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George Eastman Double Feature Film Two: Baba Yaga (1973)

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An adaptation of Italian cartoonist Guido Crepax's erotic Valentina series, Corrado Farina's film  chronicles her experiences with the title witch. Effective cinematography and frames that resemble comics abound, yet the slow-paced narrative could use more action. Eastman plays Valentina's (Isabelle De Funes) considerate lover, Arno, who helps her fight Baba Yaga.

Recurring Dreams

I have only experienced recurring dreams once. When I was a kid, and remembered my dreams with more frequency, and in greater detail, I had a dream that kept coming back for a few weeks. It was very detailed, and in hindsight, I'm not sure if it was exactly the same, but it had many of the same features. I  remember being confused that I kept having it because it never had before. One funny thing about memory is that you believe something happened in a specific way, and it might not have. Remembering a dream is even more challenging because nobody but you remembers it, so you cannot ask them if it really happened that way.  Visually, the dream was striking, memorable, and very strange. It was like I was trapped in a Scooby-Doo episode, except the animation was crisper and more bizarre than the Hanna-Barbera cartoon. There were two witches that looked like they had escaped from The Wizard of Oz that flitted in and out and a sled race that led me back to the beginning of the dr...