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For this Sunday Kino Night, first up is Laapataa Ladies (2023), a comedy about two arranged brides in rural India who inadvertently swap places on a train, and the wacky antics that ensue from there, including some satire of Indian gender relations and the caste system. This is by far the best-known film to date of Indian feminist director Kiran Rao, and received excellent reviews, so let’s check it out.

Next is Kiss Me Deadly (1955), a noir-thriller about a man who picks up a female hitchhiker, only for the car to be ambushed and the woman tortured to death. The dude goes on a rampage of revenge as he seeks to get to the bottom of the conspiracy, which centers around a briefcase containing a nuclear bomb. Everyone seems to want to get that damn briefcase, so the protagonist joins in the action. Director is Robert Aldrich, who is best-known for Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), though this is considered arguably his magnum opus, and one of the best noirs of the 50s.

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

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

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Kuroneko: https://letterboxd.com/film/laapataa-ladies/
• Kiss Me Deadly: https://letterboxd.com/film/kiss-me-deadly/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Laapataa Ladies: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21626284/parentalguide/?ref_=tt_stry_pg
• Kiss Me Deadly: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048261/parentalguide/?ref_=tt_stry_pg

CWs for Laapataa Ladies:

• Domestic violence.
• A woman is slapped.
• Arranged marriages.
• Profanity.
• Anxiety attacks.
• Stalking.
• Missing loved ones.

CWs for Kiss Me Deadly:

• Kissing.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Torture.
• Hand trauma.
• Fistfighting.
• Car crash.
• Someone is hit by a car.
• Gun violence.

Links to movies:

• Laapataa Ladies: https://tankie.tube/w/h2h2vWJSCKS38LMPtyJL1y
• Kiss Me Deadly: https://tankie.tube/w/o9uriH7W4fKXmjBxFdXGBX