vilenciaproductions Review of Seance on a Wet Afternoon

Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)

let streaming tears be poured out in store! CINEMA AT IT'S VERY BEST!

[10/10 · 2 December 2020]

Lucky was I to own a beautiful 16mm print of this remarkable picture! It is a masterpiece of British Cinema, and one of a hand full of great feature pictures made in the decade of the 1960's! (there wasn't much) I won't go on about the plot, the actors, the direction etc, I will only say this! One of my biggest regrets was that I sold that print to a film broker for $450.00 this was back in the 1980's! I have never been able to put my hands on another print, and I would love to project it again! I only watch my favorite pictures on a motion picture projector with 16mm or 35mm prints! I hate all other formats period! And I hate digital cinema with a passion! The death of 35mm film projection was the death of cinema! Dead and lieth wrap'd in lead, O heavy hearse let streaming tears be poured out in store! "Seance on a Wet Afternoon" was a truly great picture and thank goodness it was photographed in gorgeous stunning black and white! They could never make a motion picture such as this one today, even if Richard Attenborough himself attended it! Never in a million feet of film could it be made now! In 2020 almost 2021 it would suck! There would be cell phones, computers, sex scenes, horrible loud contemporary music, stupid actresses with colored hair, idiots covered with tattoos, violence for no reason, a few good car chases, vulgar language, covid-19 masks, Mr. Trump and Mr. Biden and all other things horrible now! May the celluloid God have mercy on us all! Now where did I put that Covid-19 mask? Damn it!