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For this Sunday Kino Night, we’re starting with the Japanese thriller The Face of Another (1966), one of the most highly-regarded films of renowned auteur Hiroshi Teshigahara. A man’s face is blown off in an accident, and he has his doctor give him a new face. Uh-oh! He got the Joker face, and starts becoming the mask. His turn toward villainy begins. This is considered one of the all-time classics of Japanese cinema, currently ranking at #248 on Letterboxd’s Top 250 films of all time. Looks neat; let’s watch.

After that is Billy Elliot (2000), a British dramedy about a boy who discovers his love for ballet. The only problem is that he’s from a working-class family during the miners’ strike of 1984, and his father holds some less-than-enlightened views on male dancers. This film received three Oscar nomnations, including for Best Director and Original Screenplay. Director is Stephen Daldry, a perennial maker of Oscar slush like The Hours (2002) and The Reader (2008). However, pretty much everyone agrees this is his best work, and I’m a sucker for labor-themed movies, so we’ll check it out.

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

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

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• The Face of Another: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-face-of-another/
• Billy Elliot: https://letterboxd.com/film/billy-elliot/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• The Face of Another: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/44583
• Billy Elliot: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/8914

CWs for The Face of Another:

• Gaslighting.
• Implied sexual assault of woman by Jokerfied protagonist. Not really depicted, though.
• Cheating.
• Mental institution scene.
• Hospital scene.
• Misophonia.
• Body dysmorphica.
• Suicide.
• Shaky cam.
• Ableist language.
• “Sexual content”. Seems pretty non-explicit to me, unless I missed something.
• Incest.
• Sad ending.
• Blood.
• Drowning.

CWs for Billy Elliot:

• Stalking.
• Domestic violence.
• Capitalism.
• Chld abuse.
• Alcoholism.
• Shaving.
• Dementia.
• Blood.
• Death of parent.
• Cheating.
• Destruction of child’s toy.
• Ghosts.
• Spitting.
• Anxiety attack.
• Homophobic slurs.

Links to movies:

• The Face of Another: https://tankie.tube/w/3R1f5syaKp27EonSysQx1J
• Billy Elliot: https://tankie.tube/w/2rd2tKEZqJ9nUTWvtJLarJ