DECEMBER 12 - 7.00 pm
Point Blank
John Boorman (1967) 92 mins M
Marvin features as the prototypical ice-cold killer for hire in this classic, post-noir masterpiece of criminal obsession that summarised one genre & began another. Boorman's masterful use of widescreen, shifting temporality, ethereal San Francisco locations, & an underworld plot of cross & double-cross creates a palpable paranoia as Marvin attempts to get even with those who betrayed him. With Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn, John Vernon & Carroll O'Connor.
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DECEMBER 12 - 8.45 pm
THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE
John Ford (1962) 123 mins PG
The culmination of John Ford's investigation into the fabric of the American social contract. Patronised upon its original release, Liberty Valance is now unreservedly regarded as a classic. Marvin's wildest incarnation of leering, Method acting, black-hatted, bad guy extremism becomes a litmus for James Stewart & John Wayne to test their own white-hatted movie iconography, & permits Ford to re-examine & question the core cultural meanings of the Western genre. Co-stars Vera Miles, Andy Devine, Edmond O'Brien, John Carradine, Lee Van Cleef & Woody Strode.
Lee Marvin Special Season (March 7 - 21).
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