Capital Celluloid 2024 — Day 256: Wed Sep 18

Zardoz (Boorman, 1974): BFI Southbank, NFT1, 6pm

This presentation of a genuine cult classic includes aQ&A with writer-director John Boorman.

Chicago Reader review:
Probably John Boorman's most underrated film—an impossibly ambitious and pretentious but also highly inventive, provocative, and visually striking SF adventure with metaphysical trimmings (1974). Set in a postapocalyptic society in 2293, it stars Sean Connery as a warrior and noble savage with dawning awareness; interestingly enough, the plot in many ways resembles that of Boorman's best film, Point Blank.
Jonathan Rosenbaum

Here (and above) is the trailer. 

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