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For this Sunday Kino Night, first up is Ghostlight (2024), a dramedy about a dad who copes with the recent loss of his son by entering a theatre troupe alongside his estranged daughter, in which his onstage role begins to mirror his personal struggles. What if theatre was therapy? Apparently, this is a heartwarmer. One of the best-reviewed movies of 2024, and a frequent entry on critics’ end-of-year top 10 lists. This is the best-regarded work to date of directors Alex Thompson and Kelly O’Sullivan, who are not known for much else otherwise.

Next up is Basic Sanitation: The Movie (2007), a Brazilian mockumentary about a group of filmmakers who decide to call attention to their local sewage systems’ dire need for federal funding by using money from a film grant to create a sci-fi movie about a sewer monster. Hilarity ensues. Director Jorge Furtado specializes in this flavor of light comedy, and this is the best-regarded of them. One of the highest-rated Brazilian films on Letterboxd.

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

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

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Ghostlight: https://letterboxd.com/film/ghostlight-2024/
• Basic Sanitation: The Movie: https://letterboxd.com/film/basic-sanitation-the-movie/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Ghostlight: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/1072708
• Basic Sanitation: The Movie: Sorry, nothing on DTDD or IMDB.

CWs for Ghostlight:

• Screaming.
• Death of family member.
• Suicide attempt.
• Suicide.
• References to sex.
• Fistfights.
• Profanity.
• Smoking.
• Alcohol.

CWs for Basic Sanitation: The Movie:

• Slapstick violence.
• Profanity.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Kissing.

Links to movies:

• Ghostlight: https://tankie.tube/w/6trWrScjosQK3KzbHkibmg
• Basic Sanitation: The Movie: https://tankie.tube/w/sgLdTQnbPnF3xb4PG1mDeT