Witch Hunt (1994); Touch (1997)

July 29, 2013 - 7:30 pm

Billy Wilder Theater

Free admission!

Witch Hunt (1994)

Directed by Paul Schrader

Dennis Hopper stars as a private eye with a loaded name, H. Phillip Lovecraft, in director Paul Schrader’s tongue-in-cheek neo-noir made for HBO. In an alternate Los Angeles circa 1950 where witchcraft is commonplace, Hopper’s magic-wary gumshoe is on a case that could blow the whole town sky high. A multi-barbed satire of Hollywood and Cold War paranoia (Eric Bogosian plays a conservative senator with a plot to rid the world of magic), Witch Hunt finds Schrader having a bit fun.

HBO Films. Producer: Gale Ann Hurd, Michael R. Joyce. Screenwriter: Joseph Dougherty. Cinematographer: Jean Yves Escoffier. Editor: Kristina Boden. Cast: Dennis Hopper, Penelope Ann Miller, Eric Bogosian, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Julian Sands.

35mm, color, 100 min.

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Touch (1997)

Directed by Paul Schrader

Atypical for Elmore Leonard, his novel “Touch” contains a number of elements familiar to writer-director Paul Schrader’s body of work. Juvenal (Skeet Ulrich) is a stigmatic who abandons miracle work in Latin America for the more low-key calling of counseling addicts in Los Angeles. When his secret gets out, however, he’s pursued by a conman evangelist (Christopher Walken) and an Opus Dei-type (Tom Arnold), each of whom hopes to use Juvenal for his own ends.

United Artists. Producer: Lila Cazes, Fida Attieh. Screenwriter: Paul Schrader. Based on the novel by Elmore Leonard. Cinematographer: Ed Lachman. Editor: Cara Silverman. Cast: Skeet Ulrich, Bridget Fonda, Christopher Walken, Tom Arnold, Paul Mazursky.

35mm, color, 96 min.

Part of:

Hardcore: The Films of Paul Schrader

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Witch Hunt (1994); Touch (1997)

Witch Hunt (1994)

Touch (1997)

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