Jeff Baugh begins his new regular column by talking about two recent big releases that aren’t Barbie and Oppenheimer.
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This Week in Austin screenings 9/8-9/14.
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Films about transness and particularly trans women have been around, oh, since the invention of film, but films with trans actors are rarer. Hard Women doesn’t provide a clear history of transness in Germany. It doesn’t give us easy answers, or “representation.” Instead, what Hard Women does is offer a layered reflection of transploitation and trans performance in 1970s Germany.
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GUTS is the short story of Horace (Kirk C. Johnson), a guy at his office trying to fit in with his coworkers and get a promotion from his boss. Oh, and Horace's intestines are on the outside of his body. The film’s director, Chris McInroy, recently sat down with Hyperreal Film Club to share all of the bloody, gooey details of his off-kilter office comedy.
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Miles Davis’ breathtaking trumpet score elevates Louis Malle’s 1958 Elevators to the Gallows to a mid-century classic, enshrining a moment of musical evolution in film.
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This week in Austin screenings 9/1-9/6
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Summer may be over but movies are forever. The breakneck pace of our summer schedule brought with it action movies from across the globe, under-seen gems from the ‘90s and 2000s, and the sweatiest version of Double Indemnity you’ll ever see in your life. But if you’re looking for even more movies to give you an excuse not to leave the air-conditioned oasis of your home, here are the double features suggested by the Hyperreal Film Club community.
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Twenty years on, Oldboy’s themes are more relevant to our current hellscape timeline than ever. Efforts to even the moral scales of grievance, even catastrophic ones, lead only to self-destruction and incalculable shards of collateral damage, reflecting the absurd chaos of the human condition.
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As a prime example of the pulp genre, Peter Jackson’s King Kong (2005) takes its audience on a rollercoaster of thrills.
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Tears of the Black Tiger understands that when you’re in love, every stake and sensation is elevated to the highest level possible.
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This week in Austin screenings 8/25-8/31
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The imagery is largely observational, it gives the impression that Krasna is a fly on the wall, that the film displays his memories as he recalls them. Some of them are languorous; some, a flash.
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A truly once in a lifetime opportunity to see a film straight from Quentin Tarantino’s personal archive. The only E.T. ripoff to spend more time building up to a BMX race than focus on the alien. A frankly painful amount of shots of children absolutely beefing it on their bikes. This is Magic BMX.
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Mamoru Oshii’s Ghost in the Shell (1995) interrogates the idea of self, collective and non-self, marrying Buddhist and Abrahamic philosophies.
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Norman MacLeod’s Alice in Wonderland adaptation brings viewers into an exquisitely rendered world with uncanny visuals.
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This week in Austin screenings 8/18-8/24.
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Kitano takes a fractured, elliptical approach to depicting violence, like Peckinpah with frames missing. Yet despite its veneer of deadpan nihilism, this is a deeply emotional story, aided by Joe Hisaishi’s perversely sentimental seaside-jazz score.
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Raine Allen-Miller’s 2023 debut is a brilliant romantic comedy about two unlucky-in-love people in South London, who each try to help each other process their recent break-ups. Together they go on an adventure that starts as a meet-cute, which evolves into a heist caper, and ends in a very sweet romantic send off.
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In the first edition of Morgan’s Monthly, writer, presenter, and cult film enthusiast Morgan Hyde writes about cucked dudes, cinema classics, and a Turkish E.T.
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Noxeema’s four steps to becoming a drag queen:
May good thoughts be your sword and shield.
Ignore Adversity
Abide by the rules of Love
Larger than life is just the right size.