New Meetup: Bookclub Cinema Club Halloween Movie - Don't Look Now
| From: | Tony C |
| Sent on: | Saturday, October 9, 2010, 9:44 AM |
Announcing a new Meetup for The Birmingham Book Club and Popular Culture Meetup Group!
What: Bookclub Cinema Club Halloween Movie - Don't Look Now
When: Tuesday, October 26,[masked]:00 PM
Where: The Jeckyll and Hyde
28 Steel House Lane Birmingham City Centre
Birmingham
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See the review and trailer of this Month's film below
On the last Tuesday of every month we have exclusive use of The Jeckyll and Hyde Gin Parlour (with its big screen and projector). We will be showing the best of independent, non-mainstream and foreign language films.
We will meet for drinks in the bar from about 7pm for a 7.30 start. The Film will be about 2 hours with a 20 minute intermission. We will aim to finish and retire to the bar at around 10pm.
The Jeckyll and Hyde is a great venue and is run by the same people as our regular Bookclub venue The Victoria. It is a short walk from Colmore Row and Snow Hill Station.
Meet us in the bar (ground floor) from 7pm or come upstairs to the Gin Parlour at 7.30 - new members ask the bar staff if you are lost.
This month's film is Don't look now
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Film review
Architectural restoration expert John Baxter (Donald Sutherland) and his wife Laura (Julie Christie), grieving over the sudden drowning of their daughter Christine (Sharon Williams), take a working holiday in Venice.
While John busies himself with his work, Christine meets up with middle-aged sisters Heather (Hilary Mason) and Wendy (Clelia Matani). Although blind, Heather claims to 'see' Christine. Furthermore, Heather claims that Christine is trying to warn the Baxters. Certainly John's work manhandling gargoyles and climbing shaky scaffolds isn't entirely danger-free. Also, the sense of foreboding is masterfully cranked-up by the evidence of a mysterious killer working in the city and by the disorientation of premonition.
Though Laura finds solace in Heather's claims, John is sceptical. He is unnerved by a wholly different experience: fleeting sightings of a small figure dressed in a red coat, much like Christine's.
Roeg's film is adapted from a short story by Daphne Du Maurier. In Du Maurier's hands, the story was a conventional, if modern, tale of the supernatural with a neat final twist. Under the direction of Roeg, it becomes a disjointed, multi-layered, totally cinematic masterpiece, each frame carefully composed, rich with ambiguity and visual themes (the recurrence of the colour red in particular).
Many of the subtle, jarring thrills come in the editing, which renders the notion of foresight explicit but still mysterious. Events from the future appear in the present in impressionistic, enigmatic and, crucially, misinterpreted flashes. But the actors are not lost or ignored in this technically complex chiller.
Show less of this review
Verdict
The performances are uniformly excellent, the ending pricks an intense fear in the audience. Perhaps the only iffy factor in the whole film is Sutherland's bouffant hairpiece.
RSVP to this Meetup:
http://www.meetup.com/bookclub-592/calendar/15053040/
What: Bookclub Cinema Club Halloween Movie - Don't Look Now
When: Tuesday, October 26,[masked]:00 PM
Where: The Jeckyll and Hyde
28 Steel House Lane Birmingham City Centre
Birmingham
[masked]
See the review and trailer of this Month's film below
On the last Tuesday of every month we have exclusive use of The Jeckyll and Hyde Gin Parlour (with its big screen and projector). We will be showing the best of independent, non-mainstream and foreign language films.
We will meet for drinks in the bar from about 7pm for a 7.30 start. The Film will be about 2 hours with a 20 minute intermission. We will aim to finish and retire to the bar at around 10pm.
The Jeckyll and Hyde is a great venue and is run by the same people as our regular Bookclub venue The Victoria. It is a short walk from Colmore Row and Snow Hill Station.
Meet us in the bar (ground floor) from 7pm or come upstairs to the Gin Parlour at 7.30 - new members ask the bar staff if you are lost.
This month's film is Don't look now
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Film review
Architectural restoration expert John Baxter (Donald Sutherland) and his wife Laura (Julie Christie), grieving over the sudden drowning of their daughter Christine (Sharon Williams), take a working holiday in Venice.
While John busies himself with his work, Christine meets up with middle-aged sisters Heather (Hilary Mason) and Wendy (Clelia Matani). Although blind, Heather claims to 'see' Christine. Furthermore, Heather claims that Christine is trying to warn the Baxters. Certainly John's work manhandling gargoyles and climbing shaky scaffolds isn't entirely danger-free. Also, the sense of foreboding is masterfully cranked-up by the evidence of a mysterious killer working in the city and by the disorientation of premonition.
Though Laura finds solace in Heather's claims, John is sceptical. He is unnerved by a wholly different experience: fleeting sightings of a small figure dressed in a red coat, much like Christine's.
Roeg's film is adapted from a short story by Daphne Du Maurier. In Du Maurier's hands, the story was a conventional, if modern, tale of the supernatural with a neat final twist. Under the direction of Roeg, it becomes a disjointed, multi-layered, totally cinematic masterpiece, each frame carefully composed, rich with ambiguity and visual themes (the recurrence of the colour red in particular).
Many of the subtle, jarring thrills come in the editing, which renders the notion of foresight explicit but still mysterious. Events from the future appear in the present in impressionistic, enigmatic and, crucially, misinterpreted flashes. But the actors are not lost or ignored in this technically complex chiller.
Show less of this review
Verdict
The performances are uniformly excellent, the ending pricks an intense fear in the audience. Perhaps the only iffy factor in the whole film is Sutherland's bouffant hairpiece.
RSVP to this Meetup:
http://www.meetup.com/bookclub-592/calendar/15053040/
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