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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
