Special Guests Scheduled to Appear
William Friedkin's remake of The Wages of Fear maintains its perverse punch and turns the tension up to 11.
Four men on the run from the law in South America jump at the chance to solve their problems by accepting a job that pays $10,000 and will grant them legal citizenship. The catch? They have to stay alive while ferrying a shipment of highly unstable nitroglycerin across 200 miles of bad roads, unstable bridges, and unpredictable attacks from local gangs. [121 min; thriller, suspense; English and Spanish with English subtitles]
The screening will be followed by a discussion of stunt work in film between Leraldo Anzaldua and Patrick Kelly.
Leraldo Anzaldua is an actor, fight director, and motion capture performer for film and video games. He’s assistant professor of movement and stage combat in IU’s Department of Theatre and Drama and certified by the Society of American Fight Directors. Patrick Kelly is a professional martial artist, fight choreographer, stunt coordinator, and stunt performer. He is the director of Martial Arts at IU and has served as stunt coordinator for feature films and as a stunt performer for television shows on the History Channel, Netflix, and Amazon.
This program is supported by the Jim and Roberta Sherman Inspiring Conversations Fund.
"Friedkin’s cyclical, almost Kafkaesque insistence that politics revolves around now globalized, corporate power delegating hired guns to do under-the-table bidding across national boundaries announces itself through the soundscape, with Tangerine Dream’s electronic basslines substituting for bloodshed. No one escapes the suffocating corrosion of Sorcerer’s polysemous diegesis—not even Friedkin himself, as audiences and industry would have it." — Clayton Dillard, Slant Magazine
"Sorcerer might bring back the kind of moviegoer who used to cheer Humphrey Bogart. It's tough and unyielding as a pair of brass knuckles." — Rex Reed, New York Daily News
"The director at his most brilliant and original." — Peter Keough, Boston Globe
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