Yep

That's tonight's viewing sorted then, cheers fellas!

Rewatched Bergman's The Seventh Seal.

To say that a film about a Knight and his Squire returning from the Crusades to a plague ridden land who is trying to hold off the Angel of Death by diverting him playing Chess has some moments of levity comes as a surprise to me.

This is the director's most famous work with its iconic opening. Max Von Sydow plays the lead and looks every bit the part - he's an icon himself.

It's quite gloomy and it portrays a bleak outlook as the film wrestles with faith and its requirements but it remains engaging. Not one to chill out with. It's a challenging watch as it demands consideration. But it is watchable and doesn't outstay its welcome at 90-odd minutes. I'd maybe not start with this one if looking to explore Bergman but it should be watched at some point.

I watched it for the first time a couple of years ago and really enjoyed it. It is more palatable to modern tastes than I expected.

I absolutely love it. Still remember it in the cinema. Watched it half a dozen times since and it gets better with rewatching.

Spoilers just in case

Unlikely wrote:

Spoiler:

Another child? There was only one.

Amazing movie. Hell of a thing to make a movie like that and still have it be a cinema hit.

I don't think it did, it also had the luxury of being based on a very good short story too.

I think that's my least favourite of his, but it's ok.

Unlikely wrote:

Riding the Denis wave after Arrival I watched Prisoners today.  That is not a fun film.  Performances aside, and most of the principles are great, it's 2.5 hours of leaden skies and leaden people doing things they shouldn't do.

Prisoners is brutal

davyK wrote:

I think Arrival suffered from the broo-hah Interstellar got.  Arrival's a great one and is one for rewatching.

I thought Interstellar was going to be brilliant because science, and Arrival a bit rubbish because not science. Turned out Arrival was way better (and way braver) on the science stuff.

I felt like there was much more to the science stuff in Interstellar than Arrival, although that may be because I’d been teaching English for a while when I saw it so found the linguistic stuff in Arrival to be pretty basic, and there wasn’t a great deal more to the science in it than that. I found it much more interesting exploring time dilation in Interstellar.

And tbf there is way much more actual science stuff in Interstellar, so fair play there. Arrival was much braver in the future of maybe science, so fair play there too.

Watched The Master at the weekend, can’t think of any likeable characters throughout the entire film, will not watch again.