Capital Celluloid 2024 — Day 215: Tue Aug 6

Time of the Heathen (Kass, 1961): BFI Southbank, NFT2, 6,10pm


This remarkable film has its 4K restoration UK premiere (+ one more screening on August 12th)

BFI introduction:
An erratic wanderer crosses paths with a young Black boy while walking through rural America. What begins as an American neorealist film soon evolves into a psychedelic Western, exploring the impact of war, racism and trauma, which is perfectly distilled in the film’s hallucinatory climactic sequence. Set four years after the bombing of Hiroshima, this gripping cinematic debut by Peter Kass – his only feature film – was overlooked and forgotten for decades, but is now gloriously restored.

There are excellent fuller reviews here by J Hoberman and here via Screen Slate.

Here (and above) is the trailer.

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