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For this Special Thursday Cinema Night, 8PM EST, there’s no special theme, just two more good flicks. First up is Meet Me in St. Louis, a Christmas musical starring Judy Garland is her second-best-known film role, after The Wizard of Oz (1939). It follows one year in the life of a bougie St. Louis family in 1904, as they anticipate the arrival of the World’s Fair, all the while fearing they might be uprooted to New York. A whole lot of singing, dancing, and romance ensues. Director is Vincente Minnelli, the guy behind The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) and Tea and Sympathy (1956), both of which we previously watched.

After that is The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974), a German mystery-satire about a man who spends the first seventeen years of his life locked in a basement with no outside contact. He is let out upon reaching adulthood, and his bizarre mannerisms clash with the sensibilities of the 1820s German village in which he finds himself. Director is Werner Herzog, whose works have appeared several times on Hextube, among them Aguirre (1972), Stroszek (1977), Bad Lieutenant Port of Call: New Orleans (2008), Nosferatu (1979), and Grizzly Man (2005). This is considered one of his best films, so we’ll give it a whirl.

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

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

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

  • Meet Me in St. Louis: https://letterboxd.com/film/meet-me-in-st-louis/
  • The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-enigma-of-kaspar-hauser/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

  • Meet Me in St. Louis: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/17439
  • The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071691/parentalguide/

CWs for Meet Me in St. Louis:

  • Someone struggles to breathe.
  • Someone falls down stairs.
  • Misophonia.
  • Sudden loud noises.
  • Someone is watched without their knowledge.
  • Honking horns.
  • Blood.

CWs for The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser:

  • Nudity.
  • Beatings.
  • Blood.
  • Stabbing.
  • Cutting of flesh.
  • Autopsy scene.
  • Alcohol.
  • Smoking.

Links to movies:

  • Meet Me in St. Louis: https://tankie.tube/w/k2yQxyvJe6Q68bxYXpyVqX
  • The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser: https://tankie.tube/w/bNrvP3AzPwXq2FGw7RCRWJ