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For this Friday Movie Night, it’s come to this: we’re taking the Tarr pill. First up is Werckmeister Harmonies (2000), the second-best-known film of Hungarian auteur Bela Tarr, who is best-known for the seven-hour Satantango (1994), which we have not watched. In this one, a circus comes to a small, spooky Hungarian town, its main attraction being a stuffed whale carcass. The village gradually goes into a frenzy as everyone comes to see the whale. Things just get weird from there, with the whole film being presented in Tarr’s usual style of long takes of stark black-and-white. It is widely considered one of the best films of the 2000s; it currently ranks #131 on Letterboxd’s Top 250 films of all time. Looks cool; let’s check it out.

After that is Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001), a rock musical about a trans woman who immigrates to the US from Germany to form a band and then rock. Along the way, she tells the story of her former lover and bandmate who stole her songs. It is the best-known and best-regarded film of director John Cameron Mitchell, who has also made a few other LGBT-themed films, such as Shortbus (2006). A lot of critical acclaim for this, 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:

Doesthedogdie.com links:

CWs for Werckmeister Harmonies:

  • Kissing.
  • Profanity.
  • Nudity.
  • Alcohol.
  • Hospital scene.

CWs for Hedwig and the Angry Inch:

  • Sexual assault: a babysitter touches a teenage boy’s private parts.
  • Implied pedophilia in character backstory, though not shown.
  • Implied incest.
  • Genital trauma.
  • Cheating.
  • Deadnaming.
  • Hospital scene.
  • PTSD.
  • Misophonia.
  • Body dysphoria.
  • Body dysmorphia.
  • Anxiety attacks.
  • Claustrophobia.
  • Crying baby.
  • Profanity.
  • Flashing lights.
  • Broken fourth wall.
  • Misgendering.
  • Homophobic slurs.
  • “Man in a dress” jokes.
  • Age-gap romance.
  • Sex.
  • Nudity.
  • Car crash.
  • Honking horns.

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