Out of the Blue (Hopper, 1980): Prince Charles Cinema, 12.25pm
This 35mm presentation is also being shown on April 7th. You can find all the details here.
Chicago Reader review:
Dennis Hopper described Out of the Blue as a follow-up to Easy Rider,
even though it contains none of the same characters or that film's
fascination with motorcycle culture; rather, the connection is spiritual
and stylistic. As Reader emeritus
Jonathan Rosenbaum once wrote, the movie is defined by "the Hopper
flavor: relentlessly raunchy and downbeat, and informed throughout by
the kind of generational anguish and sense of doom that characterizes
both of his earlier films [Rider and The Last Movie]."
It's unmistakably a downer, beginning and ending with scenes of violent
death and featuring numerous depictions of drug abuse and emotional
violence along the way. It's also a haunting portrait of juvenile
delinquency that ranks among the most powerful in American cinema.
Ben Sachs
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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