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For this Friday Movie Night, first up is Eternity and a Day (1998), a Greek road-trip drama from renowned auteur Theo Angelopoulos, whose Voyage to Cythera (1984) we previously watched. An old, terminally-ill man (Bruno Ganz) meets a young Albanian immigrant boy and decides to take the boy home. Things progress in sometimes-surreal fashion after that as their journey takes a turn for the existentialist. It’s art. It is also considered one of the best Greek films of all time. And one of the best films of the 1990s. Currently ranked #75 on the Letterboxd Top 250.

After that is The Last Detail (1973), a buddy comedy from 70s New Hollywood wunderkind Hal Ashby, who is otherwise best-known known for Harold and Maude (1971), which we have not yet watched. A young Navy delinquent is sent to the brig, but the two officers (one being Jack Nicholson) assigned to bring him to the brig decide to take him for a wild night of partying instead. Dudes proceed to rock as they bond on a rapid, wild adventure. We have never watched any of Ashby’s films, and this is supposed to be one of his best, so we’ll give it a shot.

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

https://blorp.zapto.org/o/visual_cuisine

Be there, comrades!

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CWs for Eternity and a Day:

  • Terminal illness.
  • Child abandonment.
  • Existentialism.
  • Unstable reality.
  • Surrealism.
  • Kissing.
  • Smoking.
  • Alcohol.

CWs for The Last Detail:

  • Sex.
  • Prostitution.
  • Nudity.
  • Fistfighting.
  • Blood.
  • Gun violence.
  • Profanity.
  • Smoking.
  • Drug use.
  • Alcohol.

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