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Bamcinématek Presents Back with a Vengeance, an Encore of February’S Hit Series Vengeance Is Hers, Apr 18—27 BAMcinématek presents Back with a Vengeance, an encore of February’s hit series Vengeance is Hers, Apr 18—27 “Revenge is ladled up hot and cold by the inflamed distaff protagonists in BAMcinématek’s Vengeance is Hers series, yet another ingenious program from the Kings County repertory redoubt.”—Melissa Anderson, The Village Voice The Wall Street Journal is the title sponsor for BAMcinématek and BAM Rose Cinemas. Brooklyn, NY/Mar 28, 2014—From Friday, April 18 through Sunday, April 27, BAMcinématek presents Back with a Vengeance, a redux of February’s highly popular Vengeance is Hers series. The series includes highlights from the first edition, new additions, and rare discoveries for Back With a Vengeance, gathering even more of cinema’s most unforgettable heroines and anti- heroines as they seize control and take no prisoners. Seen through the eyes of some of the world’s greatest directors, these films explore the full gamut of cinematic retribution in all its thrilling, unnerving dimensions. Back by popular demand and opening the series is Colin Higgins’ Nine to Five (1980—Apr 18 & 19), starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Dolly Parton (in her film debut) as shoulderpad-clad office employees bursting through the glass ceiling. Also returning is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975—Apr 20), a visionary portrait of three days in the life of a widowed mother. Shot with an entirely female crew, the film was hailed by The New York Times as the “first masterpiece of the feminine in the history of the cinema.” Carrying on Coffy’s legacy from Vengeance is Hers, Pam Grier—“the best of the blaxploitation heroines of the 70s” (Barbara Scharrs, Chicago Reader)—stars in Jack Hill’s Foxy Brown (1974— Apr 26), masquerading as a prostitute to get her revenge on the crooks who killed her boyfriend. Bette Davis plays another kind of vulpine heroine as an icy matriarch in William Wyler’s Southern melodrama The Little Foxes (1941—Apr 24 & 25), their second consecutive collaboration (after 1940’s The Letter) to receive Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Actress, and Director. Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen’s rarely-screened experimental film Riddles of the Sphinx (1977—Apr 19) is a special highlight of the series, a cornerstone of feminist film theory and its influence on cinematic form. Back with a Vengeance also includes Barbara Peeters’ Bury Me an Angel (1972—Apr 23), the first female-helmed biker movie, screening with Sarah Jacobson’s underground short film I Was a Teenage Serial Killer (1993); Michael Curtiz’ noir-melodrama Flamingo Road (1949—Apr 24), in which an ex-carnival dancer (Joan Crawford, fresh off of her Oscar-winning turn in Mildred Pierce) gets cozy with a posh businessman to exact her revenge; Clint Eastwood’s Sudden Impact (1983—Apr 23), featuring the iconic catchphrase “go ahead, make my day;” and Ousmane Sembène’s caustic satire of post-colonial corruption, Xala (1975— Apr 20). Closing the series is François Truffaut’s essential tribute to Alfred Hitchcock, The Bride Wore Black (1968—Apr 27). In this seamless “marriage of the French new wave and Hollywood tradition” (Roger Ebert, The Chicago Sun-Times), a new bride (Jeanne Moreau) embarks on a murderous rampage, hunting down the five men who killed her husband on their wedding day, all to the feverish pitch of Bernard Hermann’s score. For press information, please contact: Lisa Thomas at 718.724.8023 / [email protected] Hannah Thomas at 718.724.8002 / [email protected] Back with a Vengeance Schedule Fri, Apr 18 2, 4:30pm: Nine to Five Sat, Apr 19 2, 7pm: Riddles of the Sphinx 4:30, 9:15pm: Nine to Five Sun, Apr 20 2, 8:30pm: Xala 4:30pm: Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles Wed, Apr 23 4:30, 9:30pm: Sudden Impact 7pm: Bury Me an Angel + I Was a Teenage Serial Killer Thu, Apr 24 4:30, 9:30pm: Flamingo Road 7pm: The Little Foxes Fri, Apr 25 2pm: The Little Foxes Sat, Apr 26 7, 9:15pm: Foxy Brown Sun, Apr 27 4, 9:30pm: The Bride Wore Black Film Descriptions All films in 35mm except where noted. The Bride Wore Black (1968) 107min Directed by François Truffaut. With Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Bouquet. A grieving widow becomes an ice-cold avenging angel, picking off the five men, one by one, who murdered her husband on their wedding day. Truffaut turns each killing—by everything from poisoned arak to bow and arrow—into a deliciously perverse, black-comic set piece, while the Hitchcockian overtones are gloriously heightened by the delirious Bernard Herrmann score. Sun, Apr 27 at 4, 9:30pm Bury Me an Angel (1972) 89min Directed by Barbara Peeters. With Dixie Peabody, Terry Mace, Clyde Ventura. “A howling hellcat humping a hot steel hog on a roaring rampage of revenge!” screamed the tagline for this female-driven biker flick. Said hellcat Dag (Peabody) grabs her shotgun, revs her engines, and hits the road to inflict some pain on the motorcycle gang who killed her brother. Along the way there are chair- breaking barroom brawls, gratuitous 70s-era nudity, and an encounter with none other than Dan “Grizzly Adams” Haggerty as a friendly hippie. Screens with I Was a Teenage Serial Killer Directed by Sarah Jacobson (1993) 27min, 16mm. Wed, Apr 23 at 7pm Flamingo Road (1949) 94min Directed by Michael Curtiz. With Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet. A dancer in a carnival (original tough-girl Crawford) goes from the wrong side of the tracks to posh Flamingo Road, getting mixed up with two men and political corruption along the way. Directed in high- Euro style by Michael Curtiz, this noir-melodrama is “sweaty, delirious, and purposefully perverse…A strange, strange movie, it casts its own kind of spell” (Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader). Thu, Apr 24 at 4:30, 9:30pm Foxy Brown (1974) 94min Directed by Jack Hill. With Pam Grier, Antonio Fargas, Peter Brown. Pam Grier cemented her status as a super-fly grindhouse icon with this whiz-bang Blaxploitation follow-up to Coffy. Once again, she’s got vengeance on the brain as the tough-as-hell Foxy Brown, who packs a pistol in her Afro and poses as a prostitute in order to infiltrate a criminal underworld and hunt down the baddies who murdered her boyfriend. Sat, Apr 26 at 7, 9:15pm I Was a Teenage Serial Killer (1993) 27min This no-budget underground short film follows a former good girl who decides to take revenge on the “sexist pigs” of the world. 16mm. Screens with Bury Me an Angel Directed by Barbara Peeters (1972) 107min. Wed, Apr 23 at 7pm Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) 201min Directed by Chantal Akerman. With Delphine Seyrig, Jan Decorte, Henri Storck, Jacques Doniol- Valcroze. Three days in the humdrum life of a widowed Belgian mother: in near-real time, we watch as the title character (Seyrig) peels potatoes, runs errands, and entertains the occasional gentleman caller—leading up to one of cinema’s most shocking endings. Akerman’s landmark of slow cinema has been heralded as “the first masterpiece of the feminine in the history of the cinema” (The New York Times). Sun, Apr 20 at 4:30pm The Little Foxes (1941) 116min Directed by William Wyler. With Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright. Bette Davis is at her best in this luxuriously mounted adaptation of Lillian Hellman’s poison-pen stage play. She plays the mincing matriarch of an aristocratic Southern family who stops at nothing to get the money she wants to build a cotton mill. The venomous proceedings are splendiferously rendered in velvety deep-focus courtesy of Citizen Kane cinematographer Gregg Toland. Thu, Apr 24 at 7pm Fri, Apr 25 at 2pm Nine to Five (1980) 110min Directed by Colin Higgins. With Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, Dabney Coleman. Three overworked and underpaid female employees (the formidable team of Fonda, Tomlin, and Parton) join forces to take revenge against their chauvinistic boss (Coleman) via a rather half-baked kidnapping scheme. This women’s-lib 80s comedy classic features the memorable image of Tomlin as a homicidal Snow White and, of course, Dolly Parton (in her film debut) warbling that indelible theme song. DCP. Fri, Apr 18 at 2, 4:30pm Sat, Apr 19 at 4:30, 9:15pm Riddles of the Sphinx (1977) 92min Directed by Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen. With Dinah Stabb, Merdelle Jordine, Riannon Tise. Pioneering film theorist Laura Mulvey (“Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”) and husband Peter Wollen helmed this landmark of 70s experimental cinema, a radical attempt to forge a new, feminist filmic language. In thirteen distinct chapters it fuses provocative psychoanalytic theories about female representation and spectatorship with arresting imagery and an electronic score by Soft Machine’s Mike Ratledge. Digibeta. Sat, Apr 19 at 2, 7pm Sudden Impact (1983) 117min Directed by Clint Eastwood. With Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke. “Go ahead, make my day,” utters .44 Magnum-toting rogue cop Harry Callahan (Eastwood) in the lean, mean fourth installment of the Dirty Harry series. This time around, everyone’s favorite vigilante finds his soul mate in Jennifer (Locke), who is seeking revenge on the men who raped her and her sister. Wed, Apr 23 at 4:30, 9:30pm Xala (1975) 123min Directed by Ousmane Sembène. With Thierno Leye, Seune Samb. A snooty Senegalese businessman (Leye)—he drives a Mercedes and drinks water imported from France—blames his inability to get it up anymore on his three wives… but comeuppance awaits.
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