I remember watching it on the tiny black and white portable in my bedroom as I shivered under the duvet, and not just from the winter cold. dvd (uk): bfi. Released 28 October.©2020 British Film Institute. Hiss is not an issue, and the life-like, mostly domestic, ambiance comes over with cinematic fidelity. Released 18 November.Based on a short story by Sheridan Le Fanu, Schalcken the Painter was originally shown in the Omnibus strand on BBC 2 during Christmas 1979. Released 18 November.This superb box set brings together all 12 of the celebrated BBC ghost stories.A learned professor (Robert Powell) tells five terrifying tales. By the end, he has become a mercenary who sells out his art to take commissions of sentimental subjects.I suspect 17th-century Dutch domestic interiors have never been shot with such fidelity to the work of Vermeer, de Hooch, and Dou as they are in this film, while its sinister black velvet darkness owes to Rembrandt and Schalcken himself.Interviewed for a ‘making of’ documentary on the BFI’s new Dual Format (DVD/Blu-ray) edition, the lighting cameraman John Hooper describes how he and the designer Anna Ridley replicated these painters’ still spaces with their magical depth of field. Dialog is also crystal clear.Due to the main attraction’s short runtime of 68 minutes, this release comes with a wealth of bonus material. All Rights Reserved. Kurzbeschreibung. I remember watching it on the tiny black and white portable in my bedroom as I shivered under the duvet, and not just from the winter cold. While reading Amy Binns' excellent biography of John Wyndham ( Hidden Wyndham ) I was fascinated by some of the photographs reproduce...Colin Wilson died today. Rose stands by Schalcken as he works and he finally manages to profess his love. World premiere of this highly sought-after ghost story from the BBC, released in the BFI's acclaimed Flipside series. They are, in effect, invitations to bed. : The Pain & Beauty of Strange AdvanceSonic Seraphim: The Interstellar Voices of Klaus Nomi & King DiamondThe Bloody Chamber: Angela and the Wolf: On Angela Carter’s The Company of WolvesThere is nothing perhaps more enchanting than a good old folk, or fairy tale.
A classic from the golden age of television ghost stories, Schalcken the Painter recreates the sights, sounds and sexual mores of 17th century Holland for a spine-tingling tale of a painter haunted by a spectre.Megahey adapted the film, a visual tour de force with scant dialogue, from Sheridan Le Fanu’s 1839 ‘Strange Event in the Life of Schalcken the Painter’, a short story in which the real-life genre painter and portraitist Godfried Schalcken (1647-1706), a student of Gerrit Dou (1613-75), receives a visitation from the spectre of the woman he once loved but forsook.Put in charge of the BBC’s arts documentary program Omnibus, Megahey legitimised commissioning himself to make Schalcken the Painter for the long-running series by shooting it in a docudrama style. Only having a DVD player, this was obviously the version I watched. All rights reserved. Based upon a short story by Carmilla author… Schalcken studies under Gerrit Dou, an apprentice of Rembrandt, in Leiden in the 1660s. Harvey is a movie fanatic and has interviewed several film celebrities. As she departs, horrified at the thought of sex with her future husband, Le Fanu coldly admits that the tale is one of unalleviated heartlessness. 'Schalcken the Painter', one of various television films by Leslie Megaheythat explore the creative nexus between the lives and work of painters, focuses on the Dutch artist Godfried Schalcken (1643-1706), and, like Jonathan Miller's 'Whistle and I'll Come to You'(BBC, tx. Based on Sheridan LeFanu’s “Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter” (1839), Leslie Megahey’s film is an arty horror piece produced for the Omnibus programme, during the Beeb’s fondly-remembered “tits-n-bums” period. He was noted for his mastery in reproducing the effect of candlelight, and painted in the exquisite and highly polished manner of the Leiden fijnschilders ByNWR Is Here!” An Interview With Jimmy McDonough — Biographer of Andy Milligan and Co-Conspirator of Nicolas Winding RefnStories from the Trenches: Adventures in Making High Octane Hollywood Movies with Cannon Veteran Sam FirstenbergThe Brood, by Stephen R. Bissette (Midnight Movie Monographs: Electric Dreamhouse, 2020)The Dripping, Psychedelic Horror of Noel Freibert’s Graphic Novel ‘Old Ground’‘Batman: Damned’ Review: Hell Comes For Bruce WayneReview: Jane is a Worthy Modern Day Retelling of Charlotte Brontë’s Classic TaleThe Footprints are Massive- Jim Henson’s The Storyteller: GiantsConfessions of a Cineslut: A New Golden Age for the Woman’s Film?Confessions of a Cineslut: Bell, Book and Candle (1958)Jaws boat to return on the 45th year anniversary of the movieEnter for A Chance to Win The Shining, Pan’s Labrynth and Gremlins in 4K Ultra HD™!Music to Get Your Spook On! The DVD / Blu-Ray release of 'Schalcken The Painter', a 1979 Christmas Ghost Story first shown on 23rd December 1979, is long overdue, and the BFI Flipside version does the film the kind of … Details Director: Leslie Megahey Cast: Jeremy Clyde, Maurice Denham, Cheryl Kennedy, John Justin, Anne Tirard Year: 1979 Length: 70 min Rating: BBFC 15 Region: B Disks: 2 (1 BD, 1 DVD) Label: BFI Flipside Release Date: Nov 18th, 2013 Video Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC Resolution: 1080p Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Type: Color Audio Audio: English: PCM 2.0 Mono Subtitles: English Extras Presented in both High Definition and Standard Definition The Pit (Edward Abraham, 1962, 27 mins): experimental gothic short, adapted from Edgar Allen Poe's 'The Pit and the Pendulum' Original sketches for The Pit The Pledge (Digby…
Harvey’s stories have appeared in numerous publications including Cinema Retro, Filmfax,Shock Cinema, Rue Morgue, Scarlet: The Film Magazine, National Post, Jerusalem Postand The Globe and Mail. He was 82 and had been seriously ill ever since he suffered a stroke last year.