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June at the Trylon
There is perhaps no sweeter satisfaction than seeing some scumbag who has done your protagonist wrong be fed a dish of just desserts. Our times may demand level heads, but our cinema gets to go wild.
(1973, DCP, 97m, Japanese w/English subtitles) dir Toshiya Fujita w/Meiko Kaji, Toshio Kurosawa, Masaaki Daimon. A young girl (Kaji) whose family has been ruthlessly destroyed by a gang of criminals is raised to exact coldblooded retribution. Fujita’s influential film perfectly balances violence and beauty. FRI/SAT 7:00 9:00 SUN 3:00 5:00 At Perisphere: Rowan Smith asks what […]
Showings: Jun. 2 7:00, 9:00, Jun. 3 7:00, 9:00, Jun. 4 3:00, 5:00
(1967, 35mm, 92m) dir John Boorman w/Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Vernon. Double-crossed and left for dead in a heist gone wrong, Walker (Marvin) will stop at nothing to get even. Boorman’s direction takes a familiar premise and makes Point Blank a paragon of revenge cinema. Read essays by Matt Clark and Kevin Maher at […]
Showings: Jun. 9 7:00, 9:00, Jun. 10 7:00, 9:00, Jun. 11 3:00, 5:00
(2009, 35mm, 153m) dir Quentin Tarantino w/Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Brad Pitt. Once upon a time in Nazi-occupied France, Shosanna’s (Laurent) entire family is slain by German Colonel Hans Landa (Waltz). Later, as a movie theater owner in Paris, she gets a chance for redress. Tarantino plays on fifty years of exploitation revenge cinema for […]
Showings: Jun. 16 7:00, Jun. 17 7:00, Jun. 18 3:00, 6:00
(1961, DCP, 98m) dir Samuel Fuller w/Cliff Robertson, Dolores Dorn, Beatrice Kay. Fuller’s take on The Count of Monte Cristo follows Tolly Devlin (Robertson), who as a teenager saw his father killed by four mobsters. After discovering their names, he sets out to destroy them one by one. For Perisphere, Kevin Maher writes an ode […]
Showings: Jun. 23 7:00, Jun. 24 9:15, Jun. 25 3:00
(1994, DCP, 102m) dir Alex Proyas w/Brandon Lee, Michael Wincott, Tony Todd. One year after Eric Draven’s (Lee) murder, a crow brings him back from the grave to avenge his death as well as the rape and killing of his fiancée. Lee’s famed final film is both stylish and sensitive. On Perisphere, Finn Odum tackles […]
Showings: Jun. 23 9:00, Jun. 24 7:00, Jun. 25 5:00
(2002, 35mm, 129m, Korean w/English subtitles) dir Park Chan-wook w/Song Kang-ho, Shin Ha-kyun, Bae Doona. When Ryu (Ha-kyun) discovers that his sister needs a kidney transplant, he kidnaps the daughter of an electronics giant to pay for the surgery, leading to tragedy. Mr. Vengeance is a bleak depiction of poverty and the costs of violence. […]
Showings: Jun. 30 7:00, 9:30, Jul. 1 7:00, 9:30, Jul. 2 5:45, 8:15