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For this Friday Movie Night, it’s come to this: we’re taking the Tarr pill. First up is Werckmeister Harmonies (2000), the second-best-known film of Hungarian auteur Bela Tarr, who is best-known for the seven-hour Satantango (1994), which we have not watched. In this one, a circus comes to a small, spooky Hungarian town, its main attraction being a stuffed whale carcass. The village gradually goes into a frenzy as everyone comes to see the whale. Things just get weird from there, with the whole film being presented in Tarr’s usual style of long takes of stark black-and-white. It is widely considered one of the best films of the 2000s; it currently ranks #131 on Letterboxd’s Top 250 films of all time. Looks cool; let’s check it out.
After that is Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001), a rock musical about a trans woman who immigrates to the US from Germany to form a band and then rock. Along the way, she tells the story of her former lover and bandmate who stole her songs. It is the best-known and best-regarded film of director John Cameron Mitchell, who has also made a few other LGBT-themed films, such as Shortbus (2006). A lot of critical acclaim for this, so we’ll give it a whirl.
We’ll start at 8PM EST on Hextube, right here:
https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies
Be there, comrades!
Letterboxd:
- Werckmeister Harmonies: https://letterboxd.com/film/werckmeister-harmonies/
- Hedwig and the Angry Inch: https://letterboxd.com/film/hedwig-and-the-angry-inch/
Doesthedogdie.com links:
- Werckmeister Harmonies: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0249241/parentalguide/?ref_=ttrel_ql_stry_4
- Hedwig and the Angry Inch: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/9907
CWs for Werckmeister Harmonies:
- Kissing.
- Profanity.
- Nudity.
- Alcohol.
- Hospital scene.
CWs for Hedwig and the Angry Inch:
- Sexual assault: a babysitter touches a teenage boy’s private parts.
- Implied pedophilia in character backstory, though not shown.
- Implied incest.
- Genital trauma.
- Cheating.
- Deadnaming.
- Hospital scene.
- PTSD.
- Misophonia.
- Body dysphoria.
- Body dysmorphia.
- Anxiety attacks.
- Claustrophobia.
- Crying baby.
- Profanity.
- Flashing lights.
- Broken fourth wall.
- Misgendering.
- Homophobic slurs.
- “Man in a dress” jokes.
- Age-gap romance.
- Sex.
- Nudity.
- Car crash.
- Honking horns.
Links to movies:
- Werckmeister Harmonies: https://tankie.tube/w/iaBLjtqAXRJ38uRTP4LwAy
- Hedwig and the Angry Inch: https://tankie.tube/w/bm12oruJSh1Q4BAzgNhTM6
