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For this Friday Movie Night, first up is Love & Pop, the live-action directorial debut of renowned auteur Hideaki Anno, whose Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995), Ritual (2000), Cutie Honey (2004), and Shin Godzilla (2016) we have previously watched. It follows a teenage girl’s single-day quest to buy an expensive ring before a shop closes for the day. She tries various schemes, but eventually settles on the only one likely to succeed: a dive into the world of enjo kosai (compensated dating), in which older men pay her for companionship. One of the highest-rated Japanese films on Letterboxd.

Between the features, we will watch all three Soviet Winnie the Pooh (1969-72) cartoons. They are generally considered some of the best Eastern Bloc animations, and the best-known works of director Fyodor Khitruk, who also did the acclaimed short Film, Film, Film (1968), which we have not yet watched.

After that is The Incident (1967), a thriller starring Tony Musante and Martin Sheen as a pair of hoodlums who terrorize the riders of the New York City subway, taking a car hostage and unleashing their sadistic whims upon its habitants. Will the passengers rise up against these two ruffians? I guess we’ll find out. This is the best-known and best-regarded work of director Larry Peerce, and is considered an early classic of the New Hollywood school of filmmaking.

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

https://blorp.bot.nu/o/visual_cuisine

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Love & Pop: https://letterboxd.com/film/love-pop/
• Winnie the Pooh: https://letterboxd.com/film/winnie-the-pooh-1969/ , https://letterboxd.com/film/winnie-the-pooh-goes-visiting/ , and https://letterboxd.com/film/winnie-the-pooh-and-a-busy-day/
• The Incident: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-incident/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Love & Pop: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/960726
• The Incident: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/31319

CWs for Love & Pop:

• Shaky cam.
• Flashing lights.
• Domestic violence.
• Stalking.
• Sexual assault: a girl is threatened by a would-be assaulter with a taser, but nothing ultimately happens.
• Discussion of sexual assault.
• Sexual harassment of schoolgirls.
• Sexualization of minor.
• Eating disorder.
• Misophonia.
• Age-gap romance.
• Nudity.
• Sex.
• Objectification of female characters.

CWs for The Incident:

• Mention of sexual assault.
• Sexual assault: the hoodlums touch some of the passengers without their consent.
• Woman brutalized for spectacle.
• Domestic violence.
• Blood and gore.
• Jokes about sexual assault on men.
• Homophobic slurs.
• Shaky cam.
• N-word.
• Ableist slurs.
• Hate speech.
• Drug addiction.
• Stabbing.
• Alcohol abuse.
• Homelessness.
• Slapping of woman.

Links to movies:

• Love & Pop: https://tankie.tube/w/dkfVnhFre4f8NCqgKZ1dau
• Winnie the Pooh: https://tankie.tube/w/tB5h47m3kJny6M1B9PqQSb
• The Incident: https://tankie.tube/w/cTVRyHaumLMhSUm7NEvwoB