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For this Sunday Kino Night, first up is Ritual (2000), the best-known and best-reviewed of Neon Genesis Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno’s live-action films. It centers on the attempts of an amateur filmmaker to connect with a teenage girl who he spots wandering the streets and muttering the same phrase every day. Romance ensues, along with Anno’s signature monologues on existentialism and so on. Looks pretty neat, so let’s check it out. Currently ranked #224 on Letterboxd’s Top 250 films of all time.

Next is The Roaring Twenties (1939), one of the best-regarded films of old-timey gangster star James Cagney. He is one of a trio of World War I veterans who return home and struggle to find work, only for a new opportunity to show up with the advent of Prohibition. They get into the burgeoning racket in illicit alcohol, which brings them into conflict with the feds. Will they get a happy ending? Probably not. Director is Raoul Walsh, who also did the equally well-regarded Cagney vehicle White Heat (1949).

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

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

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Ritual: https://letterboxd.com/film/ritual-2000/
• The Roaring Twenties: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-roaring-twenties/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Ritual: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0269856/parentalguide/?ref_=tt_ql_stry_4
• The Roaring Twenties: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031867/parentalguide/?ref_=tt_ov_at_stry_4

CWs for Ritual:

• Nudity.
• Sex.
• Smoking.
• Alcohol.
• Panic attacks.
• Hallucinations.
• Depression.
• Suicidal ideation.

CWs for The Roaring Twenties:

• Gun violence.
• Kissing.
• Smoking.
• Alcohol.
• Blood.
• Fistfighting.
• Sad ending.

Links to movies:

• Ritual: https://tankie.tube/w/joRg9wSt3sfNPTjUwDFmVb
• The Roaring Twenties: https://tankie.tube/w/r3dqswDxdYapgjB9MQQUue