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For this extra-long edition of Sunday Kino Night, we’re starting with one of the all-time classic French films, A Man Escaped (1956)! It strips the prison film down to its most basic elements, centering on a French Resistance fighter’s attempt to escape a tiny cell under the eyes of his Nazi captors. The director is Robert Bresson, whose donkey tale Au Hasard Balthasar (1966) we previously watched. This is commonly considered his magnum opus, and is a staple of lists of greatest films; it currently ranks #86 on Letterboxd’s Top 250.

After that is Boy and the World (2013), a dialogue-free Brazilian surrealist peace about a boy who leaves his village to find his absent father, and his subsequent journey through the urban, industrial, consumerist hellscape of the modern world. It received rave reviews across the board, and garnered a nomination for Best Animated Feature at the 2015 Oscars. It is the best-known and best-regarded work to date of director Ale Abreu. We were going to watch this last night, but it started after midnight, so everyone went to bed instead. I moved the showing to this evening instead.

Third up is the highly-anticipated highly-acclaimed new blockbuster, Dune Part Two (2024), the second half of Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s epic sci-fi novel. We will be watching a camrip. It is decent quality, though a watermark wanders around the screen for the whole movie. That’s just the price we pay for good early rips, I guess.

We’ll start at 7PM EST on Hextube, right here:

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

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• A Man Escaped: https://letterboxd.com/film/a-man-escaped/
• Boy and the World: https://letterboxd.com/film/boy-the-world/
• Dune Part Two: https://letterboxd.com/film/dune-part-two/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• A Man Escaped: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/41444
• Boy and the World: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3183630/parentalguide?ref_=tt_stry_pg
• Dune Part Two: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/1070684

CWs for A Man Escaped:

• Suicidal ideation.
• Prison.
• Nazis.
• Torture.
• Claustrophobia.
• Blood.

CWs for Boy and the World:

• Strip club.
• Police brutality.
• Capitalism.
• Chld endangerment.

CWs for Dune Part Two:

• Abusive parents.
• Gaslighting.
• Drug use.
• Deaths of animals.
• Snakes.
• Bugs.
• Someone is physically restrained.
• Cutting of flesh.
• Someone struggles to breathe.
• Throat mutilation.
• Someone is crushed to death.
• Someone is burned alive.
• Someone is buried alive.
• Head squashing.
• Unconsciousness.
• Someone has a seizure.
• Torture.
• Someone falls to their death.
• Stabbing.
• Death of parent.
• Jump scares.
• Trypophobia.
• Vomiting.
• Someone is eaten alive.
• Spitting.
• Destruction of priceless artifact.
• Needles.
• Violent mentally-ill person.
• Sudden loud noises.
• Screaming.
• Flashing lights.
• Fetuses.
• Orientalism.
• White savior narrative.
• Ableist languae.
• Discussion of religion.
• Implied sex.
• Nudity.
• Male character ridiculed for crying.
• Fat suit.
• Sad ending.
• Nuclear explosion.
• Blood and gore.

Links to movies:

• A Man Escaped: https://tankie.tube/w/haXDfWccXLUwUNQbkYnEm4
• Boy and the World: https://tankie.tube/w/5vxfFCU2M9Dc6wFrpHdbLu
• Dune Part Two: https://tankie.tube/w/4wmegiWzySPA1E8nGiLsmh