Frankenstein + The Nude Vampire. Nice one, Norris.

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Our MovieNight Hallowe’en special brought in a surprisingly large crowd… great to see some faces that had been missing for ages! The Blu-ray disc of Frankenstein was shiny and crisp, but there seem to have been a few alterations to the original. I don’t know it well enough, but Norris seemed to thing that was the case. Speaking of Norris (and speaking to Norris), thank you for suggesting the entire program this week! I was unfamiliar with the erotic, sometimes plotless work of director Jean Rollin, but The Nude Vampire was compelling viewing for the surprise part II of our double feature! The backup plan involved fading down the sound and fading up a spooky musical playlist, but folks stayed put, with their eyes on the screen. And, oh yeah… I wonder if Kubrick watched La vampire nue. Duh! Eyes Wide Shut!

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Klute. Moot?

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Our Friday MovieNight thriller sure scared everyone! Or was it something I said?

Seriously, though… I must say that I was rather surprised by the poor turnout for this excellent thriller. Every other Friday MovieNight has been packed. Was it Columbus Day weekend. Hmmm. Anyway, as usual, those of us who were here had a smashing time!

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Ida. I do.

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Polish cinema has traditionally been a bit of a hard sell with our MovieNight audience, but if we were to start counting with just the last two, we would be 2 for 2! Pawel Pawlikowski’s achingly beautiful Ida had the look and feel of classic from the sixties, as of course did the last Polish feature shown here: Knife in the Water, by Roman Polanski. But, whereas Knife in the Water had stark, high-contrast compositions, cinematographers Ryszard Lenczewski and Lukasz Zal painted Ida in shades of beautiful grey. Stunning and thought-provoking.

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We Are the Best! Plus Curried Apple Chutney and Gadzukes!

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Lukas Moodysson made us laugh and cringe at teenage angst once again with the raucous We Are the Best. We also got to wince at out of tune music. Go girls! Thank you to all who came out on the first rainy day of the MovieNight season!

And… we now have two “official” homemade MovieNight snacks from ‘teen Acres! The Curried Apple Chutney is back (although, we’ve had to buy the apples this year… it seems the trees were exhausted from delivering such bounty last year, and didn’t make a single apple) along with the latest: Gadzukes! Pickled zucchini pieces with a bit of a bite. Yum! Not going to run out of them anytime soon… next batch waiting to be made.

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Under the Skin. Quite.

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Creepy. Beautiful. Brilliant.

Were it not already claimed by one of the most seminal of science-fiction movies, Alien would be a very suitable alternate title for Under The Skin. Superficially speaking, Jonathan Glazer’s first film in almost a decade is an extraterrestrial invasion story, featuring an undercover succubus from beyond the stars. What’s truly alien about it, however, is the manner in which Glazer twists that stock premise into something radically, unnervingly new. He’s wrapped a singularly strange art film in the fleshy tissue of a genre picture. But the disguise runs no deeper than a logline, as the Kubrickian dread of the opening scene will make instantly clear. Walk in expecting Species and you’ll have your mind cleanly blown.

Excerpt of review by A.A. Dowd for the AV Club

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