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For this Sunday Kino Night, first up is The Man Who Sleeps (1974), a French psychological drama about a young man slowly slipping into ever greater degrees of solitude and alienation as he withdraws from the world, seeking to become a perfect automaton with no emotions or human connections. This is considered one of the best French films of the 70s, and the only notable work of one-hit-wonder director Bernard Queysanne.

Next up is The Big Country (1958), an epic Western, starring Gregory Peck, about a land war between two rival frontier families, who threaten to destroy everything that they love rather than refuse to back down. Director is William Wyler, whose films The Children’s Hour (1961) and The Heiress (1949) we previously watched; he apparently intended this film to be read as a left-wing Cold War allegory, with the families standing in for the US and USSR. Sounds cool to me. This is considered one of the best Westerns of all time, so let’s give it a shot.

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

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

Be there, comrades!

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CWs for The Man Who Sleeps:

  • Smoking.
  • Alcohol.
  • Mental illness.
  • Paranoia.

CWs for The Big Country:

  • Kissing.
  • Implied sexual assault. Not depicted, since this is from the 1950s.
  • Gun violence.
  • Misogyny.
  • Blood.
  • Slapping of woman.
  • Fistfighting.
  • Profanity.
  • Smoking.
  • Alcohol.

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