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Quick links/Discussed in this episode:
Baby Invasion (2024): A home invasion thriller (set inside a video game?) following a group of mercenaries who break into mansions while wearing baby-face digital avatars. A predictably divisive Harmony Korine experimental provocation, this showed up on VOD unexpectedly (thanks to an anonymous poster for noticing and pointing it out to us). Buy or rent Baby Invasion on VOD.
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024): Shula discovers her uncle’s dead body lying by the side of the road, then reluctantly joins in the funeral arrangements. A24’s marketing material describes this Zambian movie as ”surreal and vibrant.” Now on VOD at premium pricing; we expect the rental cost to come down in a month or so. Buy or rent On Becoming a Guinea Fowl.
Pink Narcissus (1971): A gay prostitute imagines himself in various exotic settings: the Roman empire, a Turkish harem, a bullfighting ring, etc. This newly-restored avant-garde experimental queer feature is in our reader-suggested queue, and we presume a physical media release will follow shortly, giving us a chance to check it out. Playing at the Metrograph in NYC, with future dates scheduled in Seattle and Silver Springs, MD (and hopefully more). Pink Narcissus at Strand Releasing.
The Vourdalak (2023): Read Giles Edwards’ Apocrypha Candidate review. This Blu-ray comes with deleted scenes and two short films from director Adrien Beau. Buy The Vourdalak.
WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE:
No guest next week on Pod 366, but Greg and Giles will return with a look at what’s weird in new releases. In written content, Shane Wilson reflects on a Better Man (2024) (the Robbie-Williams-as-a-chimp biopic), El Rob Hubbard proclaims The Dragon Lives Again (1977), Gregory J. Smalley shows you Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind (1978), and Giles Edwards endures a Baby Invasion. Onward and weirdward!