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For this Special Monday Movie Night, our usual host, Grebgreb, has asked to me to fill in, so two more movies are coming your way. First up is Dogtooth (2009), the debut feature of renowned auteur Yorgos Lanthimos, whose films Poor Things (2023), The Lobster (2015), and The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2016) we previously watched. A group of grown siblings have grown up in strict isolation under the control of their diabolical parents, who control even their very language, leaving them unable to express any ideas outside the rigid confines of their country home. Will they rebel and escape? I hope so. Great reviews for this one, so let’s check it out.

Next is Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Prrofession (1973), one of the all-time classics of Soviet comedy, a real boomer touchstone in the way that, say, Blazing Saddles (1974) or Caddyshack (1980) is in the Anglosphere. A petty thief who looks like Ivan the Terrible is transported to the sixteenth century, where he actually becomes Ivan the Terrible, because the real tsar has been transported to 1973, where he takes the thief’s place. Hilarity ensues. This is the best-known and arguably best-regarded film of director Leonid Gaidai, who was one of the USSR’s premiere comedy filmmakers. Looks pretty neat.

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

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

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

  • Dogtooth: https://letterboxd.com/film/dogtooth/
  • Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession: https://letterboxd.com/film/ivan-vasilyevich-changes-his-profession/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

  • Dogtooth: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/9399
  • Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070233/parentalguide?ref_=tt_stry_pg

CWs for Dogtooth:

  • Sexual assault: the adult children perform sexual acts on each other without knowing what they are doing, so consent is absent.
  • Incest.
  • Child abuse.
  • Abusive parents.
  • Gaslightinng.
  • Destruction of child’s toy.
  • Blood and gore.
  • Domestic violence.
  • Woman brutalized for spectacle.
  • Drug use.
  • Cruelty to animals.
  • Dead animals.
  • Cutting of flesh.
  • Body horror.
  • Tooth damage.
  • Broken bones.
  • Torture.
  • Shower scene.
  • Spitting.
  • Self-harm.
  • Violent mentally-ill person.
  • Claustrophobia.
  • Shaky cam.
  • Sex.
  • Nudity.
  • Objectification of female characters.
  • Someone loses their virginity.
  • Sad ending.

CWs for Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession:

  • Slapstick violence.
  • Alcohol.
  • Smoking.

Links to movies:

  • Dogtooth: https://tankie.tube/w/hwtMVFfwapqHKuDbhcLceh
  • Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession: https://tankie.tube/w/ePNvRfidwWwHYNmE4XFfTU