I'll be interested in hearing what you think of it.

It's on Amazon Prime, but it might be on the PBS channel, which I got a free temporary subscription to. The Icelandic title is 'Hamarinn.'

Hamarinn is also up on the Dailymotion site: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x47ltwa

No, it is on Amazon Prime under the PBS 'subchannel' or whatever it is (I don't know the lingo).

I see -- I wasn't exactly sure how that all worked and didn't realize that shows or movies like that wouldn't show up in a search. I've got one episode left, which I'll most likely watch tonight, and give you the rundown tomorrow.

I see on IMDB that there is a second series of four episodes called "The Lava Fields" but I haven't checked yet to see if that's available. And the 2nd season of "Hidden" (the Welsh series) has just shown up.

I literally can't understand it, even with the subtitles.

AMDG

Dark, I guess, since it's in German? But I always watch British shows with subtitles, too.

I don't think you watched 'Hidden', as I myself just watched it last month and you hadn't heard of it at the time. It's the Welsh one that we talked about that was on Acorn, I believe. It was excellent -- quite different from your typical UK mystery/thriller.

I finished 'The Cliff' last night, and I'd call it good but not great, mainly because I felt that the ending was a bit of a let-down. Worth watching, though, as it's not a huge time commitment -- four 1 hr. episodes. And the Icelandic scenery is beautiful.

Finally watched The Vast of Night last night and I agree wholeheartedly with your take. Other than a couple points where I felt it lagged a little because it got too talky, I thought it was very good -- quite a debut for the director and cinematographer especially. I had to watch it on my laptop, but I'd like to see it on a bigger screen at some point, so I'll probably rewatch it when it hits DVD.

I didn't get the twist you mention, although I must say I didn't re-read your post until after I watched it, so I wasn't looking for it. Which is probably a good thing, because if I'd been looking for it I might have paid less attention to other aspects of the movie.

Anyways, I'm grateful for your post about it because I may not have come across it otherwise.

Yes, I did notice that, and at first it did not register as a twist. But in hindsight I see what you mean.

What comes to mind, although again I didn't consciously note it at the time, is the idea of the malevolent but not really invasive beings that appear in 'The Mothman Prophecies.' While not an entirely successful film, it is interesting in its posing the question of whether the "mothmen" are aliens or demons, or some sort of combination of the two. In 'Vast of Night' the visitors are definitely aliens, but if what the old woman tells the teens is true, then they are aliens who act like demons -- Prospero's urchins.

Don't know if you've ever seen 'Mothman...' but it's worth a watch. It's fabulously creepy, for one thing, like a good X-Files episode, and philosophically interesting, but unfortunately it descends somewhat into standard thriller territory towards the end, which I found disappointing.

Much of it was filmed in and around Pittsburgh, and a friend of mine, local actor Tim Hartman, appears in a couple scenes as the sound tech to whom Richard Gere's character brings the recording of the Mothman for analysis. Tim said he had a couple moderately long conversations with Gere, and found him to be a nice enough guy, friendly, but somewhat distant.

Tim also had a bit part in The Silence of the Lambs. He said that Jodi Foster was very distant and businesslike while Anthony Hopkins couldn't have been nicer. The latter actually walked around town between shoots, stopped and talked to people who recognized him, went into stores to buy things, etc., and acted just like a regular visitor to the city.

By the way, Tim was inadvertently responsible for a continuity error in Silence... The scene he's in is the one where the FBI agents accompany the female senator to the airport to talk to Lecter. Tim plays one of the agents, and he wanted to make himself stand out a little so he decided to have a piece of gum in his mouth. Well, during one of the cuts Jonathan Demme noticed it and told him to lose the gum, which he did. So in the movie, you see this FBI agent chewing gum behind the senator, cut to Lecter, who says something to the senator, then cut back to her and the agent is no longer chewing gum. It's silly but it's kind of fun knowing the story behind it.

Eventually. I’m pretty much occupied with hurricane aftermath for the time being. No electricity, only very very limited internet access. I don’t know if this will actually be posted or not.

Yes, me too -- absolutely!