Welcome to the September 2019 Cinematic Meeting!
This month we had a screening of the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival Best of 2018 Collection. The 2018 festival had some outstanding films, and the 2018 Collection is excellent.
Wine:
- Canada Red, 2017. Konzelmann Estate Winery. Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Zweigelt-Cabernet Sauvignon blend.
- Limited Edition Red, 2015. La Cuvée Mythique. Languedoc-Roussillon, France, Red blend.
- Lumina, 2018. Ruffino. Delle Venezie, Italy, Pino Grigio.
If you’ve never been to the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival in Portland, you should really consider going. It’s held at the Hollywood Theater, which is every bit as Spooky on the inside as the outside would suggest. The Festival is held every year in early October, so you can still go to the 2019 Festival!
Films included on this collection (and hence our screening):
– The Music of John Low (dir. by Marko Kattilakoski, Sweden)
– The House of the Seven Gables (dir. by Ben Wickey, US)
– Irreparable (dir. by Andrew Gleason & Thomas Nicol, US)
– The Strange House in the Mist (dir. by Guilherme Daniel, Portugal)
– Young Liars (dir. by Adam Christy, US)
– Echoes in the Ice (dir. by BJ Verot, Canada)
– The Final Nights of E. Zann (dir. by Gurleen Rai, US)
– Just After Midnight (dir. by Jean-Raymond Garcia & Anne-Marie Puga, France)
The Hollywood Theater, Portland, OR
The films don’t run in the order listed, which in my opinion was a good choice. “Echoes in the Ice” runs early in the lineup to set the tone: a salvage team drives up to some sort of abandoned outpost in what looks like Antarctica and discovers both the record of and the cause itself of the abandonment. It had a good “derelict horror” feel to it. The Collection closes with “The Strange House in the Mist” and “The Music of John Low,” which were two of my favorites from the festival last year. I’m glad they made the Collection, and I thought keeping the two films for last gave the Collection a feeling of buildup and crescendo.
Not much analysis to make this time, but I wanted to post a record of our activities.
As a preview to what we’re looking to investigate in the next few months, we’ll be looking at Folk Horror vs. Folklore. They are clearly connected, but are they the same? How different are they? Stay tuned.
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