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For this Sunday Kino Night, we’re starting A Visitor to a Museum (1989), a Soviet sci-fi/horror set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland in which deranged mutants menace the last remaining vestiges of humanity. One man decides to tour a ruined museum from the before-times now submerged underwater, and various weird and spooky things happen tthere. What will he find? We’ll have to watch and see. Director is Konstantin Lopushanky, who worked with Andrei Tarkovsky on Stalker (1979), which probably explains the similar premise. He is otherwise best-known for another post-apocalypse movie, Dead Man’s Letters (1986). Yes, he made two of these.

After that is comedy What Happened Was (1994), the directorial debut of character actor Tom Noonan, and by far his best-regarded work. The premise is simple: a man goes to a woman’s apartment for their first date, having already been acquainted as co-workers at a law firm; they have dinner, and it goes about as awkwardly as possible, with various social faux-pas committed along the way. Second Hand Embarrassment: The Movie. Rave reviews from critics, though, and it is apparently one of the favorite films of Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich [1999], Synecdoche New York [2008].) Premise looks good; let’s watch.

And uhh, how about some more Pokemon? The seventh movie, Destiny Deoxys (2004), is coming your way. As the title suggests, Deoxys is in this one.

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

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

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• A Visitor to a Museum: https://letterboxd.com/film/a-visitor-to-a-museum/
• What Happened Was: https://letterboxd.com/film/what-happened-was/
• Pokemon: Destiny Deoxys: https://letterboxd.com/film/pokemon-destiny-deoxys/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• A Visitor to a Museum: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/89107
• What Happened Was: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/18671
• Pokemon: Destiny Deoxys: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435286/parentalguide?ref_=tt_stry_pg

CWs for A Visitor to a Museum:

• Post-apocalypse.
• Haunted house.
• Body horror.
• Blood and gore.
• PTSD.
• Panic attacks.
• Claustrophobia.
• Hallucinations.
• Sad ending.

CWs for What Happened Was:

• Second-hand embarrassment.
• Socially-awkward protagonist.
• Profanity.
• References to sex.

CWs for Pokemon: Destiny Deoxys:

• Death of child.
• Death of animal.
• Child endangerment.
• Animal cruelty.
• Cartoon violence.
• Explosions.
• Torture.
• Existentialism.
• Bugs.
• Someone is physically restrained.

Links to movies:

• A Visitor to a Museum: https://tankie.tube/w/2y4wctykKd9GQhASNSAKE9
• What Happened Was: https://tankie.tube/w/9C8bXMghTYSVAt99NrYVfm
• Pokemon: Destiny Deoxys: https://tankie.tube/w/3zsQfxd9qDLpMnuV8estgC