The Hunger (Scott, 1983): ICA Cinema, 9pm
This film, which is also screening on Sept 2, as part of a Bowiefest weekend at the ICA (details here), was the late director Tony Scott's film debut.
Time Out review:
'Deneuve is the ageless, possibly final survivor of an ancient
immortal race dependent on humans for both sustenance and companionship.
Her superior blood allows her lovers a triple lifetime until they
ultimately succumb to instant decline. Not all of this is apparent in
the film, where style rules at the expense of coherence. But that style
is often glorious, from a bloody sun sinking over a gothic hi-tech
Manhattan skyline to living quarters that are sumptuous. Neat touches of
grim humour also: Deneuve and Bowie manhunt in a disco as Bauhaus sing
'Bela Lugosi's Dead'; and Bowie rots away in a hospital waiting room
where the 20 minutes wait becomes a subjective century of ageing. Visual
sensualities will have a feast.'
Here is the trailer.
There's also a great Hitchcock today in the director's full retrospective:
The Lady Vanishes (Hitchcock, 1938): BFI Southbank
This film, which is part of the Alfred Hitchock season, is also screening on Sept 2nd, 4th, 6th & 8th. More details here.
Chicago Reader review:
'Alfred Hitchcock's masterful 1938 spy thriller, with
Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave searching for kidnapped agent
Dame May Whitty aboard a trans-European express train, pursued all the
while by sinister Nazi agents. This is vintage Hitchcock, with the
pacing and superb editing that marked not only his 30s style but
eventually every film that had any aspirations whatever to achieving
suspense and rhythm.'
Dan Druker
Here is the trailer.
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