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For this Sunday Kino Night, first up is Peppermint Candy (1999), a Korean crime drama from renowned auteur Lee Chang-dong, the director of Burning (2018) and Poetry (2010), both of which we previously watched. A man is about to commit suicide by jumping off a bridge; the film flashes back to episodes in his life in reverse-chronological order to show how he got into a brutal life of crime that led him to despair. Who knows, maybe this reflection will bring him back from the edge. This is one of the highest-rated Korean movies on Letterboxd.

After that is Dead of Night (1945), a British horror-comedy anthology, consisted of five segments, each introduced via a frame story of strange guests hounding an architect at an English country house with their bizarre stories. Expect a lot of ghosts and other supernatural antics, by turns spooky and farcical. Four directors collaborated on this film: Charles Crichton is better-known for A Fish Called Wanda (1988), Robert Hamer for Kind Hearts & Coronets (1949), and Basil Dearden for Victim (1961) (we haven’t watched any of those on the 'tube yet.) This is, however, Alberto Cavalcanti’s best-known film. This is considered one of the best horror films of the 1940s, and also a good comedy, so let’s check it out.

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CWs for Peppermint Candy:

  • Nudity.
  • Sex.
  • Bath scene.
  • Beatings.
  • Violence against women.
  • Blood and gore.
  • Police brutality.
  • Someone soils themselves.
  • Gun violence.
  • Torture.
  • Profanity.
  • Depression.
  • Alcohol.
  • Smoking.
  • Sad ending.

CWs for Dead of Night:

  • Domestic violence.
  • Death of child.
  • Possession.
  • Ghosts.
  • Mental hospital scene.
  • Car crash.

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