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For this Friday Movie Night, first up is Silence (2016), a drama from the maestro himself, Martin Scorsese, concerning a pair of 17th-century Portuguese missionaries (played by Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver) who go to Japan, only to find that the shogunate has banned Christianity and ruthlessly snuffs it out everywhere it appears. Things just get worse from there. A lot of critical acclaim for this one, so let’s check it out.

After that is Hour of the Wolf (1968), one of the better-regarded films of one of the most revered directors of all time, Ingmar Bergman, and arguably his only horror film (you could make a case for Persona [1966].) It takes place at night on an isolated island, when a husband (Max von Sydow) tells his wife about his most painful memories, which begin to send him into throes of insanity and hallucination. Things get weird and creepy; what’s real? What’s not? And so on. Big influence on The Lighthouse (2019). Surprisingly, this is both the first Bergman, and the first Swedish film we will have watched on Hextube. A good place to start.

We’ll start at 8PM EST on Hextube, right here:

https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Silence: https://letterboxd.com/film/silence/
• Hour of the Wolf: https://letterboxd.com/film/hour-of-the-wolf/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Silence: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0490215/parentalguide?ref_=tt_stry_pg
• Hour of the Wolf: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/44641

CWs for Silence:

• Torture.
• Blood and gore.
• Cutting of flesh.
• Decapitation.
• Crucifixion.
• Drowning.
• Someone is burned alive.
• Catholicism.
• Nervous breakdowns.
• Drunkenness.

CWs for Hour of the Wolf:

• Child abuse.
• Dead animals.
• Cutting of flesh.
• Squashed head.
• Eye mutilation.
• Anxiety attacks.
• “Sexual content”. Seems pretty tame to me, though.

Links to movies:

• Silence: https://tankie.tube/w/29zqqtrk6ASkUgjN6Zgxkd
• Hour of the Wolf: https://tankie.tube/w/w8EuVP2eaASxCAzPxrYCEN