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For this Special Thursday Cinema Night, 8PM EST, there’s no special theme, just two more good flicks. First up is the crime-comedy Band of Outsiders (1964), centering on a trio of extremely movie-brained French people, to the point of living their lives as if they live inside a Hollywood narrative, pretending to be cowboys sometimes, and musical tap-dancers at others. Their love of crime movies inspires them to rob a suburban villa and to plan the heist according to their romanticized Hollywoodized preconceptions. The director is, once again, the auteur of auteurs Jean-Luc Godard, whose Alphaville (1965) and La Chinoise (1967) we recently watched. This is considered one of his better films.

After that is Naked Lunch (1991), a film-noir inspired by William S. Burroughs’s novel of the same name, set in a surreal city populated by both humans and giant, sentient insects. A human detective, played by Peter Weller of Robocop fame, also serves as a professional bug killer, only to see his life turned upside down when he take a mysterious new drug, which sees him becoming the lackey of a bug while losing his grip on reality. A whole lot of weirdness follows, courtesy of the legend himself, David Cronenberg. Stay away from the drugs, kids.

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

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

Be there, comrades!