For this Sunday Kino Night, we’re starting early, so that I can fulfill a request for legendary reggae-album-with-film-attached The Harder They Come (1972), the first Jamaican feature film ever. Jimmy Cliff stars as a struggling reggae singer who turns to crime to make ends meet, including selling weed and killing cops. The soundtrack is frequently included on lists of the best film scores of all time. It is the only feature film of director Perry Henzell; he is a true one-hit wonder. Sounds cool; let’s watch. After that is The Hill (1965), a British WW2 film set in a disciplinary British prison camp where sadistic guards make lives a living hell for their court-martialled countrymen. God Damn the UKKK: The Movie. This is one of the better-regarded movies of Sidney Lumet, who is best-known for 12 Angry Men (1957). The premise sounds neat, so let’s give it a whirl. Last is Miss Lonely (1985), also known as Lonely Heart, a fantasy-romance from renowned Japanese auteur Nobuhiko Obayashi, whose films have recently been gaining more exposure in the West. Thus far, we have watched House (1977), His Motorbike Her Island (1986), and The Rocking Horsemen (1992) from his catalogue, and all were good, so let’s cross one more off the list. Miss Lonely concerns a high-school boy, unlucky in romance, who suddenly comes across his dream girl, but then starts to suspect she might be a literal ghost. Is she real? I guess we’ll find out. Great reviews for this one.
We’ll start early, at 7PM EST on Hextube, right here:
https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies
Be there, comrades!
Letterboxd:
- The Harder They Come: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-harder-they-come/
- The Hill: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-hill/
- Miss Lonely: https://letterboxd.com/film/miss-lonely/
Doesthedogdie.com links:
- The Harder They Come: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070155/parentalguide?ref_=tt_stry_pg
- The Hill: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059274/parentalguide?ref_=tt_stry_pg
- Miss Lonely. Sorry, nothing on DTDD or IMDB.
CWs for The Harder They Come:
- Nudity.
- Sex.
- Gun violence.
- Stabbing.
- Blood and gore.
- Alcohol abuse.
- Smoking.
CWs for The Hill:
- British people.
- Picture of topless woman.
- Beating of prisoners.
- Racist slurs.
- Profanity.
- Smoking.
- Alcohol abuse.
- Prison.
CWs for Miss Lonely:
- Woogin’.
- Ghosts.
- Sexual innuendos.
- Incest subtext.
- Gaslighting.
- Hallucinations.
Links to movies:
- The Harder They Come (will be replaced by Miss Lonely once it's done): https://vimeo.com/899073961
- The Hill: https://vimeo.com/900296208
