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This week Hairy Harmonies looks at the building blocks of a romantic love story. Joseph Campbell propounds that ancient love (as from Eros/Cupid) was little more than sexual desire without the romance brought to us in the 11th century by the troubadours. We’re looking at two films that demonstrate what goes in to making a romance. The first, Final Cut: Ladies & Gentlemen is an archetypal boy-meets-girl story constructed from over a thousand clips from 450 films. The second, Three Thousand Years of Longing , gives us several variations on a theme framed inside a larger story where all are told as fables, leaving the viewer to dissect the less epic truth behind the mythic tale. Beyond examining each film, one might consider that both were directed by men, but the source material for the second was written by a woman, and how much time and depth each character is given.

Final Cut: Ladies & Gentlemen (2012) Hölgyeim és uraim

1h 25min 47sec, Multiple languages with hard coded English subtitles Directed by György Pálfi

Synopsis: A simple yet timeless love story between a man and a woman, told using scenes edited together from hundreds of other films.

From www.imdb.com/title/tt2243299/trivia/:

Director György Pálfi said at the last Budapest screening of the film: “We came from torrent, we go back to torrent.” He referred to how they got hold of most clips used in the movie via peer-to-peer file sharing, and how the film itself will become available to the public.

Long examination of film: sensesofcinema.com/…/creativity-beyond-originalit…

Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022)

1h 48min 23sec, English with hard coded English subtitles Directed by George Miller

A lonely scholar, on a trip to Istanbul, discovers a Djinn who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. Based off A. S. Byatt’s collection of mythic short stories, The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye.

From Gizmodo:

There is something satisfying about watching the theories of storytelling play out on screen, even when the storyteller attempts to justify their own story, their own place in the world. It brings up a lot of questions about storytelling, who gets to tell stories, and what stories become the truth.

Content Warnings:

Final Cut: Ladies & Gentlemen no rating certifications found (imdb) Sex & Nudity: Severe (including one brief but explicit clip of penile/vaginal penetration) Violence & Gore: Moderate Profanity: Mild Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking: Mild Frightening & Intense Scenes: Mild hidden spoilers from www.doesthedogdie.com/media/135971 :::spoiler 8 spoilers that won’t ruin the movie someone becomes unconscious babies or unborn children someone dies sexual content nude scenes blood/gore gun violence natural bodies of water :::

Three Thousand Years of Longing Content Warnings: U.S. rated R for some sexual content, graphic nudity and brief violence Sex & Nudity: Moderate Violence & Gore: Mild Profanity: Mild Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking: Mild Frightening & Intense Scenes: Mild hidden spoilers from www.doesthedogdie.com/media/68778 :::spoiler 35 spoilers that won’t ruin the movie child abused addiction someone abuses alcohol horse dies dead animal bugs spiders someone restrained someone struggles to breathe someone asphyxiates someone chokes someone becomes unconscious someone drowns someone falls to their death someone dies pregnant person dies family member dies someone cheats misophonia babies or unborn children someone miscarried fat jokes minority misrepresented minor sexualized large age gap sexual content nude scenes someone sexually objectified someone loses their virginity someone sexually assaulted someone sexually assaulted onscreen blood/gore body horror natural bodies of water :::

Before the main event, there will be an unrelated short documentary on Texas blues artist Mance Lipscomb by the famed Les Blank: A Life Well Spent. It has no content warnings.

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(pre-show) letterboxd.com/film/a-well-spent-life/ letterboxd.com/…/final-cut-ladies-and-gentlemen/ letterboxd.com/…/three-thousand-years-of-longing/

movie links:

• 3pm EDT / 21:00 UTC - Pre-show intro for A Well Spent Life intro: tankie.tube/w/11H9UfP2isNuxiroLzgosC
• 3pm EDT / 21:00 UTC - Pre-show: Well Spent Life: tankie.tube/w/jgCXZDNabaVKJX24vr1Nic
• 4pm EDT / 22:00 UTC - Final Cut: Ladies & Gentlemen: tankie.tube/w/1etUh6sCvJddn12rn4wMxd
• 6pm EDT / 22:00 UTC - Three Thousand Years of Longing : tankie.tube/w/bDfHiqiCY9jBRMibrRG6mE

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