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For this Friday Movie Night, first up is This Is England (2006), a British hood film about a boy from a dysfunctional family in a poor neighborhoord during the Thatcher era who makes some new friends one day, they being members of the local skinhead gang. Uh-oh. He has some good times with the blokes, but then the Nazi stuff comes out to the fore, and things start getting yikes. This is the most popular film of director Shane Meadows, and generally considered his magnum opus; he made a TV series based on it, too, which is apparently also pretty good. Looks like another worthy entry in the God Damn the UKKK canon.

After that is Yoyo (1965), a French slapstick comedy about an heir to a fortune who loses his inheritance in the 1929 stock market crash and decides to become a clown to get his groove back. The film follows him from the silent-film era to the 1960s, and its aesthetic gradually evolves along the way, mirroring the evolution of film in the interim (such as, for example, introducing sound about 30 minutes in.) Comic antics ensue, in a feature-length homage to Charlie Chaplin, the Marx brothers, and Jacques Tati. This is the best-known and mostly-highly-rated film of director Pierre Ataix, who is otherwise pretty obscure. Even this film was just recently unearthed by Criterion, and is just now gaining a cult following. At any rate, it looks cool, so we’ll give it a whirl.

Finally, for anyone who is still awake afterward, we’ll watch the twelfth Pokemon movie, Pokemon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life (2009). The Poke-marathon continues.

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

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

Be there, comrades!

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CWs for This Is England:

  • Nazis.
  • Gaslighting.
  • Child abuse.
  • Drug use.
  • Drug addiction.
  • Alcohol abuse.
  • Sexual assault: “A 15-year-old girl kisses a 12-year-old boy, and asks if he wants to ‘suck her tits’. This is not seen on-screen, and whether he complies is unclear.”
  • Sexualization of minor (see above.)
  • Discussion of pedophilia. Not depicted.
  • Bullying.
  • Someone is physically restrained.
  • Shaving.
  • Someone struggles to breathe.
  • Amputation.
  • Tooth damage.
  • Unconsciousness.
  • Broken bones.
  • Blood and gore.
  • Ableist slurs.
  • Death of parent.
  • Cheating.
  • Spitting.
  • Homophobia.
  • Needles.
  • Profanity.
  • Someone is watched without their knowledge.
  • Fat jokes.
  • Black character beaten up by skinheads.
  • Antisemitism.
  • Hate speech.
  • Racial slurs.
  • Sex.
  • Male character ridiculed for crying.
  • Honking horns.
  • Sad ending.

CWs for Yoyo:

  • Slapstick violence.
  • Poverty.
  • Animal cruelty.

CWs for Pokemon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life:

  • Death of animal.
  • Child endangerment.
  • Animal cruelty.
  • Cartoon violence.
  • Explosions.
  • Torture.
  • Existentialism.
  • Bugs.
  • Someone is physically restrained.

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