Then Playing — The Innocents; Marshall; Things to Come

June 16, 2020June 17, 2020 Dan Seeger

The Innocents (Jack Clayton, 1961). A horror movie that favors spooky atmosphere over jolting shocks, The Innocents is adapted from the Henry James novella The Turn of the Screw. Miss Giddens (Deborah Kerr) takes a position as a governess at … Continue reading Then Playing — The Innocents; Marshall; Things to Come

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Playing Catch-Up — Hagazussa; The Whip Hand; Gloria Bell

October 23, 2019 Dan Seeger

Hagazussa (Lukas Feigelfeld, 2019). An oily stew of a movie that has some aromas familiar from Robert Eggers’s The Witch, this German horror film is set in the verdant, unforgiving mountain in the fifteenth century. An odd, withdrawn woman named Albrun (Aleksandra Cwen) … Continue reading Playing Catch-Up — Hagazussa; The Whip Hand; Gloria Bell

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Then Playing — The Innocents; Marshall; Things to Come

Playing Catch-Up — Hagazussa; The Whip Hand; Gloria Bell