For this Sunday Slop Night, first up is Jean-Pierre Melville’s classic heist film Le Cercle Rouge (1970), which is often considered one of the best French movies of all time. A group of French thieves plot to steal some jewels; will they pull off the job? I guess we’ll find out. Everyone liked Melville’s Army of Shadows (1969), so this one seems like a safe bet. After that is Cheryl Dunye’s The Watermelon Woman (1996), allegedly the first feature film directed by an “out” black lesbian. It is a comedy about a black video store worker seeking to make a movie about a 1930s black actress; she finds love along the way. It has an extremely high rating on Letterboxd. Let’s give it a whirl.

We’ll start at 9PM EST on Hextube, right here: https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Le Cercle Rouge: https://letterboxd.com/film/le-cercle-rouge/
• The Watermelon Woman: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-watermelon-woman/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Le Cercle Rouge: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/49446
• The Watermelon Woman: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/21835

CWs for Le Cercle Rouge:

• Spiders.
• Snakes.
• Bugs.
• Alcohol abuse.
• Drug addiction.
• Shaving.
• Claustrophobia.
• Sad ending.
• Blood and gore.
• Gun violence.

CWs for The Watermelon Woman:

• Drug use.
• Shaky cam.
• N-word.
• Misgendering.
• Death of LGBT person.
• Ableism.
• Hate speech.
• Sex scene.
• Nudity.

Links to movies:

• Le Cercle Rouge: https://vimeo.com/852226260
• The Watermelon Woman: https://vimeo.com/852805736