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For this Special Tuesday Movie Night, our usual host, Grebgreb, has asked me to fill in, and has left the last episode of Season 4 of the Sopranos for me to show. Very, we will indulge in our weekly gabagool.

After that, since the people demanded more Soviet sci-fi, we’ll watch Dead Man’s Letters (1986), one of the most highly-regarded sci-fi films from the USSR. Taking place in a future wasteland ravaged by nuclear war, a scholar from the before-times attempts to lead a small band of survivors as they live in the basement of a former history museum. He sends out letters to his son in the vain hope of finding him. Surely this will end well. Nuclear war is bad, OK? Imagine Threads (1984) rewritten by someone who regarded it as too optimistic, and you should have a good idea of the tone of this one. Director is Konstantin Lopushansky, whose similarly-themed A Visitor to a Museum (1989) we previously watched.

Next is Bottle Rocket (1996), the debut feature of auteur Wes Anderson. This one lacks almost all of his usual taemarks, instead being a straightforward crime-comedy farce following three dimwitted, eccentric guys (Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson, and Robert Musgrave) who attempt to pull off a robbery and go on the run. Hilarity ensues as their wacky antics spiral out of control. Reviews are solid for this one, 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:

  • Dead Man’s Letters: https://letterboxd.com/film/dead-mans-letters/
  • Bottle Rocket: https://letterboxd.com/film/bottle-rocket-1996/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

  • Dead Man’s Letters: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091759/parentalguide/?ref_=tt_ql_stry_4
  • Bottle Rocket: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/56540

CWs for Dead Man’s Letters:

  • Nudity.
  • Smoking.
  • Blood nnd gore.
  • Nuclear explosions.
  • Suicide.
  • Chronic illness.
  • Dismemberment.
  • Death of child.

CWs for Bottle Rocket:

  • Domestic violence.
  • Shaving.
  • Heart attack.
  • Someone struggles to breathe.
  • Mental institution scene.
  • Hospital scene.
  • Anxiety attacks.
  • Shaky cam.
  • Black guy dies first.
  • Kissing.
  • Sad ending.
  • Blood.
  • Gun violence.

Links to movies:

  • Sopranos S4 E13: https://tankie.tube/w/85ULeY6dEWnJXakYLbiKe5
  • Dead Man’s Letters: https://tankie.tube/w/6HjEvK13zXuiWKvrLds5G1
  • Bottle Rocket: https://tankie.tube/w/cgbChT76TwCU3pMrrNtyaB