Reel Oddities: Sorcerer
Schedule
Wed Aug 13 2025 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm
UTC-07:00Location
206 5th Ave SE , Olympia, WA, United States, Washington 98501 | Olympia, WA
August 6, 13, 20 & 27, 2025Reel Oddities: Sorcerer
A hallucinatory journey into the heart of darkness, William Friedkin’s pulse-pounding reimagining of the suspense classic The Wages of Fear was dismissed upon its release, only to be recognized decades later as one of the New Hollywood’s boldest auteur statements. In a remote Latin American village, four desperate fugitives—a New Jersey gangster (Roy Scheider), a Mexican assassin (Francisco Rabal), an unscrupulous Parisian businessman (Bruno Cremer), and an Arab terrorist (Amidou)—take on a doomed mission: transporting two trucks full of highly explosive nitroglycerin through the treacherous jungle. Aided by Tangerine Dream’s otherworldly synth score, Friedkin turns each bump in the road into a tour de force of cold-sweat tension—conjuring a hauntingly nihilistic vision of a world ruled by chance and fate.
Dir: William Friedkin / 1977 / US / 121 min
“The director at his most brilliant and original.” – Peter Keough, Boston Globe
SCREENING: WED 8/6 7PM; WED 8/13 7PM; WED 8/20 7PM; WED 8/27 7PM
$13 GA & $10 OFS. Tickets are available at the box office 30 minutes before showtimes.
