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Tonight's Movie!

El Eternauta (2025) is a live-action Netflix adaptation of the Argentinian alien-invasion comic book written by . From the Wikipedia article:

The Eternaut (Spanish: El Eternauta) is an Argentine science fiction comic created by Héctor Germán Oesterheld with artwork by Francisco Solano López. It was first published in Hora Cero Semanal between 1957 and 1959, initially as a serialized comic strip. The story is focused on a handful of survivors of a deadly alien invasion in Buenos Aires.

After other failed attempts to continue the story, Oesterheld remade it in 1969, with art by Alberto Breccia and a more overt political tone. Oesterheld became the spokesman of the Montoneros guerrillas by the time he started the sequel, El Eternauta: segunda parte, again with Solano López. The Dirty War against guerrilla groups forced Oesterheld to go into hiding, but he completed the story nonetheless. He was a victim of an enforced disappearance shortly after that. His widow Elsa Oesterheld sold the rights of the character to the publisher Ediciones Record, and tried later to annul the contract, leading to a lengthy copyright dispute.

The story had many sequels in later years, sometimes with conflicting canonicity. A television miniseries adaptation by Netflix, The Eternaut, premiered on April 30, 2025, starring Ricardo Darín as the lead character.

Héctor Germán Oesterheld is an interesting guy. Here's a couple versions of the comic version of El Eternauta. If you haven't read it, it's worth reading.

• Fantastic English translation with an explanation of the rules of Truco: https://annas-archive.gl/md5/1bda9c1b7581204d7d131d39811c7aef
• Original Spanish-language version: https://annas-archive.gl/md5/2cd319c9676cbd43f8845839bcbd3539
• German translation: https://annas-archive.gl/md5/f42634bfef0f5ea326c74e50b589baed

El Eternauta (2025)

We'll be watching the Netflix live-action adaptation, which is set in contemporary Buenos Aires. Dudes are rocking, playing Truco, and then it starts snowing. I'll try and provide some context for how Truco works and other Argentine things.

• Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-eternaut/
• IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27740241/

CWs

• Argentinian insults like "pelotudo", "boludo" and "conchudo" can be heard along with other insults through the series.
• Smoking/Drinking
• dead prop dogs
• a parent dies
• other family members die. there are a lot of dead people. none of it is graphic.
• insects
• dead bodies
• self-sacrifice
• jump scares
• possession
• natural bodies of water
• people are eaten (off screen)
• PTSD
• dissociation/derealization/depersonalization
• somebody has a meltdown
• somebody struggles to breathe
• loud noises
• screaming
• babies
• suicide (attempted and completed)
• homelessnes
• car crashes
• honking/squeaking
• violence/guns
• stabbing
• death by falling
• unconsciousness

tankie.tube links:

• El Eternauta S1E1 "A Night of Cards": https://tankie.tube/w/baJJ9qeDRbBDnJrf3b7i3j
• El Eternauta S1E2 "Step Into the Sun": https://tankie.tube/w/bm8WVbTM8FoGqRMfAKLBj6
• El Eternauta S1E3 "Magnetism": https://tankie.tube/w/kkKnhWXrXm9raWBZxan4Y7

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Tonight's Movie!

Part one of The Sorrow and the Pity (1969) tonight. For real, this time. Subtitle issues are sorted out. After that, Blood Debts (1985) a Filipino Death Wish (1973?) rip-off that is mostly famous for its ridiculous ending.

The Sorrow and the Pity Part One (1969)

Originally produced for French TV, this was released theatrically after the network that commissioned it realized that it makes everyone in France look like a collaborator. Oops! Marcel Ophüls interleaves interviews with citizens of the city of Clermont-Ferrand with archival footage to say something about France. If memory serves me, Part 1 is the (comparatively) more sympathetic half of the documentary. We'll see if it is.

• Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-sorrow-and-the-pity-1969/
• IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066904/

Blood Debts (1985)

Stolen from Letterboxd:

It started with theremoved of his daughter, then the killing of her boyfriend. He takes the law into his own hands and has his revenge. Branded as a vicious killer by the underworld, the syndicate blackmails him into becoming their hitman. As he gets more and more tied up in the world of drugs, prostitution and death, he decides he wants out. No one gets out of the syndicate alive. It then becomes a battle for survival, him against them in a desperate act of street warfare. His life is his prize.

• Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/film/blood-debts/
• IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756288/parentalguide/

CWs

The Sorrow and the Pity Part 1 (1969)

Links

• IMDB parental guide: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066904/parentalguide/
• doesthedogdie.com: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/935943
• UnconsentingMedia: (not listed)

List

• Sexual assault
• Torture
• Ableist language
• Someone struggles to breathe
• Hate speech
• LGBT person dies
• Someone is restrained
• Antisemitism
• Sad ending

Blood Debts (1985)

Links

• IMDB parental guide: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756288/parentalguide/
• doesthedogdie.com: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/265118
• UnconsentingMedia: (not listed)

List

• Sexual assault
• Torture
• Nudity
• Shaving
• Gun Violence
• A parent dies
• Family member dies
• Someone is restrained
• Someone is kidnapped
• Someone is watched without knowing
• Screaming
• Obscene language
• Unconsciousness

tankie.tube links:

• The Sorrow and the Pity Part 1 (1969): https://tankie.tube/w/o6N4oy9nhZbTBDP4bgCMvf
• Blood Debts (1985): https://tankie.tube/w/mxEQ3aTDiBrxR7ZhkVQEv4

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Tonight's Movie!

Part one of The Sorrow and the Pity (1969) tonight, plus some Soviet animation featuring music by Vladimir Bystryakov, who did the music for Soviet Alice in Wonderland (1982). Battlefield (1986) is an adaptation of a Stephen King story. Hopeless Wombat (1991) is an adaptation of an Australian children's story.

The Sorrow and the Pity Part One (1969)

Originally produced for French TV, this was released theatrically after the network that commissioned it realized that it makes everyone in France look like a collaborator. Oops! Marcel Ophüls interleaves interviews with citizens of the city of Clermont-Ferrand with archival footage to say something about France. If memory serves me, Part 1 is the (comparatively) more sympathetic half of the documentary. We'll see if it is.

• Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-sorrow-and-the-pity-1969/
• IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066904/

Battlefield (1986), Hopeless Wombat (1991)

Battlefield (1986) is an adaptation of a Stephen King story. Hopeless Wombat (1991) is an adaptation of an Australian children's story. I just like the music in them. Are they any good? Let's find out!

CWs

The Sorrow and the Pity Part 1 (1969)

Links

• IMDB parental guide: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066904/parentalguide/
• doesthedogdie.com: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/935943
• UnconsentingMedia: (not listed)

List

• Sexual assault
• Torture
• Ableist language
• Someone struggles to breathe
• Hate speech
• LGBT person dies
• Someone is restrained
• Antisemitism
• Sad ending

tankie.tube links:

• The Sorrow and the Pity Part 1 (1969): https://tankie.tube/w/jUYCaUSW4Fvr4mrc6veurE
• Battlefield (1986): https://tankie.tube/w/5sTXarSohjnw9eYULWNPFF
• Hopeless Wombat (1991): https://tankie.tube/w/7oW5MD75tGTRYqRfh7UfbE

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Tonight's Movies!

Part 5 of the Battles Without Honor and Humanity series, Final Episode (1974) wraps up everything that's been going on in and around Hiroshima and makes the preceding 4 episodes make sense. Who am I kidding? Dudes will not rock, or maybe they do. It's hard to keep track with all the killing and yakuza shenanigans going on. I haven't seen this one yet. Let's see how it is! I'll try to keep track as we go but good luck with that.

As a palate cleanser, something I've been wanting to show for a long time: the North Haven Community School ballet adaptation of the Deerhoof album Milk Man. Kids rock. Details below.

Final Episode (1974)

Stolen from Letterboxd:

Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and extend his circle of acquaintances. These new friendships include a powerful underboss of the Muraoka family, Noboru Uchimoto.

• Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/film/battles-without-honor-and-humanity-final-episode/
• IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0226018/

Milk Man - The Ballet (2006)

Deerhoof made a concept album about a strawberry banana demon guy who snatches children from their dreams and sequesters them in another dimension. In 2006, the arts director of the North Haven Community School off the coast of Maine (population 417 as of 2020) decided to adapt it into a ballet with the input of teachers, students (ages 3-10), and the island community. A remote lobster fishing outpost in the middle of nowhere turned an avant-garde concept album into a ballet. From an interview with guitarist John Dieterich:

“It was a random brainstorm that this woman had. Basically, she had this idea and e-mailed us about it long before she had the ability to put it on; she wasn’t affiliated with any theatre group, or anything. She was living in Boston at the time and had just finished journalism school and had this idea whilst lying in bed at night. We thought it sounded great but had no idea how it would ever happen. But then six months later she was offered a job as the theatre and musical director on this island off the coast of Maine. She though that maybe we could do this, which was huge risk for her being a new teacher and pushing something so conceptual, but it turned out amazing and was an amazing experience for us.”

As school children manically pirouetted on stage beside the local bluegrass collective, the island’s church reverend and the neighbouring island’s reverend played trumpet and clarinet respectively. Alongside a host of other musical accompaniments, put together by Naliboff and P.E. teacher Ken Jones, it brought an entirely new meaning to ‘Giga Dance’.

“If only the mothers could have gone. The experience of being there – you can get the DVD – but the experience of going there, taking the ferry to the island, driving off the ferry and then looking out to the parking lot where you get off the ferry and there’s all these kids in white costumes jumping up and down welcoming us to the island. It was just like ‘this is totally not real’ and it only got more surreal just getting to know these people who had put so much time and energy into creating this new work of art that completely inspiring for me.”

CWs

Final Episode (1974)

Links

• IMDB parental guide: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0226018/parentalguide/
• doesthedogdie.com: (not listed)
• UnconsentingMedia: (not listed)

List

Nothing on doesthedogdie.com or IMDB so some general ones:

• Death
• Dismemberment (various kinds)
• Blood/gore
• Onscreen sexual violence
• Profanity
• Tobacco/alcohol/substance use
• Sad ending

IMDB Parental Guide:

Nothing, unfortunately. We're going in blind.

Milk Man - The Ballet (2006)

List

• Mildly unsettling themes

tankie.tube links:

• Final Episode (1974): https://tankie.tube/w/84LxzBZtAapj7zqPY8FCTy
• Milk Man: The Ballet (2006): https://tankie.tube/w/8Stt83om9VKntoxKrsFqF6

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Parts 3 and 4 of the "Battles without Honor and Humanity" series tonight: Proxy War (1973) and Police Tactics (1974). There's a lot of yakuza dudes fighting each other in the Hiroshima metro area. Wikipedia plot summaries will be in a comment below. There's so much plot happening, it's hard to keep track. The first two were fun, let's see how these are!

Proxy War (1973)

Stolen from Letterboxd:

Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and extend his circle of acquaintances. These new friendships include a powerful underboss of the Muraoka family, Noboru Uchimoto.

• Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/film/battles-without-honor-and-humanity-proxy-war/
• IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070244/

Police Tactics (1974)

Stolen from Letterboxd:

As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new dimension in the war for power among the yakuza families of Hiroshima.

• Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/film/battles-without-honor-and-humanity-police-tactics/
• IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071696/

CWs

Proxy War (1973)

Links

• IMDB parental guide: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070244/parentalguide/
• doesthedogdie.com: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/105897
• UnconsentingMedia: (not listed)

List

Nothing on doesthedogdie.com or IMDB so some general ones:

• Death
• Dismemberment (various kinds)
• Blood/gore
• Onscreen sexual violence - brief but intense, towards the beginning. I'll give a notice in the chat for anyone who prefers to skip it.
• Profanity
• Tobacco/alcohol/substance use
• Sad ending

IMDB Parental Guide:

Nothing, unfortunately. We're going in blind.

Police Tactics (1974)

Links

• IMDB parental guide: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071696/parentalguide/
• doesthedogdie.com: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/105898
• UnconsentingMedia: (unlisted)

List

Nothing on doesthedogdie.com or IMDB so some general ones:

• Death
• Dismemberment (various kinds)
• Blood/gore
• Onscreen sexual violence - brief but intense, towards the beginning. I'll give a notice in the chat for anyone who prefers to skip it.
• Profanity
• Tobacco/alcohol/substance use
• Sad ending

IMDB Parental Guide:

Nothing, unfortunately. We're going in blind.

tankie.tube links:

• Proxy War (1973): https://tankie.tube/w/qqsq1xLxgGUYEKA8dJTT5q
• Police Tactics (1974): https://tankie.tube/w/74xixGsMngdqKjrscYcPW4

We measured the distance/ Of the space between islands/ Gazing out into the River Styx, she said/ "It's no river at all, it's a tidal estuary"/ Was her only line, she delivered it well/

Oh, you're just a caster of worthless spells/ Oh, you're just a caster of worthless spells

They called it the pyrex age/ The glass dawn of our thought process/ Later to be chronicled in violent history books/ "You Suffer" on karaoke/ 'Cause there was no English translation for hell

Oh, you're just a caster of worthless spells/ Oh, you're just a caster of worthless spells

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Msu8oUIibG4

I'm having a baby and I'm naming it Greg and no one can stop me.

Gregnant is pronounced in the French fashion, "gre-NYON"

"Renis", if you will