Blow Out — Sunday Classics! Noirvember
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“You got your choice. You can be crazy or dead.” Noirvember prevails with Brian De Palma's 'Blow Out', inhabited by a real cinematic intelligence.🎥🎛️
While recording sound effects for a slasher flick, Jack Terry stumbles upon a real-life horror: a car careening off a bridge and into a river. Jack jumps into the water and fishes out Sally from the car, but the other passenger is already dead — a governor intending to run for president. As Jack does some investigating of his tapes, and starts a perilous romance with Sally, he enters a tangled web of conspiracy that might leave him dead.🎙️🔪
"But 'Blow Out' stands by itself. It reminds us of the violence of “Dressed to K*ll,” the startling images of 'The Fury,' the clouded identities of 'Sisters,' the uncertainty of historical 'facts' from 'Obsession,' and it ends with the bleak nihilism of 'Carrie'. But it moves beyond those films, because this time De Palma is more successful than ever before at populating his plot with three-dimensional characters." ROGER EBERT⭐
A Sunday Classic!
Noirvember is a November celebration of film noir, highlighting cynical, shadow-drenched 1940s and ’50s Hollywood crime dramas along with their modern sci-fi, international, and neo-noir successors.🎬
📆 Showtime:
Sunday, November 29 @ 2:15 PM
🎟️ Get your tickets at thekfs.ca or at the box office when the doors open!
While recording sound effects for a slasher flick, Jack Terry stumbles upon a real-life horror: a car careening off a bridge and into a river. Jack jumps into the water and fishes out Sally from the car, but the other passenger is already dead — a governor intending to run for president. As Jack does some investigating of his tapes, and starts a perilous romance with Sally, he enters a tangled web of conspiracy that might leave him dead.🎙️🔪
"But 'Blow Out' stands by itself. It reminds us of the violence of “Dressed to K*ll,” the startling images of 'The Fury,' the clouded identities of 'Sisters,' the uncertainty of historical 'facts' from 'Obsession,' and it ends with the bleak nihilism of 'Carrie'. But it moves beyond those films, because this time De Palma is more successful than ever before at populating his plot with three-dimensional characters." ROGER EBERT⭐
A Sunday Classic!
Noirvember is a November celebration of film noir, highlighting cynical, shadow-drenched 1940s and ’50s Hollywood crime dramas along with their modern sci-fi, international, and neo-noir successors.🎬
📆 Showtime:
Sunday, November 29 @ 2:15 PM
🎟️ Get your tickets at thekfs.ca or at the box office when the doors open!
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