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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 Bloodettes (2005), a sci-fi thriller from Cameroon set in the cyberpunk near-future of 2025. It follows a pair of female sex workers who kill one of their clients, a powerful politician; they then have to cover up their crime, taking them into the seedy futuristic underbelly of Cameroonian nightlife. This is one of the few African sci-fi films listed on Letterboxd, and it is apparently pretty good, so let’s check it out. It is the best-known work to date of director Jean-Pierre Bekolo.

After that is Only Lovers Left Alive (2013), a romance about a musician vampire couple (Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston) in Detroit. They have been together for centuries, but things become complicated when the lady’s younger sister arrives, and a love triangle begins. Think of it as a slighty higher-brow version of What We Do in the Shadows (2014), following the oft-comic slice-of-life antics of the undead. Director is Jim Jarmusch, whose filmography we have visited several times (Stranger than Paradise [1984], Down by Law [1986], Mystery Train [1989], Ghost Dog [1999].)

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

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

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• The Bloodettes: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-bloodettes/
• Only Lovers Left Alive: https://letterboxd.com/film/only-lovers-left-alive/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• The Bloodettes: Sorry, nothing on DTDD or IMDB.
• Only Lovers Left Alive: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/10778

CWs for The Bloodettes:

• Nudity.
• Sex.
• Prostitution.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Blood and gore.
• Drug use.

CWs for Only Lovers Left Alive:

• Stalking.
• Hospital scene.
• Flashing lights.
• Blood and gore.

Links to movies:

• The Bloodettes: https://tankie.tube/w/6h8wWysuCqXkeNzRqgykpA
• Only Lovers Left Alive: https://tankie.tube/w/ws1fDZxGYfpRkMd8aCSpwj