This screening includes A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
- Date and time:
- Thurs, Feb 23, 2017, From 6:30–8:17 pm
- Runtime:
- 1 hr 47 min
- Cost:
- $3 all tickets.
Series: Ana Lily Amirpour: Her Way
About A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
In the Iranian ghost town of Bad City, all sorts of unsavory characters are being stalked by a lonely vampire. But when boy meets girl, an unusual love story begins to blossom ... blood red. The first Iranian vampire western, Ana Lily Amirpour’s debut is a joyful mash-up of influences that span spaghetti westerns, graphic novels, horror films, and the Iranian New Wave. Amped by a mix of Iranian rock, techno, and Ennio Morricone-inspired riffs, its airy, black-and-white aesthetic and artfully paced scenes combine the simmering tension of Sergio Leone and surrealism of David Lynch. In Persian language with English subtitles. Director Ana Lily Amirpour is scheduled to be present. (2K DCP Presentation)
Ana Lily Amirpour
Named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” in 2014, Ana Lily Amirpour is an Iranian-American director, writer, producer, and actor who is most known for her feature-film debut, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, an “Iranian vampire spaghetti western” that rocked the Sundance Film Festival in 2014. Born in England and settled in Bakersfield, Calif., she attended art school at San Francisco State University and graduated from UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television. Amirpour has been making films since she was 12 years old: “I make films to make friends,” “It’s just me, lonely, trying to figure out how to be a human being.” Her second feature, The Bad Batch, won the Special Jury Prize at the 2016 Venice Film Festival. The “post-apocalyptic cannibal love story,” as she describes it, is “Road Warrior meets Pretty in Pink with a dope soundtrack” and opens in 2017.