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For this Special Thursday Cinema Night, 8PM EST, it’s Satoshi Kon’s anime Paranoia Agent (2004) eps. 1-6, Buster Keaton’s Convict 13 (1920), and the Marx brothers’ Monkey Business (1931)! (CWs inside)

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For this Special Thursday Cinema Night, first up is Paranoia Agent (2004), the highly-acclaimed short psychological-thriller anime series from renowned auteur Satoshi Kon, the guy behind Perfect Blue (1997), Millennium Actress (2001), Tokyo Godfathers (2003), and Paprika (2006), all of which we previously watched. It follows a series of attacks in Tokyo from a mysterious boy wielding a golden baseball bat. Detectives investigate, only to find that the boys’ victims seek out their assaults at his hands as a form of salvation from their miserable, desperate lives. Is the show trying to say something? This is considered to be on par with Kon’s other work, and it is only 12 episodes long, so we should watch it. Episodes 1 through 6 tonight.

BONUS: Between the features, we will watch the 21-minute Buster Keaton short Convict 13 (1920), which features Buster as a golfer who knocks himself unconscious with his own ball, during which time an escaped convict swaps clothes with him. Buster is then arrested and thrown into jail, where he must navigate the wacky world of the Usian penal system. Hilarity ensues, in Buster’s usual silly fashion. Considered one of his better shorts.

After that is Monkey Business (1931), the second feature film to star the legendary Marx brothers, one of the premiere slapstick acts of the their day. The film’s threadbare plot follows four brothers (Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo) as they stow away on a cruise ship full of rich people and troll everyone there. The crew start catching onto them, and so the brothers must engage in even more silliness to avoid punishment. Surprisingly, we have never watched any Marx brother films on the ‘tube; that changes tonight. This is generally considered the magnum opus of director Norman Z. MacLeod’s oeuvre; he also helmed the Marxes’ Horse Feathers (1932).

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

blorp.bot.nu/o/visual_cuisine

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

  • Paranoia Agent: letterboxd.com/film/paranoia-agent/
  • Convict 13: letterboxd.com/film/convict-13/
  • Monkey Business: letterboxd.com/film/monkey-business/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

CWs for Paranoia Agent:

  • Death of dog.
  • Child abuse.
  • Gaslighting.
  • Stalking.
  • Alcohol abuse.
  • Drug use.
  • Deaths of animals.
  • Death of pet.
  • Animal corpses.
  • Someone is physically restrained.
  • Bullying.
  • Death of child.
  • Cheating.
  • Bath scene.
  • Natural bodies of water.
  • Vomiting.
  • Needles.
  • Hospital scene.
  • Misophonia.
  • PTSD.
  • Unstable reality.
  • Dissociation.
  • Mental illness.
  • Meltdown.
  • Hanging.
  • Someone struggles to breathe.
  • Flashing lights.
  • Screaming.
  • Someone is watched without their knowledge.
  • Babies.
  • Death of LGBT person.
  • Suicide.
  • Suicide attempt.
  • Self-harm.
  • Suicidal ideation.
  • Sexualization of minor.
  • Incest.
  • Sex.
  • Prostitution.
  • Nudity.
  • Objectification of female characters.
  • Implied sexual assault, but not directly depicted.
  • Implied pedophilia.
  • Chronic illness.
  • Homelessness.
  • Car crash.
  • Honking horns.
  • Screeching tires.
  • Blood and gore.
  • Someone falls down stairs.
  • Unconsciousness.

CWs for Monkey Business:

  • Cheating.
  • Slapstick violence.
  • Ableism.
  • Sexual innuendos.
  • Sexual harassment of women.
  • Objectification of female characters.
  • Nudity.
  • Fistfighting.
  • Gun violence.
  • Alcohol.
  • Smoking.

Links to movies:

  • Paranoia Agent ep. 1: tankie.tube/w/mqPAQdker7QpDmZv5ccPFT
  • Paranoia Agent ep. 2: tankie.tube/w/3fVajXy6Ux14uWXt1PipUF
  • Paranoia Agent ep. 3: tankie.tube/w/j3D4rdoMc5i1RwibzhD5Uk
  • Paranoia Agent ep. 4: tankie.tube/w/1hDVA8JvD7KqG4ZvEJD83L
  • Paranoia Agent ep. 5: tankie.tube/w/buEXvZATkkZKPAZLnDhfRJ
  • Paranoia Agent ep. 6: tankie.tube/w/gbnegLtNC95YBK3Y2J8LUa
  • Convict 13: tankie.tube/w/dKdSJoLjTj8vt4RdGdCTU7
  • Monkey Business: tankie.tube/w/t7F1EZk4NMRJ5nojx1RD6X

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