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For this Special Thursday Anti-Imperialism Night, 8PM EST, first up is La Chinoise (1967), centering on a group of French students who discover Maoism and move toward direct action in sparking a communist revolution. Cue sectarian struggle. It is generally credited as a major ideological influence on the May 1968 student uprising in France, which more-or-less shut down the country for a few weeks. I’ll respect that. Director is the master himself, Jean-Luc Godard, whose dystopian sci-fi Alphaville (1965) we recently watched. Looks cool; let’s watch.
After that is the zombie horror-comedy The Return of the Living Dead (1985), an alternate sequel to Night of the Living Dead (1968) made without George Romero’s involvement (he directed Day of the Dead [1985] the same year), due to a rights dispute. Instead, its director is Dan O’Bannon, who is better-known as the writer of Alien (1979) and Total Recall (1990); ths is his only directorial effort of note. A strange gas at a warehouse starts reanimating the dead, and they soon start terrorizing America in their quest to eat brains. Hilarity and spookiness ensue. It s considered one of the best zombie films of all time. Uncritical support to the zombies in their heroic struggle to liberate the world from the genocidal Usian empire.
We’ll start at 8PM EST on Hextube, right here:
https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies
Be there, comrades!
Letterboxd:
- La Chinoise: https://letterboxd.com/film/la-chinoise/
- The Return of the Living Dead: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-return-of-the-living-dead/
Doesthedogdie.com links:
- La Chinoise: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061473/parentalguide/?ref_=tt_ql_stry_4
- The Return of the Living Dead: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/12141
CWs for La Chinoise:
- Nudity.
- Smoking.
- Gun violence.
- Blood.
- Suicide.
CWs for The Return of the Living Dead:
- Death of dog.
- Drug use.
- Blood and gore.
- Zombies.
- Bugs.
- Someone is physically restrained.
- Someone struggles to breathe.
- Cannibalism.
- Someone is burned alive.
- Body horror.
- Amputation.
- Squashed head.
- Broken bones.
- Someone falls down stairs.
- Eye mutilation.
- Jump scares.
- Vomiting.
- Audio gore.
- Needles.
- Claustrophobia.
- Suicide.
- Nudity.
- Sex.
- Objectification of female characters.
- Homelessness.
- Car crash.
- Screeching tires.
- Nuclear explosion.
- Gun violence.
- Sad ending.
Links to movies:
- La Chinoise: https://tankie.tube/w/a6NY1nkHAc7qfsuHQuyttp
- The Return of the Living Dead: https://tankie.tube/w/d8kyVJmcTdDana8pHbaKtb
