The PCC is screening the noir classic Kiss Me Deadly. Based on a Mickey Spillane pulp fiction. This classic was a source of inspiration for Quentin Tarantino. The scenes in Pulp Fiction of the glow of the contents of the never seen briefcase a direct homage to Kiss Me Deadly.Kiss Me Deadly promises ‘red-blood kisses’ and ‘white-hot thrills’, a noir classic that has lost none of its power to shock and surprise. Private investigator Mike Hammer, a thuggish, macho anti-hero, is drawn into a bottomless pit of conspiracy and corruption after picking up a mysterious and beautiful hitch-hiker. Exposing the black soul of America in the atomic age, this is as hard-boiled as it gets.
Classic screening of Mickey Spillane's Kiss Me Deadly directted by Robert Aldrich.
Where
The Prince Charles Cinema
7 Leicester Place, WC2
When
8:00, Weds 10 Feb, 2010
For more info head over to the Prince Charles Cinema website.
Film students and aspiring film writers are invited to enter the Electric Sheep Magazine film writing competition: write a 200-word review of Kiss Me Deadly and send it to ladyvengeance@electricsheepmagazine.com, marked 'Film writing competition' in the subject line.
Jason Wood, director of programming at Curzon Cinemas, film journalist and author of 100 American Independent Films and 100 Road Movies among others, will select the best review.
The selected review will be published on the Electric Sheep website. This is a regular feature of the Electric Sheep Film Club.
Deadline
Thursday 25 February, 2010
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