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For this Sunday Kino Night, first up is The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), a classic melodrama best described as Citizen Kane (1941) meets Sunset Blvd. (1950). A ruthless Holly producer (played by Kirk Douglas) manipulates and connives his way to the top of the Hollywood hierarchy, alienating his friends and family along the way. The film recounts his rise in flashback form from the perspectives of the people he used. Will karma come back to bite his sleazy ass? I guess we’ll have to watch to find out. Director is Vincente Minnelli; we have not watched any of his films on Hextube yet, but he is best-known for the musicals An American in Paris (1951) and Meet Me in St. Louis (1944). This one is considered perhaps his magnum opus.
Next is My Friends (1975), a slapstick comedy from Italian maestro Mario Monicelli, whose labor drama The Organizer (1963) and heist farce Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958) we previously watched. A group of four middle-aged manchildren don’t want to grow up, and so they organize a bunch of immature, silly pranks in a desperate attempt to prolong their youth. Wacky antics ensue. This was a huge hit In Italy at the time, spawning two sequels. It is a boomer comedy classic there, along the lines of, oh, Blazing Saddles (1974) or Caddyshack (1980) in the US. 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:
- The Bad and the Beautiful: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-bad-and-the-beautiful/
- My Friends: https://letterboxd.com/film/my-friends-1975/
Doesthedogdie.com links:
- The Bad and the Beautiful: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044391/parentalguide?ref_=tt_stry_pg
- My Friends: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072637/parentalguide/?ref_=tt_ql_stry_4
CWs for The Bad and the Beautiful:
- Kissing.
- Smoking.
- Alcohol.
- Drunkenness.
CWs for My Friends:
- Objectification of female characters.
- Misogyny.
- Nudity.
- References to sex.
- Slapstick violence.
- Profanity.
- Sad ending.
Links to movies:
- The Bad and the Beautiful: https://tankie.tube/w/cznoLvmhqRUuQnyP7FrV6E
- My Friends: https://tankie.tube/w/kLyfDTqCxGRi1BQLUazv1n
