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For this Friday Movie Night, first up is La Chimera (2023), an adventure film about a supernaturally-talented Br*tish graverobber who reunites with his crew of misfits in 1980s Tuscany in search of a magical door to the underworld. Strange antics ensue. Critics are calling it the film-festival version of Indiana Jones, and indeed, it did win a bunch of awards on the festival circuit; sounds good to me. Director is Alice Rohrwacher, who is otherwise best-known for the similarly magical-realist Happy as Lazzaro (2018). Let’s give it a whirl.

After that is Br*tish working-class slice-of-life I, Daniel Blake (2016), the tale of an aging man who suffers a career-ending injury and has to navigate the hellish state bureaucracy to get his welfare benefits. God Damn the UKKK: The Movie. Director is Ken Loach, whose films Kes (1969) and The Hand That Shakes the Barley (2006) we have already watched; both were hits on Hextube, and this one is also highly-acclaimed, so we’re checking it out.

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

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

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• La Chimera: https://letterboxd.com/film/la-chimera/
• I, Daniel Blake: https://letterboxd.com/film/i-daniel-blake/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• La Chimera: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/787566
• I, Daniel Blake: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5168192/parentalguide?ref_=tt_stry_pg

CWs for La Chimera:

• Someone is buried alive.
• Destruction of priceless artifact.
• Claustrophobia.
• Crying baby.
• Broken fourth wall.
• Homelessness.

CWs for I, Daniel Blake:

• Implied prostitution.
• References to sex.
• Profanity.
• Heart attack.
• Sad ending.

Links to movies:

• La Chimera: https://tankie.tube/w/pmZgYgPQ24rT8Uv132MwbV
• I, Daniel Blake: https://tankie.tube/w/uJP5ovSbc8NuMBSchZTZ9b