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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