| |
Currently On Sale
On Sale: 2008 Archive
On Sale: 2007 Archive
All That Fosse
GS: Clara Bow
Met: Roméo et Juliette
Val Lewton
Spanish Cinema Now
Pilar Miró
La Guerra Filmada
YFF: ...Dollhouse
Accattone in Jazz
GS: Battling Butler
Pasolini
The Iron Horse
Freewheelin’: Music Docs
David Fincher
Whole Shootin' Match
Rolex Art Weekend
NYWIFT: Attica
YFF: Murmur...
Beyond Boundaries
IN: Greensboro
10 Years HK
Leo Awards 07
Chinese Modern
Avant-Garde
De Andrade
For Goodis Sake
YFF: Run Fatboy...
Zeki Demirkubuz
FCS: The Last Winter
Latinbeat 07
Latinbeat 07 Sidebar
Gerard Depardieu
IN: Life on the Mesa
YFF: Bullets over B'way
FCS: Executioner’s Song
FCS: Them
Green Screens: 11th Hour
Polanski
Scanners: NY Video Fest
Woodfall Studios
FCS: Norman Mailer
SFP: Way Down East
SE: After This...
YFF: King of New York
SE: Talk To Me
Kino
Live Earth
FCS: Joshua
Next Gen.: Scorsese
Human Rights Watch
IN: Banished
SE: Evening
New Italian Cinema
YFF: The Story of Qiu Ju
Magnum
Barry Lyndon
4 from Schlesinger
Lee Marvin
Program Overview
Attack
Bad Day...
The Big Heat
The Big Red One
Cat Ballou
The Comancheros
The Dirty Dozen
Emperor of...
Hell in the Pacific
The Iceman Cometh
The Killers
L.M.: Personal Portrait
...Liberty Valance
Monte Walsh
Paint Your Wagon
Point Blank
Prime Cut
The Professionals
Seven Men...
Shack Out on 101
Ship of Fools
The Spikes Gang
Wide Awake
White Nights
Paul Mazursky
Duke Ellington
SE: Il Trittico
YFF: Waitress
SFP: Toons, Tunes...
Carlos Saura
China's Independents
FCS: Electra
FCS: Hot Fuzz
African Film Festival
Daniel Barenboim
ND/NF Classics
Tian Zhuangzhuang
Offside
Rendez-Vous
FCS: P. Verhoeven
IN: A Dream in Doubt
Film Comment Selects
YFF: In the Soup
Donald Cammell
SE: Days of Glory
Farmanara Retro
NY Jewish Film Festival
Whitaker Films
SE: Forest Whitaker
SE: For Goodis Sakepostponed
Dance on Camera 2007
On Sale: 2006 Archive
On Sale: 2005 Archive
Archive 2005 - To April
Archive 2004 - WRT
Archive 2003 - WRT
Archive 2002 - WRT
Archive 2001 - WRT
Archive 2000 - WRT
Archive 1999 - WRT
Archive 1998 - WRT
Archive 1997 - WRT
Archive 1996 - WRT
|
|
A very loose update of Hemingway’s short story, in which the film noir ambience of Robert Siodmak’s 1946 film adaptation gives way to a detailed, violent tale of two hitmen (Marvin and Clu Gulager) in the corporate mode who operate in broad daylight. When they are hired to murder Johnny North (John Cassavetes), a teacher at an institute for the blind, the killers question why the victim behaves so passively, as if death were his proper fate. After the murder, a nasty story unfolds, including robbery and multiple betrayals, made even more interesting when the hitmen take over the investigation, trying to get to the bottom of who they killed. Marvin and Gulager are riveting as the hired guns. Angie Dickinson is the dangerously ambivalent sidekick and lover of corrupt kingpin Jack Browning, played convincingly by Ronald Reagan in his last role. Clever and brutal, this second film version of The Killers was intended for television but was released theatrically, possibly due to Siegel’s sadistic directorial flourishes.
|
Mon May 21: 2:30
Wed May 23: 4:15 & 8:30
|
