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For this Sunday Kino Night, first up is Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast (1986), a WW2 melodrama-comedy-coming-of-age story from renowned Japanese auteur Nobuhiko Obayashi, the guy best-known for House (1977); we have also previously watched Miss Lonely (1985), His Motorbike Her Island (1986), and The Rocking Horsemen (1992). All were good, so we’re returning to the well once again. This one is about a schoolboy growing up in Japan in the late 1930s as the country falls further and further into a nationalistic frenzy. He learns that a girl he knows is abot to be sold into sex work to pay heer dad’s debts, and so, he teams up with some other kids to help her out. A whole lot of over-the-top antics follow, with Obayashi’s usual comic-bookish aesthetic. “Live-action anime” is a common refrain in reviews which are excellent across the board.

Next is Night and the City (1950), a British film-noir about a destitute petty thief who can’t do anything right, and has been reduced to mooching off his girlfriend. Suddenly, he discovers an opportunity to hit the big money as a wrestling promoter, and goes all-in attempting to restore his dignity. I’m sure this will end happily. Director is Jules Dassin, who is otherwise best-known for the French heist thriller Rififi (1955), which we previously watched. This is considered one of the best noirs of the 1950s, so let’s give it a whirl.

We’ll start at 8PM EST on Hextube, right here:

https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast: https://letterboxd.com/film/bound-for-the-fields-the-mountains-and-the-seacoast/
• Night and the City: https://letterboxd.com/film/night-and-the-city/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast: Sorry, nothing on DTDD or IMDB.
• Night and the City: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042788/parentalguide/?ref_=tt_ov_at_stry_4

CWs for Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast:

• Implied sex work.
• Fistfighting.
• Slapstick violence.
• Misogyny.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Fascism.
• Indoctrination of children.
• Bullying.

CWs for Night and the City:

• Wrestling.
• Slapping.
• Misogyny.
• Fistfighting.
• Smoking.
• Alcohol.
• Suicide.
• Strangulation.

Links to movies:

• Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast: https://tankie.tube/w/5NqiKzAKMon1T4KYUD6kc6
• Night and the City: https://tankie.tube/w/cZ3ejEHm277bCVnnxpehR1

I can't imagine Vince Vaughn or Jason Schwartzman in the lead role either. But Wahlberg with a lisp would be the worst.

Donnie Darko

Early on Vince Vaughn was offered the role of Donnie, but he turned it down as he felt he was too old for the part. Mark Wahlberg was also approached, but he insisted that he should play Donnie with a lisp. [...] Development progressed in early 2000, when actor Jason Schwartzman expressed an interest in the script and agreed to play as Donnie. Kelly said this moment "legitimized me as a director" and recalled "all of a sudden people came out of the woodwork, it was alive again".

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For this Friday Movie Night, first up is The Substance (2024), a feminist body horror starrig Demi Moore as a fading Holywood star who decides to use a strange new drug that induces shapeshifting, to create a younger version of herself. What could possibly go wrong? Comparisons to The Thing (1982) and The Fly (1986) are common. Director is Coralie Fargeat, who is otherwise best-known for the similarly-themed Revenge (2017), which we have not watched; this is her best-regarded film to date, and has already been receiving some awards buzz. An excellent camrip is already available, so we’ll check it out.

After that is Drifting Clouds (1996), a romantic dramedy from Aki Kourismaki, the most renowned filmmaker from the bleak, icy wasteland known as Finland. A married couple find themselves both out of work when a recession hits Helsinki; they must both do whatever they can to earn money. Darkly humorous antics follow, in typically Nordic deadpan style. God damn capitalism. This is the highest-rated Finnish film on Letterboxd, and will be the first Finnish film ever shown on Hextube.

We’ll start at 8PM EST on Hextube, right here:

https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• The Subtance: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-substance/
• Drifting Clouds: https://letterboxd.com/film/drifting-clouds-1996/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• The Substance: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/861732
• Drifting Clouds: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116752/parentalguide/?ref_=tt_stry_pg

CWs for The Substance:

• Stalking.
• Woman brutalized for spectacle.
• Drug use.
• Drug addiction.
• Alcohol abuse.
• Bugs.
• Slapping of woman.
• Bullying.
• Beatings.
• Hand trauma.
• Dislocations.
• Decapitation.
• Choking.
• Body horror.
• Amputation.
• Squashed head.
• Unconsciousness.
• Broken bones.
• Tooth damage.
• Finger mutilation.
• Eye mutilation.
• Blood and gore.
• Jump scares.
• Shower scene.
• Vomiting.
• Spitting.
• Audio gore.
• Needles.
• Hospital scene.
• Mental illness.
• Self-harm.
• Violent mentally-ill person.
• Dissociation.
• Unstable reality.
• Meltdown.
• Misophonia.
• Body dysmorphia.
• Eating disorder.
• Sudden loud noises.
• Shaky cam.
• Screaming.
• Profanity.
• Flashing lights.
• Fat jokes.
• Nudity.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Honking horns.
• Car crash.
• Sad ending.

CWs for Drifting Clouds:

• Stabbing.
• Fistfighting.
• Alcohol.
• Smoking.

Links to movies:

• The Substance: https://tankie.tube/w/hjk8t4rYoDsGSNGh7ffp5U
• Drifting Clouds: https://tankie.tube/w/qBowNAEbgAzGVwVCoschft

Most of these movies are called psychological movies, but searching under this category I have not found anything that comes close to what I am looking for, movies like memento, 12 monkeys and primer are characterized by something, a person who knows information (Be good or bad), and is in a situation isolated from the rest of the population, no one other than the protagonist or a very small group of people knows what is happening and what it implies, that is the type of movies I am looking for, movies with isolated stories, if you know of any movie that makes you feel that I don't know what it is with the 3 movies I mentioned, please leave me the name and synopsis. (I had forgotten to mention donnie darko)

I'll start with "PCU."

The one upside is that the main villain is played by the lady who also played and she's amazing as she always was even while playing a terrible role in an enlightened centrist pop-nihilist propaganda film.

The rest of it is steaming smug-seasoned "caring about things makes you stupid" ideology. And I mean pretty much anything that might matter to disadvantaged people or the planet they live on.

Wildlife conservation? Stupid. (tear down those flyers, yeah fuck non-human life forms!)

Veganism? Stupid. (better bully them until they cry!)

Black activism? Stupid. (lol look they're chasing the clueless white boy with vaguely lynch-themed cinematics WHAT IF WE REVERSED THE VICTIM AND PERPETRATOR?!)

Feminism? Stupid. (they just need to get laid lololololololol)

is politically correct and has two hyphenated last names? Some rich white assholes firing her is seen as the happy ending!

All of those silly people that care too much about things just have a le epic drunk party at the end and that washes away all their concerns about the world like so many lotuses eaten by so many lotus eaters. They touched grass!

Fuck that movie so much. All the chuds in my immediate biological family loved it, of course.

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For this Special Thursday Cinema Night, 8PM EST, there’s no special theme, just two more good flicks. First up is The Look of Silence (2015), the sequel to the highly-acclaimed Indonesian death-squad documentary The Act of Killing (2012), and directed again by Joshua Oppenheimer. Unlike its predecessor, which follows the death-squad members, this one focuses on their victims, bringing their family members into contact with the people who killed their friends, children, and relatives. Drama ensues. Highly-acclaimed, just like the previous film, so let’s give it a whirl.

After that is Coffee & Cigarettes (2003), an eleven-part anthology from Jim Jarmusch featuring various humorous vignettes involving people talking while smoking and drinking coffee. Among the featured actors are Bill Murray, Steve Buscemi, Cate Blanchett, Roberto Benigni, the White Stripes, the Wu-Tang Clan, Tom Waits, and Iggy Pop. Yep, it’s a Jarmusch movie. We’re going back in.

We’ll start at 8PM EST on Hextube, right here:

https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• The Look of Silence: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-look-of-silence/
• Coffee & Cigarettes: https://letterboxd.com/film/coffee-and-cigarettes-2003/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• The Look of Silence: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3521134/parentalguide/?ref_=tt_stry_pg
• Coffee & Cigarettes: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379217/parentalguide/?ref_=tt_stry_pg

CWs for The Look of Silence:

• Nudity.
• War crimes.
• PTSD.
• Hate speech.
• Graphic descriptions of atrocities.

CWs for Coffee & Cigarettes:

• Smoking.
• Caffeine addiction.
• Profanity.

Links to movies:

• The Look of Silence: https://tankie.tube/w/pzrHKLd7stc2hS9TmCKwDe
• Coffee & Cigarettes: https://tankie.tube/w/pVEnqzsGPDukY7vJZsarxR

Nationalist propaganda capeshit gonna propagandise

More like Pooperman amirite?

Recently it has come out that Coppola has inappropriately touched and kissed extras without their consent on the set of his latest film. This is obviously reason enough not to support the film, but if you know anything about Coppola's history with abusers, this should come as no surprise.

In 1989, Francis Ford Coppola's protégé, Victor Salva, sexually assaulted a child actor, a 12 year-old named Nathan Forrest Winters, on the set of a film that Coppola produced.

Coppola defended and protected Salva, hooked him up with expensive lawyers, resulting in a reduced prison sentence of only 15 months, most of which was spent in a cushy rehabilitation center for sex criminals. Coppola remained friends with Salva and visited him in jail. After his release, Salva returned to Hollywood with the help of Coppola, who would continue to produce several of his films.

After Salva's arrest, Winters was forced to complete ADR on the film he was abused on, in Coppola's own home. Coppola, one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in Hollywood, threatened to sue 12 year-old Winters for breach of contract for trying to leave the project. Coppola told Winters he'd never work in Hollywood again, and he didn't.

In 2006, Coppola said,

"You have to remember, while this was a tragedy, that the difference in age between Victor and the boy was very small — Victor was practically a child himself."

Salva was 29 at the time while Winters was 12. In fact, Salva had been grooming and sexually abusing Winters from the age of 6.

To hear Winters tell his story: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M9ATFAYsEk

There's more than one definition of "engineer".

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For this Wednesday Super Slop Night, first up is The Man Who Saved the World (1982), AKA Turkish Star Wars, a particularly infamous piece of Z-budgeted schlock. A pair of Turkish space adventurers duel an evil space wizard and his minions on an alien planet; a whole lot of fighting follows, along with footage blatantly lifted from Star Wars and other Hollywood flicks and inserted into new contexts. Apparently the film also contains some lectures on Islam. We will a view a rip cobbled together from degraded old film reels and an ancient VHS release. This will be the first Turkish movie we have ever watched on Hextube; another country crossed off the list.

After that is Asteroid City (2023), another comedy from Wes Anderson, since our recent showings from hs filmography have all been hits. It concerns a play based on a fictional writer’s experience in a stargazing event in a remote town in the 1950s, which becomes complicated when an alien shows up and steals the asteroid after which the town was named. Hilarity ensues as the film switches back nnd forth between the play and the “real” events on which it is based. Looks good; let’s check it out.

We’ll start at 8PM EST on Hextube, right here:

https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• The Man Who Saved the World: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-man-who-saved-the-world-1982/
• Asteroid City: https://letterboxd.com/film/asteroid-city/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• The Man Who Saved the World: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0182060/parentalguide?ref_=tt_stry_pg
• Asteroid City: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/1014835

CWs for The Man Who Saved the World:

• Fistfighting.
• Blood and gore.
• Choking.
• Child abuse.
• Deaths of children.
• Zombies.
• Stabbing.
• Discussion of religion.
• Decapitation.
• Dismemberment.
• Jump scares.

CWs for Asteroid City:

• Drug use.
• Hand damage.
• Death of parent.
• Shower scene.
• Self-harm.
• Unstable reality.
• Suicidal ideation.
• Someone is watched without their knowledge.
• Broken fourth wall.
• Death of LGBT person.
• Discussion of religion.
• Nudity.
• Implied sex.
• Chronic illness.
• Discussion of existentialism.
• Screeching tires.
• Nuclear explosion.
• Gun violence.

Links to movies:

• The Man Who Saved the World: https://tankie.tube/w/4vjrWmGKm84NQwVXPTTMYd
• Asteroid City: https://tankie.tube/w/pKftnwtVqCHcQGWUorLcP2

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The visual cuisine for tonight is, due to popular demand, two more episodes of season 5 of The Sopranos and Godzilla vs the Smog Monster.

9 pm est

content warnings:

Sopranos:

https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/13786?index1=-1&index2=-1

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0141842/parentalguide

• Panic attacks
• Profanity
• Sexism
• Homophobic slurs and homophobia
• Racist slurs and racism
• Nudity and sex
• Violence
• Depression
• Suicide
• Gun violence
• Domestic violence
• Abusive parents
• Drugs, alcohol, and addiction
• Hospital scenes and medical procedures
• Depictions of distress
• Transphobia
• Ableism
• Weight shaming

https://tankie.tube/w/iT9CbDDfa687xi7njex4hF

https://tankie.tube/w/kU3AgNJhj1BgYwEjWEHCaN

Godzilla vs the Smog Monster

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067148/parentalguide

• Mild nudity
• Corpses and skeletons
• Violence
• Violence towards animals
• Choking
• People are killed by acid
• Blood
• Mild profanity
• Drugs
• A character is blinded in an eye

https://tankie.tube/w/2ScuU4Ytpejce7i7sKZWtH

9 pm est

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The visual cuisine for this Monday night consists of - due to popular demand - the next 3 episodes of the Harley Quinn Anime and Godzilla vs Biollante.

8 pm est

content warnings:

Harley Quinn

https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/21892?index1=-1&index2=-1

• Cartoon violence, gore, and death
• Profanity
• An episode has a few slurs
• Domestic violence/abusive relationships
• Gaslighting
• Child abuse
• Frequent mentions of sex
• Objectification of women
• A dog dying is mentioned
• A cat dies
• Drugs and alcohol
• Addiction
• Animal death
• Giant spiders
• Implied SA
• Cutting, e.g knife fights
• Eye mutilation
• Death of children
• Kidnapping
• Death of a parent
• Cheating in a relationship
• Clowns
• Electro-therapy
• Needles and syringes
• Scenes in a mental institution
• A mentally ill person is violent, most notably the protagonist as well as multiple recurring characters
• Flashing lights
• Fat shaming
• Antisemitism
• Ableism

Godzilla vs Biollante

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097444/parentalguide

• Violence
• Mild profanity
• Gun violence
• Blood
• Corpses
• Massive monsters
• Light profanity
• Smoking
• A character is lit on fire

https://tankie.tube/w/xxcigrrzraRG7YHJLMRBvF

This was posted here a few years ago. Basically two dudes are hanging around when all of a sudden a janky rocket ship appears then lands. Two grungy-looking people come out and start performing wacky hijinks in an attempt to solicit money from the dudes. One dude turns to the other and says, by way of explanation, "capitalist country".

sorry, i should have picked a lower resolution poster image whoops (e: fixed)

Also holy shit this movie still kicks so much ass. I rewatched it recently and i was blown away by how excellent it still is 25 years later. Most movies do not age this well.

I'm binging on The Night Gallery and it's disappointing. Sometimes I laugh at the unintentional humor. Without a pentagram inside - the five pointed star has zero demonic swagger. It's just a star inside a circle.

It's from "The Phantom Farmhouse" and the palms belong to a hippie-ish guitar playing guy played by David Carradine.

You were all watching woke.