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For this Sunday Kino Night, first up is Medium Cool (1969), a political thriller about a news reporter (Robert Forster) covering the political violence around the 1968 Democratic National Convention. He finds himself personally involved when he discovers that his network has been feeding the FBI information about the impoverished minority neighborhoods in his reports, feeding the feds his footage to identify political dissidents. Drama ensues as the scoop’s moral dilemma escalates. This is the best-known and best-regarded film of ciematogrphar-turned-director Haskell Wexler; he is a one-hit wonder.

After that is 20th Century Girl (2019), a Korean romance set in 1999, centering on a girl who collects information about her best friend’s crush, only to find that, uh-oh, she’s falling for him too. How will this love triangle be resolved? Will anything get in the way? I guess we’ll find out. This is the only feature film to date from director Bang Woo-ri, and is the most popular Korean film on Letterboxd directed by a woman. Great reviews for this, so let’s give it a whirl.

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 Medium Cool:

  • Nudity.
  • Sex.
  • Beatings.
  • Police brutality.
  • Racism.
  • Profanity.
  • Alcohol.
  • Smoking.

CWs for 20th Century Girl:

  • Kissing.
  • Vomiting.
  • Hospital scene.
  • Shaky cam.
  • Blood and gore.
  • Sad ending.

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