Dillinger Is Dead

NEW 35mm PRINT! ► A rarity ripe for rediscovery, this first major work by iconoclast Marco Ferreri — the Buñuel of the Italian cinema, responsible for some of the most scandalous and subversive films of the 1970s (including La Grande Bouffe and Tales of Ordinary Madness) — was never released in North America, until now. "After a hard day’s work designing this year’s gas masks, industrial engineer Glauco (Michel Piccoli) comes home to a cold dinner, a sleeping wife (Anita Pallenberg, Keith Richards’s then-girlfriend), and an aloof maid (Annie Girardot). The answer to his petit-bourgeois boredom? Prepare a gourmet meal, putter about, and reconstruct an antique revolver that may or may not have been owned by John Dillinger. A mind-blowing, multi-layered, and psychedelicized celebration of anarchy in life and cinema, Marco Ferreri’s unjustly neglected masterpiece is a cult classic awaiting its cult, anchored by a stunning lead performance and an amazing pop soundtrack" (Janus Films). "Engrossing...Ferreri’s breakthrough film is as much a counterculture classic as Performance — with which it shares a chamber setting, gender-identity subtexts, climactic gunshots and, of course, Anita Pallenberg” (Tony Rayns, Time Out). "Forty years later, the final moments of Dillinger Is Dead can still send an audience startled and scintillated into the night" (Scott Foundas, Village Voice). Colour, 35mm, in Italian with English subtitles. 90 mins.

Plays in a double-bill with Roy Andersson's You The Living.