MARCH 28 SAM FULLER - 7:00 pm
The Naked Kiss
(Sam Fuller) 1964 USA 93 mins M
Fuller's most unsettling work features Constance Towers as a prostitute who vainly attempts to leave her life of sin & enter mainstream society, only to discover that it is even more depraved than the world she has fled. Evocatively shot by Stanley Cortez, this emotionally raw, lurid, noirish melodrama is possibly the director's most potent & unkempt film, taking its audience on an extraordinary roller-coaster ride right from its eye-poppingly abrasive opening images.
Preceded by by two Kieslowski shorts:
Refrain
(1972) 10 mins. The funeral bureaucracy, grief & emotions are turned into numbers
Factory
(1970) 17 mins. A working day in the tractor factory, there is a shortage of equipment, parts... but there seems no way out of the vicious network of misunderstandings & bureaucracy.
Articles from CTEQ Annotations on Film:
Relevant Articles from Senses of Cinema:
"Great Directors Critical Database: Sam Fuller" - Adrian Martin
MARCH 28 SAM FULLER - 9:10pm
Park Row
(Sam Fuller) 1952 USA 93 mins M
Evocatively set in 1880s New York, Fuller's homage to his journalistic origins & the social role of the 4th Estate is an offbeat, hard-hitting but surprisingly optimistic low budget film about a crusading editor (Fuller stalwart Gene Evans) who tries to publish his newspaper despite opposition from a rival magnate. Mostly self-funded, this is one of Fuller's most underrated & revealing works exploring the underpinnings of American society.
Preceded by...
In the Street
James Agee & Helen Levitt (1953) 15 mins. Film critic & scriptwriter Agee's matter-of-fact portrait of Upper East Side Manhattan street life.
Articles from CTEQ Annotations on Film:
Relevant Articles from Senses of Cinema:
"Great Directors Critical Database: Sam Fuller" - Adrian Martin