pub Paul and Jane were in was the Foresters at Coatham Mundeville? It looked very familiar!

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Re: Give Them Wings. Film.

Post by don'tbuythesun » Tue Aug 09, 2022 6:50 pm

Sniping is so easy when funding is limited. Skyfall was £150 million plus. Now that's a budget.

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Post by Feethams 1965 » Thu Aug 11, 2022 6:20 pm

"Gritty" is an apt description earlier in this thread (Heaton Out). I just had to watch it seeing I've been following the Quakers since 1965 and they used my old Dolomite car in the filming at Catterick. There's a reference in one scene to a seven nil home defeat in 1973 and I wondered if that was against Mansfield? We were going through a desperately bad patch and they did slaughter us 7-0 at Feethams round about then; unfortunately we were so bad I never got it out of my head.

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Post by banktopp » Thu Aug 11, 2022 6:32 pm

Feethams 1965 wrote:
Thu Aug 11, 2022 6:20 pm
"Gritty" is an apt description earlier in this thread (Heaton Out). I just had to watch it seeing I've been following the Quakers since 1965 and they used my old Dolomite car in the filming at Catterick. There's a reference in one scene to a seven nil home defeat in 1973 and I wondered if that was against Mansfield? We were going through a desperately bad patch and they did slaughter us 7-0 at Feethams round about then; unfortunately we were so bad I never got it out of my head.
Try Southport.
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Post by bga » Thu Aug 11, 2022 8:57 pm

banktopp wrote:
Thu Aug 11, 2022 6:32 pm
Feethams 1965 wrote:
Thu Aug 11, 2022 6:20 pm
"Gritty" is an apt description earlier in this thread (Heaton Out). I just had to watch it seeing I've been following the Quakers since 1965 and they used my old Dolomite car in the filming at Catterick. There's a reference in one scene to a seven nil home defeat in 1973 and I wondered if that was against Mansfield? We were going through a desperately bad patch and they did slaughter us 7-0 at Feethams round about then; unfortunately we were so bad I never got it out of my head.
Try Southport.
We can put it right next Tuesday.
That has to be the game when Phil Owers played in goal wasn't it? Did he not concede 7 in two consecutive matches or have I got that second stat totally wrong? Good goalkeeper I liked him.

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Post by banktopp » Fri Aug 12, 2022 7:28 am

bga wrote:
Thu Aug 11, 2022 8:57 pm
banktopp wrote:
Thu Aug 11, 2022 6:32 pm
Feethams 1965 wrote:
Thu Aug 11, 2022 6:20 pm
"Gritty" is an apt description earlier in this thread (Heaton Out). I just had to watch it seeing I've been following the Quakers since 1965 and they used my old Dolomite car in the filming at Catterick. There's a reference in one scene to a seven nil home defeat in 1973 and I wondered if that was against Mansfield? We were going through a desperately bad patch and they did slaughter us 7-0 at Feethams round about then; unfortunately we were so bad I never got it out of my head.
Try Southport.
We can put it right next Tuesday.
That has to be the game when Phil Owers played in goal wasn't it? Did he not concede 7 in two consecutive matches or have I got that second stat totally wrong? Good goalkeeper I liked him.
Afraid you are correct. Previous game just before xmas, Bradford City beat us 7-0.

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Post by don'tbuythesun » Fri Aug 12, 2022 8:04 am

Thankfully that's just before my Darlington watching started. If he was a "good goalkeeper" the team must have been terrible!!

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Post by EDJOHNS » Fri Aug 12, 2022 4:55 pm

banktopp wrote:
Fri Aug 12, 2022 7:28 am
bga wrote:
Thu Aug 11, 2022 8:57 pm
banktopp wrote:
Thu Aug 11, 2022 6:32 pm
Feethams 1965 wrote:
Thu Aug 11, 2022 6:20 pm
"Gritty" is an apt description earlier in this thread (Heaton Out). I just had to watch it seeing I've been following the Quakers since 1965 and they used my old Dolomite car in the filming at Catterick. There's a reference in one scene to a seven nil home defeat in 1973 and I wondered if that was against Mansfield? We were going through a desperately bad patch and they did slaughter us 7-0 at Feethams round about then; unfortunately we were so bad I never got it out of my head.
Try Southport.
We can put it right next Tuesday.
That has to be the game when Phil Owers played in goal wasn't it? Did he not concede 7 in two consecutive matches or have I got that second stat totally wrong? Good goalkeeper I liked him.
Afraid you are correct. Previous game just before xmas, Bradford City beat us 7-0.
Did we not also get done 5 at Chester around the same time as well?

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Post by comeondarlo » Mon Aug 15, 2022 12:12 pm

TKOA wrote:
Tue Aug 09, 2022 6:34 pm
Struth! Ted is Ed wrote:
Tue Aug 09, 2022 12:30 pm
Poetic licence was hilarious


I particularly lmao at the there's the stadium moment
clearly the Riverside at Boro with the Tees beside then landing in Blackwell Meadows.

Radio commentary of Gary Coatworths last minute winner 300 miles away at Welling and a character says I'm off to the game now I ain't missing this .. I think he may have been late.

Darlo 30 years ago playing in 2 years agos Puma kit.

All the darlo houses with pvc windows 30 years ago

I hope it was meant to be a comedy

Someone correct me if I’m wrong but I believe the budget was 100k so I’m not sure what you’re expecting. Maybe recreate Wellings football ground from 30 years ago? Maybe rebuild Feethams? Also the vast majority watching this film won’t know nor give a toss about Darlington wearing ‘the wrong kits’. It has won 2 independent film awards and has received excellent reviews.

This film isn’t a story about Darlington FC. It’s a story about a man overcoming his challenges who happens to be a massive Darlington fan. I thought it was excellent. Great performances all round but I must say considering she’s from London Katie Sheridan did a good attempt at a Darlington accent, it’s a particularly hard one to replicate.

By the way, does anyone know if the pub Paul and Jane were in was the Foresters at Coatham Mundeville? It looked very familiar!
“Great performances all round”

Does that include Toyah’s!
I’m sorry but she ain’t an actress.

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Post by theoriginalfatcat » Mon Aug 15, 2022 1:00 pm

comeondarlo wrote:
Mon Aug 15, 2022 12:12 pm
“Great performances all round”

Does that include Toyah’s!
I’m sorry but she ain’t an actress.
Hmmm - according to my memory of the 80's, she ain't no singer either. :D
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don'tbuythesun wrote:
Fri Aug 12, 2022 8:04 am
Thankfully that's just before my Darlington watching started. If he was a "good goalkeeper" the team must have been terrible!!
Yes I remember the Southport game. Fortunately it was a foggy day and some of the game was obscured in the mist. We kept hoping the fog would get worse and the ref might abandon the game.
Phil Owers was just a young lad of 17 or 18, a promising young keeper from Shildon who was making his debut. I think we had been tanked 7-0 the previous game at Bradford and I assume that the first choice keeper had been dropped. I think that was a player called Ernie Adams.

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Post by 50 years » Mon Aug 15, 2022 2:11 pm

It was Adam that was goalkeeper, he was very poor in a poor team, young owers turned into a far better keeper, it was the same time as the frost programme on Darlo

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Post by TKOA » Mon Aug 15, 2022 4:09 pm

comeondarlo wrote:
Mon Aug 15, 2022 12:12 pm
TKOA wrote:
Tue Aug 09, 2022 6:34 pm
Struth! Ted is Ed wrote:
Tue Aug 09, 2022 12:30 pm
Poetic licence was hilarious


I particularly lmao at the there's the stadium moment
clearly the Riverside at Boro with the Tees beside then landing in Blackwell Meadows.

Radio commentary of Gary Coatworths last minute winner 300 miles away at Welling and a character says I'm off to the game now I ain't missing this .. I think he may have been late.

Darlo 30 years ago playing in 2 years agos Puma kit.

All the darlo houses with pvc windows 30 years ago

I hope it was meant to be a comedy

Someone correct me if I’m wrong but I believe the budget was 100k so I’m not sure what you’re expecting. Maybe recreate Wellings football ground from 30 years ago? Maybe rebuild Feethams? Also the vast majority watching this film won’t know nor give a toss about Darlington wearing ‘the wrong kits’. It has won 2 independent film awards and has received excellent reviews.

This film isn’t a story about Darlington FC. It’s a story about a man overcoming his challenges who happens to be a massive Darlington fan. I thought it was excellent. Great performances all round but I must say considering she’s from London Katie Sheridan did a good attempt at a Darlington accent, it’s a particularly hard one to replicate.

By the way, does anyone know if the pub Paul and Jane were in was the Foresters at Coatham Mundeville? It looked very familiar!
“Great performances all round”

Does that include Toyah’s!
I’m sorry but she ain’t an actress.
She’s performed in plays at the West End and The Royal Exchange as well as many other theatres but aye….she ain’t an actress.

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