#Peter Straughan

[yosbin]

what the hell I watched the wgf x peter straughan script breakdown of conclave (2024), took notes, and made graphics of the script + screenshots so you didn't have to. have a visual guide.

[sesiondemadrugada]

Conclave (Edward Berger, 2024).

[cheenault]

CONCLAVE, 2024 dir. Edward Berger

[cinelestial]

Peter Straughan wins the award for Best Screenplay Motion Picture at the 2025 Golden Globe Awards for Conclave

[cinesludge]

Movie #53 of 2024: Conclave

"I am as God made me."

This is the best looking film I've ever seen shot on Red. I thought it was shot on 35mm. Impressive job by the production and post production teams.

[shakespearenews]

Peter Straughan, who adapted Hilary Mantel’s prize-winning historical novel “Wolf Hall” for screen has set the story of William Shakespeare’s first folio as his next project.

Produced by Bonafide Films and Runaway Fridge Productions with the support of Film4, “Folio” will recount how a collection of Shakespeare’s works were assembled seven years after his death and preserved for future generations.

“Four hundred years on from its original publication, ‘Folio’ follows the journey of Shakespeare’s former Kings Men colleagues – actors John Heminges and Henry Condell – as they embark on a picaresque road trip through an England on the brink of Puritanism and gather the material to keep their friend’s work and memory alive,” reads the logline.

[randomrichards]

CONCLAVE:

Secrets are revealed

During votes for a new Pope

Testing a man’s faith

[genevieveetguy]

. Our faith is a living thing precisely because it walks hand-in-hand with doubt. If there was only certainty and no doubt, there would be no mystery. And therefore no need for faith. Let us pray that God will grant us a Pope who doubts. And let him grant us a Pope who sins and asks for forgiveness and who carries on.

Conclave, Edward Berger (2024)

[spryfilm]

Film review: “Conclave” (2024)

[yosbin]

my favourite line from peter straughan’s CONCLAVE (2024) script

[cinematicendevaourz]

Berger's "Conclave" has dropped at a pertient time, given the weeks remaining for the U.S. election and all the chicanery surrounding it. Apparently, this isn't a foreign concept as Berger takes Straughan's script and shows the vision of just how childish men in their senoir ages can be when tempted with a little power. It's a cool and calm vision, ominous and foreboding as aby walkthrough in a Catholic church, or any Abrahamic vestibule for cult worship for that manner. I expected to laugh at the stuffy situations a little more than I did, but what was given was enough to allow some unexpected, but needed gutbusters, because goddamn "Conclave" is a gloomy film. Fiennes excelled in his role as Lawrence, Castellito had me rooting for Todesto and his stance on traditionalism.Tucci portrayed an excellent example of a hypocritcal liberal and Lithgow was cowardly as ever in his supporting role. An all star cast compliments the idea of a film about a pillar of society undergoing pangs of change, that Father Time makes all a fool too, no matter who claims the chief role in a papacy.

Amazing to see how sex is still such a hang up in a cult of creationism.

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C.V.R. The Bard 27th/Oct.2k24

[buffyfan145]

Interesting update about the 4 upcoming Beatles movies from Sam Mendes as we found out one of the writers and it turns out they're having 4 different writers write each movie. Peter Straughan told Deadline today that he's writing the George Harrison movie and talked more about how this is going to happen. Each writer is telling their own version of the Beatles from their Beatle's POV, while Sam will direct all 4 and some events will be filmed at the same time from each POV too. Peter also talked a bit about George's movie and that it will focus on his spiritual journey too, which a lot of us figured would be the case with his movie. I do like this idea especially being a writer myself and with George being my favorite I do like what Peter's said, so I'm excited about checking these out and how each film is supposed to be a different experience too.

[grabyourpillow]

Correction: Conclave sceenwriter is Peter Straughan??? I checked before writing this post I have no idea why I wrote Edward Berger. Sorry. It's Peter Straughan

I've been thinking about the moment Lawrence tells Bellini about his papal name "John. I would choose John".

On one hand the words of Conclave writer Edward Berger bounce around in my head like a windows xp saving screen: "Lawrence admits he has harbored that ambition, that he has prepared his name. It's true what Bellini said about him. It's true about all of them -- except for one person, of course."

And on the other hand it's such a tender little moment. Lawrence could just, not say it and retain the moral high ground literally forever. And as always, always, he chooses to step down, and comfort his longtime confident and friend by looking at him, holding his hands and telling him "look. I'm down here in the muck with the rest of you. With you." And also, perhaps even more importantly "you did not read me wrong. You do, know me."

Going insane

[moorheadthanyoucanhandle]

SWEET SISTINE

Opening in theaters this weekend:

Conclave--Ralph Fiennes plays the Dean of the College of Cardinals, who has the unenviable job of presiding over a contentious election to replace a recently deceased Pope. With liberal, conservative and shifty middle-of-the-road candidates and their factions jockeying, the sequestered old fellows can't arrive at the needed two-thirds majority.

Stanley Tucci is a liberal who insists, demurely and unconvincingly, that he doesn't want the gig, but is willing to take it and will embrace a broad spectrum of progressive reforms if elected. Sergio Castellitto is a cheerfully reactionary, Italo-centric Cardinal who still resents Vatican II. John Lithgow, playing the middle, is all wounded innocence when told that there's a bad report about his last meeting with the late Pontiff. Then there's the mysterious Cardinal (Carlos Diehz) of Kabul, who shows up out of nowhere, having only recently been appointed by the deceased Pope unbeknownst to the College.

This tale of an improbable papal ascendancy almost challenges Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian VII  for far-fetched wishful thinking. How possible, let alone plausible, any of it is I can't say. Nor do I much care. High ecclesiastical dramas are fun. Movies ranging from the naïvely pious Shoes of the Fisherman (1968) to the campy Monsignor (1982) to the wild and woolly Angels & Demons (2009) have all taken advantage of the splendor and grand theatrical ceremony of the Vatican, and the intrigues of its sumptuously outfitted habitués.

So too does Edward Berger, the German director of Conclave, adapted by Peter Straughan from the 2016 novel by the Brit Robert Harris. The movie starts a little slow, but very soon, abetted by the cinematography of Stéphane Fontaine and the fevered strings of Viktor Bertelmann's score, it becomes an exciting spectacle, swept along by Berger in a manner reminiscent at times of the great silents; he gives us carefully composed tableaux of clerics skulking about shadowy stairwells, or Eisenstein-ish masses of nuns under umbrellas, surging like tides into high-angle shots.

But Berger's eye on the settings also cuts through the superficial lushness and opulence to find an oppressive cheerlessness. The marble-paneled hallway into which Fiennes and his fellow Cardinals emerge from their austere dorm rooms during the conclave's lockdown has an institutional dreariness.  The figures in Michelangelo's Last Judgement glower down in reproach upon the Cardinals as they vote. Somehow the most hopeful presence in the film is a rather intrepid turtle.

Berger's skill is impressive, but it's the acting that makes Conclave lively and juicy, and ultimately even moving. Fiennes, always good at suffering, has rarely been so woebegone, or so wryly likable. Tucci and Lithgow could do roles like these in their sleep, and they're both crisply on point. Lucian Msamati and Brian F. O'Bryne are strong as a Nigerian Cardinal and as the Dean's sheepish aide, respectively. And as a large-and-in-charge, baleful-looking nun, Isabella Rossellini's role is almost wordless early on, but then she brings off her one big moment so flawlessly that her punctuating gesture wins applause.

[screenzealots]

"Conclave"

This look at the intersection of faith, power, and politics is best enjoyed without prior spoilers to fully appreciate its dramatic impact.

I can count on one hand the films that made me audibly gasp in the theater, and “Conclave” is one of those few. Directed by Edward Berger and based on the novel by Robert Harris, this surprising, shocking story offers a commanding exploration of the exceptionally secretive world of the Vatican’s electoral process. With a high-stakes story (along with a whopper of a twist), an effective original…