Directed by Arthur Penn
Arthur Penn’s New Wave-influenced, jazz riff on film noir and post-war alienation was years ahead of its time and still casts a hypnotic spell as Warren Beatty’s stand-up comic tries to out run the mob.
35mm, b/w, 93 min.
The hunter and the hunted!
Mickey One (1965); Blast of Silence (1961) @ Million Dollar Theater
May 16, 2012 - 7:30 pm
Restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive. Funding provided by Sony Pictures Entertainment.
Mickey One (1965)
Blast of Silence (1961)
Directed by Allen Baron
Get deep inside the rage-fuelled psyche of a brutal hit man as he stalks the city and his prey in what Bright Lights Film Journal called, “the great lost masterpiece of film noir; a twilit, deathward emanation of everything that had underlain the form from its beginnings.”
35mm, b/w, 77 min.
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