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For this Friday Movie Night, we’re watching an African movie, because the whole continent has been pretty much ignored by us so far. It’s Hyenas (1992), a comedy about the most popular guy in a small town, who suddenly becomes not-so-popular when a jilted ex-lover, who has become wealthy, returns for revenge. This is one of the highest-rated African films on Letterboxd, and arguably the best-regarded work of director Djibril Diop Mambety, so let’s watch. After that is The Last Picture Show (1971), one of the most critically-acclaimed films of the 1970s, and one of the crown jewels of the auteur-driven New Hollywood era. It concerns a pair of teenage boys (one being The Dude himself, Jeff Bridges) in a shithole Texas town who desperately want to get away, while engaging in some horny teenager antics on the side. Often considered the magnum opus of director Peter Bogdanovich, whose Paper Moon (1973) we previously watched.

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

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

  • Hyenas: https://letterboxd.com/film/hyenas-1992/
  • The Last Picture Show: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-last-picture-show/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

  • Hyenas: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104467/parentalguide?ref_=tt_stry_pg
  • The Last Picture Show: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/17487

CWs for Hyenas:

  • Discussion of pregnancy.
  • Discussion of prostitution.
  • Alcohol abuse.
  • Smoking.

CWs for The Last Picture Show:

  • Sex.
  • Nudity.
  • Age-gap romance.
  • Cheating.
  • Child abuse.
  • Eye mutilation.
  • Hate speech toward Mexicans.
  • A dude has sex with a prostitute while his friends watch.
  • Kidnapping. Possible sexual abuse, though not depicted.
  • Bottle shattered over man’s head.
  • Blood.
  • Someone is hit by a truck.

Links to movies:

  • Hyenas: https://vimeo.com/885865240
  • The Last Picture Show: https://vimeo.com/886037944