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Quick links:
Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain: https://youtu.be/BqNJBDEH3l8?t=166
Love on the Ground: https://youtu.be/BqNJBDEH3l8?t=369
Deadly Lust: https://youtu.be/BqNJBDEH3l8?t=528
“Dead Ringers” reboot on Amazon Prime: https://youtu.be/BqNJBDEH3l8?t=672
Note on Big Trouble in Little China: https://youtu.be/BqNJBDEH3l8?t=860
Why “Penguin”?: https://youtu.be/BqNJBDEH3l8?t=968
Cannabis and weird movies: https://youtu.be/BqNJBDEH3l8?t=1272
Getting dinner in Des Moines: https://youtu.be/BqNJBDEH3l8?t=1701
Alfred Eaker memorial slide: https://youtu.be/BqNJBDEH3l8?t=1932
Discussed in this episode:
Average Joe Travels the California Inscape
Deadly Lust [AKA Memento Mori] (2018): A young woman replays the events of a surreal pool party in her head. The trailer calls this budget Belgian indie “Lynchian,” and it’s been renamed from the original Memento Mori for Blu-ray release. Buy Deadly Lust.
“Dead Ringers” (upcoming 2023): A six-episode miniseries based on David Cronenberg‘s Canonically Weird movie. Rachel Weisz will star as the twin gynecologists; the usual modus operandi in these cases is to tone down the weirdness for a mass audience, but we shall see how much of the dread they want to keep (the material could be played as straight drama). TV Line got the scoop.
Love on the Ground [L’Amour par terre] (1984): An author watching a play invites the actors to enact another play, as two actresses begin to experience visions about a previous tragedy (which becomes part of the play). Jacques Rivette‘s meta-theatrical script is in some ways the spiritual heir to Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974). Buy Love on the Ground.
Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain (1983): A wild and magical wire-fu fantasy from Tsui Hark that helped inaugurate a new golden age of Hong Kong cinema. Buy Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain.
WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE:
On the next Pod 366, Giles Edwards will return to co-hosting duties. Our guest will be the A.I. chatbot SonicBot.
We have no Weird Watch Parties scheduled for next week (the feature isn’t going away, there’s just nothing until on Der Samurai on February 27.)
In reviews next week, Shane Wilson addresses another one that Came from the Reader-Suggested Queue in Steven Wright’s absurdist short “One Soldier” (1999). Gregory J. Smalley is currently deciding between two different films for review, so you’ll just have to wait until next week and be surprised at what he comes up with.
Onward and weirdward!