…not quite predawn this morning (though it felt like it) for the London Film Festival press screening of Gravity. (In Leicester Square.)
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If it’s before noon it’s pre-dawn for a pro critic. These publicists have unreasonable expectations.
This pic was taken around 8:20am. Film was scheduled to start at 9am, and as you can see, I was hardly the first one there.
This is a godawful early hour for me. Many press screenings in London start at 10:30am, and that’s fine. It means, at a minimum, that you miss rush hour on the tube.