OT:Our Fathers on Showtime

[victoriawinters]

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.   

[Midnite]

View trailer, etc.

Mentioned here before, but in the Cast list:  Music Composed and Conducted by ... BOB COBERT

[CyrusL]

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 

[victoriawinters]

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.   The reviews have been really favorable.

[Gothick]

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.

[victoriawinters]

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 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

[Midnite]

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.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

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.