Electra Glide in Blue (Guercio, 1973): BFI Southbank, NFT3, 8.45pm
This film, also being screened on August. 21st, is part of the great Moviedrome: Bringing the Cult TV Series to the Big Screen season.Time Out review:
Striking one-off by a former record producer. A weirdly funny black
comedy about an undersized cop, barely five feet tall but nursing a
dream of becoming a Clint Eastwood hero. He makes the grade (after a
fashion, since the dream turns sour) by way of an alarmingly funny echo
of Dr Strangelove (his mentor in detection has no use for
evidence, preferring instead to stand in the moonlight listening to his
inner voices) and some spiky mockery of police methods. The message may
be a little naïve when he finally opts for humanity rather than
authoritarianism, but the film has an extraordinary texture, peeling
away layer after layer to reveal dark depths of loneliness and despair
as this cop Candide learns that he isn't living in the best of all
possible worlds. And Conrad Hall's photography, especially of the Monument Valley landscapes, is a joy.
Tom Milne
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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