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For this Friday Movie Night, we’re starting off with one of the most highly-regarded Mexican films of all time, The Exterminating Angel (1962). It is a darkly comic satire about a bunch of rich people who go to a dinner party and then find themselves unable to leave; supernatural forces proceed to torment them. The director is renowned surrealist auteur Luis Bunuel (Un Chien Andalou, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie); this may be his magnum opus. After that is our obligatory God Damn America film for the week with Matewan (1987), a highly-acclaimed drama about a coal miners’ strike in 1920s West Virginia, and the attempts of the government and capitalists to break it. This is one of the classics of the worker-solidarity genre. Director is John Sayles, who is otherwise best-known for Lone Star (1996). Looks cool; let’s watch.

We’ll start at 9PM EST on Hextube, right here:

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Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

  • The Exterminating Angel: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-exterminating-angel/
  • Matewan: https://letterboxd.com/film/matewan/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

  • The Exterminating Angel: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/54061
  • Matewan: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093509/parentalguide?ref_=tt_stry_pg

CWs for The Exterminating Angel:

  • Drug use.
  • Deaths of animals.
  • Carnism.
  • Animal abuse.
  • Sexual assault: a man kisses a woman while she sleeps.
  • Shaving.
  • Sentient disembodied hand.
  • Cheating.
  • Self-harm.
  • Suicide.
  • Anxiety attacks.
  • Claustrophobia.
  • Antisemitism.
  • Implied sex.
  • Sad ending.
  • Blood.
  • Gun violence.

CWs for Matewan:

  • Prostitution.
  • Abuse of workers.
  • Poverty.
  • Torture.
  • Slit throat.
  • Gun violence.
  • Profanity.
  • Racial slurs.
  • Alcohol abuse.

Links to movies:

  • The Exterminating Angel: https://vimeo.com/898673861
  • Matewan: https://vimeo.com/898674890