A new month means a new slew of collections onThe Criterion Channel.
June is LGBTQ+ Pride Month and the home of the Juneteenth holiday.
Its a bizarro horror film, shot in black-and-white over the course of five years.
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It makes the film operate as a sort of nightmare meditation.
Specifically, zombie teeth, used by the infected antagonists of the piece to attack their victims at random.
These zombies will eat anybody, for no reason except that they are hungry.
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Never as subtly, though, as he does here.
Also directed by Kasdan, it is still his best handling of adult material all these years later.
That said,Kathleen Turneris technically the show-stealer here.
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He is also a transgender black man who spent most of his life heretofore in obscurity.
His only commercially available releasesincluding the 1986 self-released LPKeyboard Fantasiesbarely sold at all.
That email ended up being step one toward the world finally discovering Glenn-Copeland and his groundbreaking musical output.
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This 2019 documentary tells the musicians story.
That music has found fans in the likes of major-indie powerhouses likeBon Iver,Arca, andBlood Orange.
They dress in oddball fashion choices, speak in contradictory musings, and romanticize the past.
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They also bicker, often.
There is biting wit, individual style, and defiance.
What this creates is an affecting (and affected) sense of poignancy, vulnerability, and camp.
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Looking closer, you see two women not putting on a show butlivingone.
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