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Title: OT:Our Fathers on Showtime
Post by: victoriawinters on April 19, 2005, 04:07:43 AM
It's finally been announced that Our Fathers will be shown on Showtime at the following dates and times (looks like Eastern Time on their schedule):

May 21       8:00 PM       
May 21       10:15 PM       
May 21       12:30 AM       
May 25       8:00 PM       
May 26       9:00 PM

Please check your local listings to know when it will be shown in your area.  For you audiophiles, it will be in HDTV and 5:1 aspect.  Too bad many of us don't get this channel including me.  Hopefully, they will release this on DVD as they currently do their TV series and other original movies.   
Title: Re: OT:Our Fathers on Showtime
Post by: Midnite on May 19, 2005, 02:47:39 AM
View trailer, etc. (http://www.sho.com/site/schedules/product_page.do?episodeid=123687&seriesid=0&include=00main.inc)

Mentioned here before, but in the Cast list:  Music Composed and Conducted by ... BOB COBERT
Title: Re: OT:Our Fathers on Showtime
Post by: CyrusL on May 19, 2005, 03:01:04 PM
in the Cast list:  Music Composed and Conducted by ... BOB COBERT
  Ah!. I knew Dan like most director's tend to work with people he has built a relationship with, and I didn't see any names in the cast I knew from other Curtis productions, although many are certainly well known actors. Now that you state Bob Cobert is doing the music, I KNOW its a Dan Curtis Production.

Michael  ;)
Title: Re: OT:Our Fathers on Showtime
Post by: victoriawinters on May 19, 2005, 05:20:54 PM
Does anyone have Showtime that can record this for us???  I just hope to be able to see it on DVD or something.  Otherwise, I will miss it. [cryb] [cryg]  The reviews have been really favorable.
Title: Re: OT:Our Fathers on Showtime
Post by: Gothick on May 19, 2005, 07:02:41 PM
So... we know there will be a scene where a sweaty-palmed priest requests a choir-boy to come with him to the vestry... the door shuts into a tight camera close-up, the screen goes dark and the music goes goes ... bum bum BUMMMMM!!

please do not think I am making light of the situation this movie documents, btw.  THAT is the sort of thing I find horrifying.  particularly considering that the damage done to the victims often can never be fully healed, even with years of therapy.

G.
Title: Re: OT:Our Fathers on Showtime
Post by: victoriawinters on May 20, 2005, 05:48:52 AM
The most heinous act of all is the cover-up by Church officials.  I believe this cover up is the focus of most of the movie and not the actual scenes of abuse.

I believe this article (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/reviews/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000927906) states it all.  A huge thata boy for both screenwriter and director with a note that the typical Hollywood hype is non-existent in this movie.

luv, victoriawinters
Title: Re: OT:Our Fathers on Showtime
Post by: Midnite on May 22, 2005, 06:06:31 PM
Oops, didn't notice til I saw the broadcast credits that it's co-produced by Barbara Steele.

Some terrific performances and wonderful moments, but I would have preferred seeing a movie about Ted Danson's character (got a kick out of his slipping into Becker mode), or Daniel Baldwin's, Ellen Burstyn's, Brian Dennehy's, or Chris Bauer's... but "OF" focused on so many characters and events that I can't say I learned more about any one of them than I gleaned from reading news reports about the scandal while it was happening.

Cardinal Law, seen as one-dimensional, was the worst of all the portrayals.

Gothick was pretty close to the mark-- the flashback scenes to the abuse with Cobert's music and Curtis' trademark camera angles didn't help the movie at all; it felt more like watching DS, which gave them an unreal quality.
Title: Re: OT:Our Fathers on Showtime
Post by: Mysterious Benefactor on May 22, 2005, 06:11:48 PM
Oops, didn't notice til I saw the broadcast credits that it's co-produced by Barbara Steele.

It's nice to know that they're still working together.  :)