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For this Friday Movie Night, first up is Funny Girl (1968), the blockbuster musical that made Barbra Streisand a household name. Babs stars in an embellished biography of 1930s comedian Fanny Brice, following her rise and fall in the ruthless world of showbiz, and her strained romance with a gambler (Omar Sharif). This has a really high rating on Letterboxd, so we’ll give it a whirl. Director is William Wyler, who specialized in these sorts of big-studio features, such as Roman Holiday (1953) and Ben-Hur (1959); we previously watched his lesbian drama The Children’s Hour (1961), period drama The Heiress (1949), and epic western The Big Country (1958).

After that is Children of Heaven (1997), an Iranian children’s drama about a boy who borrows his sister’s shoes, and then loses them, forcing him to scour his hometown in search of the shoes, and, failing that, to get a new pair of shoes. Where the hell are the god damn shoes? I guess we’ll find out. This is the best-known and best-regarded film of director Majid Majidi, and is considered one of the best Iranian films of all time. Currently ranked #187 on the IMDb [Top 250)(https://www.imdb.com/chart/top/).

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

https://blorp.bot.nu/o/visual_cuisine

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Funny Girl: https://letterboxd.com/film/funny-girl/
• Children of Heaven: https://letterboxd.com/film/children-of-heaven/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Funny Girl: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062994/parentalguide/
• Children of Heaven: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118849/parentalguide/

CWs for Funny Girl:

• Implied sex.
• Kissing.
• Pregnancy.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Profanity.
• Alcohol.
• Smoking.
• Nervous breakdown.

CWs for Children of Heaven:

• Bicycle crash.
• Child endangerment.
• Poverty.
• Profanity.

Links to movies:

• Funny Girl: https://tankie.tube/w/tpz2qtmfrGPGKjWYEXpFFS
• Children of Heaven: https://tankie.tube/w/sJeUv4uQ4X7YWyGdcCkgA3