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Fields 3 Nov 3:38pm, 3 Nov 2024 11,772 posts	0 Fields I reckon Lee will get Winslet an Oscar nod as it’s their sort of film. So far today Gilda Take me in your arms (more Mexican noir, not as good as yesterday Blackmail (1929 Hitchcock with live piano)
JamieKai chameleon 3 Nov 4:57pm, 3 Nov 2024 19,485 posts	0 JamieKai chameleon Just watched Paddington 2 on BBC. Glorious
Raemondo 3 Nov 5:57pm, 3 Nov 2024 12,215 posts	0 Raemondo For a second I confused Gilda with Golda. I've only seen one, but I'm assuming they're very different films.
Son of a Pronator Man 3 Nov 6:40pm, 3 Nov 2024 9,225 posts	0 Son of a Pronator Man I saw The Heretic last night. Going to see Añora tonight. The Heretic is very good.
Fields 3 Nov 7:15pm, 3 Nov 2024 11,775 posts	0 Fields Just come out of Double Indemnity. That film is perfect. Have passed on the next option of either Key Largo or Scarlet Street. Seen them both, not a fan of the latter, I’d have watched the former but decided I needed a break. Last film of the festival is The Last Seduction.
Red Squirrel 3 Nov 7:42pm, 3 Nov 2024 24,650 posts	0 Red Squirrel Your festival sounds great, Fields. I like Double Indemnity and remember when I house-shared with 9 friends and we watched The Last Seduction many times as one of our house favourites.
Fields 3 Nov 8:05pm, 3 Nov 2024 11,777 posts	0 Fields It’s the best reason I can think of to spend a weekend in Weston!
Son of a Pronator Man 4 Nov 8:13am, 4 Nov 2024 9,226 posts	0 Son of a Pronator Man So I went to see Heretic.. The film is set in the present day, probably in the US, although the exact location does not matter much. Hugh Grant plays Mr. Reed, a middle-aged man (in a smart cardigan) who has expressed interest in the Mormon Church, and the local church has sent two young female missionaries to his house (Sister Barnes (Sophie Thatcher) and Sister Paxton (Chloe East)). They arrive at his house just as a storm is breaking and go inside, against their better judgment, partly because they are assured by him that his wife is at home, they are soaked and cold, and they also want to increase the number of conversions they have scored on the Church’s informal league table. Once inside, they realize that they are trapped and in danger. He forces them to listen to his half-baked views on monotheism, and subjects them to a terrifying and horrific ordeal, which he assures them that they will survive if their faith is strong enough. During the ordeal, Reed slashes Barnes’s throat and she collapses to the floor, bleeding heavily. Paxton presses on, through the labyrinth of Reed's home and its multitude of basements, each one a level of hell like Dante's Inferno, reaching the final stage. At this point, Reed reveals that his view is that the aim of religion is control. But what he doesn’t say is that it’s especially about male control over women, which is a striking omission, given that is what we see clearly in the film. Reed stabs Paxton after she has stabbed him and, as they both lie bleeding, he is struck on the head by Barnes, who has (improbably) raised herself up to strike the final blow after half an hour of film time on the floor, bleeding out. Paxton escapes and calls for help. Ironically, she survived (albeit badly injured) because her faith was stronger. Barnes argued with him, disputing his views about religion based on facts, but Paxton said she could not dispute what he said, only knowing in her heart that it was wrong. All the cast are excellent, especially Grant who, as ever, plays the bumbling and amiable type, but in this version with just a twist to make that type very threatening. I’m surprised the film hasn’t been more controversial, especially in the US, with its anti- religion message obviously unpalatable to the powerful religious-right. Most of the trailers were for horror films, a genre I don’t usually go to see (I did go and see Longlegs earlier this year) so not much I liked the look of. On the subject of things, I don’t want to see (again), I’m sick to death of the Sky Cinema/Idris Elba thing and also the LNER/dancing doll thing.
Fields 7 Nov 11:32pm, 7 Nov 2024 11,801 posts	0 Fields Bird a few days ago. Dreamy shots of places I know well. Quite intense in parts, the always interesting Franz Rogowski and a twist which you’ll either love or hate. I thought the scenes at the wedding at the end were perhaps idealised in Bailey’s mind as to my mind she lay dying in her mothers house, they felt tonally very different Trigger warning - contains Coldplay.
HappyG(rrr) 8 Nov 7:17am, 8 Nov 2024 51,326 posts	0 HappyG(rrr) Fields wrote:Trigger warning - contains Coldplay. Lol! G

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