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For this Sunday Kino Night, first up is Revanche (2008), an Austrian crime thriller about an ex-con Vienna man who begins a relationship with a sex worker and decides to rob a bank to relieve their debts. But uh-oh, things go wrong and he is forced to flee to the country house of his elderly grandfather. Will the cops catch up to him? I guess we’ll find out. This is the only notable film to date of director Gotz Spielmann; he is a one-hit wonder. One of the highest-rated Austrian films on Letterboxd.

Next is Chimes at Midnight (1964), which is Orson Welles’ grand comic tribute to Shakespeare, amalgamating elements from his several of his plays into a new narrative, centered around the rotund, boisterous man-at-arms John Falstaff. Hilarity ensues as this large blowhard butts his way into the political machinations of the English nobility, aided by Welles’ scenery-chewing turn as Falstaff himself. This is considered one of Welles’ best films, and so far, we’ve watched only one of his (The Trial [1962]), so let’s give it a whirl.

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

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

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

  • Revanche: https://letterboxd.com/film/revanche/
  • Chimes at Midnight: https://letterboxd.com/film/chimes-at-midnight/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

  • Revanche: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1173745/parentalguide/?ref_=tt_ql_stry_4
  • Chimes at Midnight: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059012/parentalguide/?ref_=tt_ql_stry_4

CWs for Revanche:

  • Nudity.
  • Sex.
  • Brothel scenes.
  • Blood.
  • Pictures of dead people.
  • Profanity.
  • Alcohol.
  • Smoking.
  • Cocaine.
  • Gun violence.

CWs for Chimes at Midnight:

  • Fat jokes.
  • Nudity.
  • Brothel scenes, though no sex is depicted.
  • Cutting of flesh.
  • Stabbing.
  • Alcohol abuse.

Links to movies:

  • Revanche: https://tankie.tube/w/8BEi8cMjs7uX9RACdCcrJf
  • Chimes at Midnight: https://tankie.tube/w/62jYS7x8jEBKaukKUgYSFF