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Cat People (1982); Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (2005)

Cat People (1982)
July 13, 2013 - 7:30 pm
Billy Wilder Theater

Cat People (1982)

"...beautiful, baroque, erotic and blunt.” - New York Times

Directed by Paul Schrader

Director Paul Schrader’s first feature based on script he didn’t write is neither a straight remake of the 1942 classic directed by Jacques Tourneur nor a straight horror film in its own right.  As with its main character, Irena (Nastassja Kinski), and her brother Paul (Malcolm McDowell) who exist between two worlds, human and animal, Cat People stakes out liminal ground between art house and genre filmmaking with an unnerving exploration of desire and obsession. 

MCA/Universal Pictures. Producer: Jerry Bruckheimer, Charles Fries. Based on the script by DeWitt Bodeen. Screenwriter: Alan Ormsby. Cinematographer: John Bailey. Editor: Jacqueline Cambas, Bud Smith. Cast: Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, John Heard, Annette O’Toole, Ruby Dee. 

35mm, color, 118 min.

Watch the trailer below.

Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (2005)

Directed by Paul Schrader

In his first big-budget, studio-distributed film since Cat People, a prequel to William Friedkin’s The Exorcist (1973), filmmaker Paul Schrader puts his own stamp on the character of Father Merrin (Stellan Skarsgård).  With allusions to The Searchers, Schrader’s Merrin is a man whose confrontations with evil, here in the aftermath of WWII, have cast him adrift from his faith and community.  Initially shelved by Morgan Creek which expected more gore and less disquisitions on God, Dominion proves an unsettling take on the genre.  

Warner Bros. Producer: James G. Robinson. Screenwriter: William Wisher, Caleb Carr. Cinematographer: Vittorio Storaro. Editor: Tim Silano. Cast: Stellan Skarsgård, Gabriel Mann, Clara Bellar, Billy Crawford, Ralph Brown. 

35mm, color, 117 min. 

Watch the trailer below.

Part of: 
Hardcore: The Films of Paul Schrader