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For this Sunday Kino Night, first up is Time of the Gypsies (1988), a Serbian black comedy about a young Roma man who discovers he has telekinetic powers, which comes in handy in the crumbling (and increasingly neoliberalizing) hellscape that is 1980s Yugoslavia. He uses his powers in his quest to get rich quick, but the criminal underworld threatens to undo him; darkly-comic antics ensue. Director is renowned auteur Emir Kusturica, whose Black Cat White Cat (1998) and Underground (1995) we previously watched; those were both great, funny films, and this appears to be in the same vein. One of the highest-rated Serbian films on Letterboxd.

Next is The Browning Version (1951), an extremely British drama about an aging professor who is forced to retire early due to a heart condition. He is at first content with his lot, only to discover that his wife is cheating on him, his students think he’s a joke, and his colleagues have secretly despised him for years. Cue midlife crisis as he tries to repair his ego and reassure himself that his life has meant something. Arguably the magnum opus of prolific director Anthony Asquith, who is otherwise best-known for Pygmalion (1938). Considered one of the best British films of the 1950s.

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

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

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Time of the G*psies: https://letterboxd.com/film/time-of-the-gypsies/
• The Browning Version: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-browning-version/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Time of the G*psies: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/36909
• The Browning Version: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043362/parentalguide/?ref_=tt_stry_pg

CWs for Time of the G*psies:

• Sexual assault: at approximately 61 minutes in, a woman is forced to undress and is implied to be r*ped afterward. I have skimmed the movie and I don’t think any SA is directly shown.
• Death of parent.
• Kidnapping.
• Spitting.
• Hospital scene.
• Childbirth.
• Sad ending.
• Nudity.
• Sex.
• Stabbing.
• Blood.
• Someone struggles to breathe.
• Gun violence.
• Torture.
• Death by falling.
• Profanity.
• Smoking.
• Alcohol.

CWs for The Browning Version:

• British people.
• Cheating.
• Existential crisis.
• Depression.
• Smoking.
• Alcohol.
• Failed marriage.

Links to movies:

• Time of the G*psies: https://tankie.tube/w/25T6UMnuKx8x1DjoX3C5Xf
• The Browning Version: https://tankie.tube/w/jGjYYR65JB8MrJjNCFg5td