Updates + Twitch Stream Friday 5/26! (Patreon)

First off, update!  I don't know about you, but things have been quiet because I've been lost in Hyrule for the last two weeks and pretty much lost my connection with the real world in the process. I really, really, really want to write about Tears of the Kingdom by the end of the month to thus be timely with y'all finishing it, but's actually been a weird amount of pressure? Because big Video Games are loooong and also that meant I wasn't going to have time to write about Fast X or Blackberry (I'm a long time fan of Matthew Johnson's work), so hopefully I'll get to those later. Plus, at the same time I've been working on a MASSIVE Barry piece that I'll hopefully get up a few days after the finale on Sunday. Couple that with Strike stuff and NBA playoffs and it's just constantly felt like there aren't enough hours in the dang day. 

But that also means I haven't had a chance to Twitch stream and I really wanted to get one in by the end of the month! Specifically, I want to do one with a theme that I've really, really, really wanted to do for a couple years now. After the silliness of animals last month, that's right it's time for...

THE HIGH BROW MOVIE STREAM. 

Let's get thoughtful and contemplative up in this shit! Though I'm also consciously picking movies that are vivid, strange, visceral, and compelling, but I honestly have no idea how this will go (especially as I haven't seen a lot of these since college). Either I'm excited to share some really wonderful stuff.

The stream will be THIS Friday 5/26 over at https://www.twitch.tv/filmcrithulk and it will start at noon. All times pacific!

With that, let's go to the HIGH BROW MOVIE LINE UP!!!!!

Noon - Pre-Show!

1220pm - Beauty and the Beast (1946) - Cocteau's adaptation of the famous story is simply one of the most beautiful films ever made. There are STILL some shots that impress with the vivid technique. Plus, it's one of those films I saw as a kid that made fall in love with older films. I can think of no better way to kick things off.

155pm - Persona (1966) - For decades, it seemed like whenever someone wanted to make fun of "art films" they would shoot it in Black and White and basically ape the chess scene from Bergman's The Seventh Seal. But it is his 1966 film Persona that more closely plays to this purely artistic exploration of identity and selfhood. And it perfectly works as one of those HMMM SYMBOLISM YOU SAY movies for budding film nerds. I'm excited.

320pm - Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962) - Let's let it fly with some beautiful ennui! Agnes Varda's seminal classic captures the modern sensibility by juxtaposing a world dressed up to perfection with the aching, devastating feelings that hide under the surface. Can't wait to be SAD with y'all.

450pm  - Touki Bouki (1973) - Next we're gonna wake things up with what is widely considered to be Africa's first experimental film. But Djibril Diop Mambéty's road movie is a funny, odd, and a wonderful little miracle that's kind of doing its own little Odyssey story.

620pm - The Mirror (1975) - There was no way we weren't showing a Tarkovsky movie (he's one of my faves) and this movie, which is largely just a stream of consciousness trip through memories of his mother, felt like the ideal one to pair with the other films in the series... Also, it's the shortest film so that helps in these marathon things.

810pm - Certified Copy (2010) - Of all the films in the stream, this recent-ish work from Abbas Kiarostami is the one I'm most excited to watch people discover. Especially going along in the chat for all the "wait, what?" reactions, not that it's even really trying to confuse you (if you've seen, don't say a word). Also don't read a thing about it. I'm putting it in the primetime slot for a reason. Don't miss it. 

1000pm - Holy Motors (2012) - Probably the most seen of the entries in this lineup, but it's gonna be electric. I can't wait for new people to discover Leos Carax's esoteric, episodic, yet terrifically entertaining modern masterpiece 

1200am -  Secret Screening #1 - Warning, it's about horniness.

140am - Secret Screening #2 - Double warning, it's about leadership

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