Grindhouse screenings are back with provocateur Abel Ferrara's infamous thriller of revenge and Wild West lawlessness in 1980s NYC. 45th anniversary screening.
Wild man director Abel Ferrara's mondo revenge flick like you've never seen it before: in true grindhouse style with a perfectly imperfect 35mm print deep from the IU vault. Head back to the storied days of late-night drive-ins and scrappy single-screen indie theaters bringing the underground to the mainstream as Thana—driven insane after multiple assaults—exacts her revenge on NYC's worst. [80 min; thriller; English]
"What's terrific about the film is the way Ferrara is able to delineate a fierce sense of 1980 New York as a sparse, poisonously fertile combat zone where the daily grind of alienated work, dread, tedium, social compartmentalization, and impersonality cohabit with untold allegorical possibilities." — Howard Hampton, ArtForum
"His sardonic documentary portraits of cheesy styles of macho seduction set up an implacable gender opposition of legendary dimensions, beyond politics and perhaps beyond redress." — Richard Brody, The New Yorker
"Ferrara blows up the everyday threat of harassment and violence against women into a magnified force." — Scott Tobias, The Dissolve
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