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Our Tuesday Sopranos host, Grebgreb, is sick today, and has asked me to fill in for tonight. Doing Sopranos without them felt wrong, so I’m fulfilling a request instead, for one of the all-time classic Hollywood comedies, Some Like It Hot (1959)! One of Billy Wilder’s most beloved films, it follows a pair of men (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon) in the 1920s who are witnesses to a mob massacre, and decide to avoid the gangsters’ ire by skipping town to a beach resort, disguised as women. While there, they meet Marilyn Monroe, and woogin’ commences. Currently ranked #201 on Letterboxd’s Top 250 films of all time.
After that is Cat People (1942), a classic gothic horror-romance about a woman and a man who fall in love, only to be unable to consummate their relationship, due to the lady’s fear that having sex will turn her into a cat and kill her lover. Turns out her home village is filled with weirdos who all believe the same thing. Will she be able to beat the curse? Is it even real? I guess we’ll have to find out. Director is Jacques Tourneur, who is otherwise best-known for Out of the Past (1947) and I Walked with a Zombie (1943). This is one of the best-regarded horror films of the 1940s, so let’s check it out.
Special thanks to Grebgreb for uploading Some Like It Hot in advance.
We’ll start at 8PM EST on Hextube, right here:
https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies
Be there, comrades!
Letterboxd:
- Some Like It Hot: https://letterboxd.com/film/some-like-it-hot/
- Cat People: https://letterboxd.com/film/cat-people/
Doesthedogdie.com links:
- Some Like It Hot: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/16936
- Cat People: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/9102
CWs for Some Like It Hot:
- Alcoholism.
- Drunkenness.
- Sexual harassment of men while disguised as women.
- Cheating.
- Natural bodies of water.
- Shower scene.
- Suicidal ideation.
- Claustrophobia.
- Misgendering. -“Man in dress” jokes.
- Homophobia.
- Sexual innuendos.
- Objectification of female characters.
- Car crash.
- Honking horns.
- Gun violence.
CWs for Cat People:
- Stalking.
- Gaslighting.
- Animal abuse.
- Deaths of animals.
- Death of cat.
- Death of pet.
- Sexual harassment of female character by men.
- Cheating.
- Jump scares.
- Bath scene.
- Sad ending.
- Honking horn.
Links to movies:
- Some Like It Hot: https://tankie.tube/w/wBuEqBziYaRmZuZgRBbVQF
- Cat People: https://tankie.tube/w/uo8xLFKfmk2hJDQhin5VkV
