IMPORTANT NOTE: please use a VPN whenever visiting Hextube, or anywhere else on the internet, for that matter. Protect your privacy.

For this Sunday Kino Night, we’re starting with In Cold Blood (1967), the highly-acclaimed film adaptation of Truman Capote’s novel of the same name, which was pretty much the launchpad for the entire genre we now know as “true crime”. A pair of thieves botch a house robbery and end up committing murder; they then go on the run and must come to terms with what they have done. Will they get away with their crimes? No, no they won’t. This is generally considered the best film of director Richard Brooks, who is otherwise best-known for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958).

After that is Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald (1997), a Japanese screwball comedy about a housewife who manages to get her radio play performed on a national station; everything looks like it’s going great, until the star demands to change the name of her character, at which point everyone else starts altering their parts, too. Chaos and hilarity ensue. Will they still manage to perform the play successfully? I guess we’ll find out. This is the best-known and best-regarded work of director Koki Mitani, and was nominated for a bunch of awards in Japan at the time. Looks cool; let’s watch.

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

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

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• In Cold Blood: https://letterboxd.com/film/in-cold-blood/
• Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald: https://letterboxd.com/film/welcome-back-mr-mcdonald/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• In Cold Blood: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061809/parentalguide?ref_=tt_stry_pg
• Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald: Sorry, nothing on DTDD or IMDB.

CWs for In Cold Blood:

• Prostitution.
• Hanging.
• Implied sex.
• Reference to sexual assault (not depicted.)
• Blood.
• Gun violence.
• A man hits a woman with a belt.
• Hanging.
• Smoking.
• Alcohol.
• Child abuse.
• Homophobic slurs.
• Profanity.

CWs for Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald:

• Anxiety.
• High-pressure situations.
• Shouting.

Links to movies:

• In Cold Blood: https://tankie.tube/w/fDKapwrJ4LnszV9Hvn4Y2e
• Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald: https://tankie.tube/w/w14pGAXP836bekq4yDgsjN

IMPORTANT NOTE: please use a VPN whenever visiting Hextube, or anywhere else on the internet, for that matter. Protect your privacy.

For this edition of Saturday Anime Night, the people demanded more Sailor Moon, and so, we’re continuing on, with episodes 79 through 84 of the 1992 series, the definitive magical-girl anime. This is the completely unabridged, unexpurgated, uncensored, Japanese version of the show, including everything that the English dub butchered, altered, and/or cut, which is quite a bit. Tonight’s episodes see the continuation of the Black Moon Clan arc, including the demise of third-in-command Esmeraude, and the formal introduction of Sailor Pluto.

After that is The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix (1975), a stop-motion Norwegian racing film about a bicycle repairman who decides to beat a former friend in a car race after said friend steals his plans for a new vehicle. Hilarity ensues. It remains, to this day, the most-attended movie of all time in Norway measured by number of tickets sold, and is considered one of the best Norwegian films ever, being endlessly replayed on TV and such; it is director Ivo Caprino’s only feature-length movie. Rave reviews for this one across the board, so let’s check it out.

We’ll start 8PM EST on Hextube, right here: https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Sailor Moon: Sorry, not on Letterboxd. Here’s the MAL page: https://myanimelist.net/anime/530/Bishoujo_Senshi_Sailor_Moon
• The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-pinchcliffe-grand-prix/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Sailor Moon: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103369/parentalguide?ref_=tt_stry_pg
• The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/470254

CWs for Sailor Moon:

• Nudity.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Bath scenes.
• Age-gap romance.
• Panty shots.
• Cutting of flesh.
• Blood and gore.
• Animal abuse.
• Children in peril.
• Smoking.
• Alcohol abuse.
• Sexual harassment of schoolgirls.
• Kissing.
• Deaths of parents.

CWs for The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix:

• Car crashes.
• Cartoon violence.
• Ethnic stereotypes.

Links to movies:

• Sailor Moon episode 79: https://tankie.tube/w/ttzjKnNpdMHfsV1vRNihVC
• Sailor Moon episode 80: https://tankie.tube/w/pTTtENUAU18Eyj5XsHNEu4
• Sailor Moon episode 81: https://tankie.tube/w/1MZRcaZYdupwqAKWittHQF
• Sailor Moon episode 82: https://tankie.tube/w/bh5tZptvozq9pPVNS4aGNo
• Sailor Moon episode 83: https://tankie.tube/w/hrkbvouTSJfHZFT6T5CkS7
• Sailor Moon episode 84: https://tankie.tube/w/rswx2MN7YUsRjRsa6eSpnK
• The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix: https://tankie.tube/w/pZPpsadaNzNs9UakrJEidk

IMPORTANT NOTE: please use a VPN whenever visiting Hextube, or anywhere else on the internet, for that matter. Protect your privacy.

For this Friday Movie Night, the people demanded more Chinese films, and so, we’ll watch one of the all-time classics of Chinese cinema: Farewell, My Concubine (1992), the magnum opus of Chen Kaige, who is otherwise best-known for The Battle at Lake Changjin (2021). It centers on a boy raied to play female parts in Chinese operas, and his rise and fall from the 1930s through the 1960s, as well as his romantic entanglements with both men and women. It won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1993 and is currently ranked #154 on Letterboxd’s Top 250 films of all time.

After that is German stop-motion fairy tale The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926), the oldest surviving animated feature film, as well as the earliest feature of note directed by a woman (Lotte Reiniger). Inspired by the Arabian Nights, it tells the story of a young prince with a flying horse who battles an army of demons to win the heart of a princess. The entire movie unfolds via silhouettes of paper cutouts, a style rarely used since. This film is pretty much universally acclaimed and considered the apex of silent-era animation, so 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:

• Farewell, My Concubine: https://letterboxd.com/film/farewell-my-concubine/
• The Adventures of Prince Achmed: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-adventures-of-prince-achmed/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Farewell, My Concubine: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/12819
• The Adventures of Prince Achmed: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0015532/parentalguide?ref_=tt_stry_pg

CWs for Farewell, My Concubine:

• Death of dog.
• Child abandonment.
• Domestic violence.
• Gaslighting.
• Opium abuse.
• Alcohol abuse.
• Someone is physically restrained.
• Sexual assault: at about 40 minutes in, a perverted older man wrestles a young boy onto a bed. No sex acts are shown and the scene cuts away, but the implication is clear.
• Someone struggles to breathe.
• Finger mutilation.
• Hanging,
• Suicide.
• Genital trauma.
• Torture.
• Infant abduction.
• Death of child.
• Sexualization of minor (by other characters.)
• Shower scene.
• Spitting.
• Suicidal ideation.
• Crying baby.
• Obscene language.
• Babies.
• Miscarriage.
• Misgendering.
• “Man in a dress” jokes.
• Homophobic slurs.
• Death of LGBT person.
• Sex.
• Nudity.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Male character ridiculed for crying.
• Homelessness.
• Blood and gore.
• Gun violence.
• Sad ending.

CWs for The Adventures of Prince Achmed:

• Silhouetted nudity.
• Kidnapping.
• Bath scene.
• Orientalism.

Links to movies:

• Farewell, My Concubine: https://tankie.tube/w/7ntGtMS8Fa6v6k9Tv92qNr
• The Adventures of Prince Achmed: https://tankie.tube/w/k6jh1L3gydZfpuQ7jXBeJQ

IMPORTANT NOTE: please use a VPN whenever visiting Hextube, or anywhere else on the internet, for that matter. Protect your privacy.

For this Sunday Kino Night, we’re starting with Monster (2023), the most recent film of renowned Japanese auteur Hirokazu Koreeda (Shoplifters [2018], Nobody Knows [2004]), and one of the most-acclaimed movies of 2023, currently ranked #142 on Letterboxd’s Top 250 films of all time. A mom discovers her kid is acting strangely, and suspects something happened at school; she interrogates his teacher, and a Rashomon-esque tangled web of truth emerges, wherein different characters remember events in differing ways. Who is correct? I guess we’ll find out. Sounds cool; let’s watch.

After that is The Fall (2006), a surreal fantasy about a guy in a hospital who tells a tale of an island of heroes, villains, and magic to a little girl in the bed next to his, to cajole her into retrieving pills for him. She lets her imagination runs wild, and soon, the tale starts to bleed into her reality. This film is by far the best-regarded work of Tarsem Singh, who is otherwise known for The Cell (2000) and Mirror Mirror (2012). Rave reviews across the board for this one, so 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:

• Monster: https://letterboxd.com/film/monster-2023/
• The Fall: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-fall/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Monster: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/1070186
• The Fall: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/22750

CWs for Monster:

• Dead animals.
• Death of cat.
• Death of child.
• Self-harm.
• Someone is hit by a car.
• Blood.

CWs for The Fall:

• Drug use.
• Drug addiction.
• Alcohol abuse.
• Old film clips showing cruelty to animals.
• Deaths of animals.
• Death of pet.
• Bugs.
• Someone is held underwater.
• Someone is physically restrained.
• Someone struggles to breathe.
• Body horror.
• Amputation.
• Tooth damage.
• Unconsciousness.
• Broken bones.
• Torture.
• Someone falls to their death.
• Death of child.
• Someone wets themselves.
• Suicide.
• Drug overdose.
• Kidnapping.
• Death of parent.
• Spitting.
• Needles.
• Hospital scene.
• Self-harm.
• Suicide attempt.
• Crying baby.
• Shaky cam.
• Flashing lights.
• Black character dies first.
• Blood.
• Gun violence.

Links to movies:

• Monster: https://tankie.tube/w/h65PhqsbhyKvsSFxeGvWNm
• The Fall: https://tankie.tube/w/1eF4155Z5JbxxC3URokE9e

IMPORTANT NOTE: please use a VPN whenever visiting Hextube, or anywhere else on the internet, for that matter. Protect your privacy.

For this edition of Saturday Anime Night, the people demanded more Sailor Moon, and so, we’re continuing on, with episodes 73 through 78 of the 1992 series, the definitive magical-girl anime. This is the completely unabridged, unexpurgated, uncensored, Japanese version of the show, including everything that the English dub butchered, altered, and/or cut, which is quite a bit. Tonight’s episodes see the continuation of the Black Moon Clan arc, including a two-part showdown with clan ringleader Rubeus, and the debut of Sailor Pluto.

After that is Alice (1988), a Czech stop-motion fairy tale that asks, “What if Alice in Wonderland was a little…twisted?” It reimagines the tale into a creepy dark fantasy full of unsettling imagery (though nothing R-rated) and spooky situations. It is generally considered the magnum opus of animator Jan Svankmajer, and is his best-known work, as well as one of the most famous animated films from the Eastern Bloc.

We’ll start 8PM EST on Hextube, right here: https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Sailor Moon: Sorry, not on Letterboxd. Here’s the MAL page: https://myanimelist.net/anime/530/Bishoujo_Senshi_Sailor_Moon
• Alice: https://letterboxd.com/film/alice-1988/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Sailor Moon: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103369/parentalguide?ref_=tt_stry_pg
• Alice: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/450159

CWs for Sailor Moon:

• Nudity.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Bath scenes.
• Age-gap romance.
• Panty shots.
• Cutting of flesh.
• Blood and gore.
• Animal abuse.
• Children in peril.
• Smoking.
• Alcohol abuse.
• Sexual harassment of schoolgirls.
• Kissing.
• Deaths of parents.

CWs for Alice:

• Child abuse.
• Child endangerment.
• Dead animals.
• Someone wets themselves.
• Claustrophobia.
• Crying baby.
• Shaky cam.
• Flashing lights.

Links to movies:

• Sailor Moon episode 73: https://tankie.tube/w/wZwfd9f2zyDFJQAaQUgKHo
• Sailor Moon episode 74: https://tankie.tube/w/h6tkvNvPTsVaWGi1xNoi7f
• Sailor Moon episode 75: https://tankie.tube/w/bqfv3x8i6QDeNKc6x9UwQU
• Sailor Moon episode 76: https://tankie.tube/w/5Hp8upTMnbPt5AKvQ6xsxY
• Sailor Moon episode 77: https://tankie.tube/w/ryeGDiSmvp4TnwJziPsvym
• Sailor Moon episode 78: https://tankie.tube/w/cNZ6WFGEuLDsneRFzcWFYa
• Alice: https://tankie.tube/w/o3S8Qp2m11dEcpu8FzRhKt

IMPORTANT NOTE: please use a VPN whenever visiting Hextube, or anywhere else on the internet, for that matter. Protect your privacy.

For this Friday Movie Night, we’re starting off with The Ascent (1977), one of the most highly-acclaimed of all Soviet films, and the magnum opus of director Larisa Shipetko (wife of Elem Klimov of Come and See [1985] fame.) Wow, Soviet women’s cinema, and it’s the 88th-highest-rated film on Letterboxd’s Top 250? We should check this out. The story concerns a pair of partisans who have to go behind enemy lines to retrieve supplies for their comrades. Things get dicey from there. War is hell etc.

After that is Being There (1979), a magical-realist tale of a simple, sheltered gardener (played by Peter Sellers of Pink Panther / Dr. Stranglelove fame) who wanders into the wider world after the death of his boss, and quickly finds himself moving up the ranks of the business and political elite using nothing but his homespun advice and naïve charm. I have been told this is “Forrest Gump, but good”. Okay, we’ll give it a shot. Director is Hal Ashby, who is otherwise best-known for Harold and Maude (1971).

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

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

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• The Ascent: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-ascent/
• Being There: https://letterboxd.com/film/being-there/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• The Ascent: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/107702
• Being There: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/25079

CWs for The Ascent:

• Deaths of animals.
• Carnism.
• Hanging.
• Torture.
• Nazis.
• Gun violence.
• Blood.
• War crimes.
• Sad ending.

CWs for Being There:

• A character is heard masturbating.
• References to sex.
• Smoking.
• Someone dies of illness.
• Unstable reality.

Links to movies:

• The Ascent: https://tankie.tube/w/wkGHK3KbgYD18hRyt3vGq1
• Being There: https://tankie.tube/w/d5LVA56ief7X5ATAfuzduE

IMPORTANT NOTE: please use a VPN whenever visiting Hextube, or anywhere else on the internet, for that matter. Protect your privacy.

For this Sunday Kino Night, we’re starting with Samurai Rebellion (1967), one of the best-regarded jidaigeki films of all time and one of the foremost works of renowned Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi (who is best-known for Harakiri [1962]). A feudal lord grows tired of his mistress and demands she wed the son of one of his samurai retainers (played by Kurosawa regular Toshiro Mifune.) The son and the mistress fall in love, but then, the lord decides he wants her back, and takes her. The samurai then decides to rebel against his master and rescue her. Dudes are gonna have to rock. Currently ranked #215 on Letterboxd’s Top 250 films of all time.

After that is All of Us Strangers (1983), a gay romance-fantasy about a pair of London dudes who start woogin’, only for one of them to discover, upon returning to their childhood home, that his dead parents have come back to life and have not aged a day in decades. What’s going on here? I guess we’ll just have to watch and find out. This one has received rave reviews, and it is, so far, it is the most popular work of director Andrew Haigh, who is otherwise best-known for Weekend (2011).

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

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

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Samurai Rebellion: https://letterboxd.com/film/samurai-rebellion/
• All of Us Strangers: https://letterboxd.com/film/all-of-us-strangers/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Samurai Rebellion: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061847/parentalguide?ref_=tt_stry_pg
• All of Us Strangers: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/1048937

CWs for Samurai Rebellion:

• Brief nudity.
• Blood.
• Cutting of flesh.
• Stabbing.
• Gun violence.

CWs for All of Us Strangers:

• Nudity.
• Sex.
• Someone leaves without saying goodbye.
• Drug use.
• Drug addiction.
• Alcohol abuse.
• Unconsciousness.
• Drug overdose.
• Death of parent.
• Jump scares.
• Ghosts.
• Bath scene.
• PTSD.
• Mental illness.
• Hallucinations.
• Suicide.
• Unstable reality.
• Someone has a meltdown.
• Anxiety attacks.
• Claustrophobia.
• Jump scares.
• Shaky cam.
• Screaming.
• Obscene language.
• Flashing lights.
• Homophobic slurs.
• Death of LGBT person.
• Age-gap romance.
• Discussion of religion.
• Car crash.
• Sad ending.

Links to movies:

• Samurai Rebellion: https://tankie.tube/w/qoTBTRrEq45o6YZXpYTt9q
• All of Us Strangers: https://tankie.tube/w/5r78nPUiwshL28NoFFnr3u

IMPORTANT NOTE: please use a VPN whenever visiting Hextube, or anywhere else on the internet, for that matter. Protect your privacy.

For this edition of Saturday Anime Night, the people demanded more Sailor Moon, and so, we’re continuing on, with episodes 67 through 72 of the 1992 series, the definitive magical-girl anime. This is the completely unabridged, unexpurgated, uncensored, Japanese version of the show, including everything that the English dub butchered, altered, and/or cut, which is quite a bit. Tonight’s episodes see the continuation of the Black Moon Clan arc, along with the infamous beach episode where the girls fight dinosaurs.

After that is Marona’s Fantastic Tale (2019), a French cartoon about a heckin’ pupperino’s surreal journey through life, spanning several masters and all sorts of bizarre, impressionistic adventures. Thus far, it is the magnum opus of director Anca Damian; animated features directed by women are rare enough, and this one is highly acclaimed, so let’s check it out.

We’ll start 8PM EST on Hextube, right here: https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Sailor Moon: Sorry, not on Letterboxd. Here’s the MAL page: https://myanimelist.net/anime/530/Bishoujo_Senshi_Sailor_Moon
• Marona’s Fantastic Tale: https://letterboxd.com/film/maronas-fantastic-tale/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Sailor Moon: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103369/parentalguide?ref_=tt_stry_pg
• Marona’s Fantastic Tale: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/47653

CWs for Sailor Moon:

• Nudity.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Bath scenes.
• Age-gap romance.
• Panty shots.
• Cutting of flesh.
• Blood and gore.
• Animal abuse.
• Children in peril.
• Smoking.
• Alcohol abuse.
• Sexual harassment of schoolgirls.
• Kissing.
• Deaths of parents.

CWs for Marona’s Fantastic Tale:

• Deaths of dog.
• Animal abuse.
• Needles.
• Hospital scene.
• Sad ending.

Links to movies:

• Sailor Moon episode 67: https://tankie.tube/w/i2nXaPoQEFSAWoQgVDdTzL
• Sailor Moon episode 68: https://tankie.tube/w/dUcBNGa9mgttomcXUdoMwm
• Sailor Moon episode 69: https://tankie.tube/w/v3UmH96Kvtv1AX2xAEWZwV
• Sailor Moon episode 70: https://tankie.tube/w/v92XEjrJXkpxYpNg8NfCUj
• Sailor Moon episode 71: https://tankie.tube/w/uSbYHbiXxfAWZLNBAuRNSm
• Sailor Moon episode 72: https://tankie.tube/w/oveArREhC3PAWBDmYmiv6K
• Marona's Fantastic Tale: https://tankie.tube/w/jdcUXQhoizgBSnmmfmZMRy

IMPORTANT NOTE: please use a VPN whenever visiting Hextube, or anywhere else on the internet, for that matter. Protect your privacy.

For this Friday Movie Night, we’re starting off with The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), a Western starring Brad Pitt as the famous outlaw, and Casey Affleck as the wide-eyed recruit into his gang who comes to resent him. For an idea of where the plot goes, please refer to the title. Director Andrew Dominik is otherwise a mixed bag, having done the crappy Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde (2023) and cult crime thriller Killing Them Softly (2012); this is his critical and commercial peak so far. One of the highest-rated Westerns on Letterboxd.

After that is Walking the Streets of Moscow (1964), one of the most optimistic Soviet films ever, and one of the highest-rated on Letterboxd. Imagine a world where communism won, and the proletariat all cooperated with each other for the greater good, and everything was clean, welcoming, and awesome. A young man walks the idyllic streets over the course of a day, meets nice people, and helps a friend get married. That’s it. One of the gentlest movies ever. It is Communism Rocks: The Movie. Stalin shouldn’t have stopped at Berlin. This is one of the best-known and best-regarded films of director Georgiy Daneliya, who is otherwise known for the sci-fi satire Kin-dza-dza! (1986).

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

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

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-assassination-of-jesse-james-by-the-coward-robert-ford/
• Walking the Streets of Moscow: https://letterboxd.com/film/walking-the-streets-of-moscow/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/36531
• Walking the Streets of Moscow: Sorry, nothing on DTDD or IMDB.

CWs for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford:

• A grown man looks up a young girl’s skirt.
• Child abuse.
• Deaths of animals.
• Snakes.
• Torture.
• Death of parent.
• Suicide.
• N-word.
• Racism.
• Gun violence.

CWs for Walking the Streets of Moscow:

• Absolutely nothing listed on DTDD or IMDB. It’s just that pleasant.
• Sad ending, in the sense that this is what we lost.

Links to movies:

• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford: https://tankie.tube/w/gHHLpdmLUA8LkiSSorsgbp
• Walking the Streets of Moscow: https://tankie.tube/w/ucUPBbjTQJLSMUnTfGd6S9

including the entire nation of Ireland apparently.