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For this Sunday Kino Night, first up is A Woman Under the Influence (1974), the magnum opus of renowned auteur John Cassavetes, whose Opening Night (1978) we previously watched. Gena Rowlands stars as the eponymous woman, a mentally-unstable housewife whose husband (played by Columbo himself, Peter Falk) decides to check her into a mental hospital. She comes back after a few months, and then they live happily ever after. Not! It’s Cassavetes, so expect a whole lot of domestic melodrama. This is considered one of the best films of the 1970s and one of the definitive entries in the New Hollywood canon; it is currently ranked #62 on Letterboxd’s Top 250 films of all time. Time to finally cross this one off the list.

Next is The Color of Pomegranates (1969), a surreal Soviet biopic of 18th-century Armenian poet Sayat-Nova, presenting his life and his various romances through a series of bizarre, impressionistic scenes, intended to evoke a sensation of “visual poetry”. I’ve seen the screenshots, and they look pretty neat, so let’s watch. In the words of one Letterboxd reviewer, “watching this movie made me feel like I was high.” It is the best-known and best-regarded work of director Sergei Parajanov, and one of the most critically-acclaimed of all Soviet films.

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

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

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• A Woman Under the Influence: https://letterboxd.com/film/a-woman-under-the-influence/
• The Color of Pomegranates: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-color-of-pomegranates/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• A Woman Under the Influence: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/17235
• The Color of Pomegranates: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/37039

CWs for A Woman Under the Influence:

• Domestic violence.
• Gaslighting.
• Child abuse.
• Alcoholism.
• Drunkenness.
• Sexual assault: a man forcefully kisses a woman. Nothing else is depicted, though.
• Self-harm.
• Cheating.
• Electrotherapy.
• Needles.
• Violent mentally-ill person.
• Misophonia.
• Anxiety attacks.
• Claustrophobia.
• Shaky cam.
• Fat jokes.
• Hate speech.
• Ableism.
• Blood.

CWs for The Color of Pomegranates:

• Animal cruelty.
• Deaths of animals.
• Blood and gore.

Links to movies:

• A Woman Under the Influence: https://tankie.tube/w/dyC2UpEUQwrvbAUt17ektH
• The Color of Pomegranates: https://tankie.tube/w/ogqrvMttMXbtDAS7uTMny1