No 1: Stolen Desire (Imamura, 1958): ICA Cinema, 6.30pm
This is the opening night of the Shōhei Imamura season at the ICA. Full details here.Chicago Reader review:
Shohei Imamura’s first feature (1958), shot in black-and-white ‘Scope,
deals with a form of working-class Kabuki that attracted him as a
college student, but its story about an itinerant troupe performing a
striptease version of the form near Osaka isn’t very inspired.
Nevertheless, Imamura characteristically finds some vitality in
vulgarity—though his more prosaic working title, “Tent Theatre,” was
rejected by the production company.
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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No 2: Rosemary's Baby (Polanski, 1968): Genesis Cinema, 6pm
This film will be followed by a group discussion in the bar area with Nick Walker of the Cult Classic Collective.Chicago Reader review:
The treacherous-mate theme that has been a staple of “women's pictures” since Gaslight
gets its ultimate, most agonizing development in this 1968 story about a
young woman (Mia Farrow) who discovers her husband has sold her body
for use by a witches' coven. The horror is more clinical than
supernatural, as Polanski transforms Ira Levin's story into a metaphor
for the loss of identity induced by pregnancy. A very sophisticated,
very effective piece of work spun from primal images, with an excellent
cast that includes John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer, Ralph
Bellamy, Maurice Evans, Patsy Kelly, and Elisha Cook Jr.
Dave Kehr
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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