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Re-Make/Re-Model: Point Blank
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Thu Nov 24
7 pm
Re-Make/Re-Model: Point Blank at Toronto Underground Cinema
The film Steven Soderbergh stole everything from, John Boorman’s 1967 crime thriller casts Lee Marvin as Walker, a no-nonsense gangster out for revenge after his partner (John Vernon) and wife (Sharon Acker) double-cross him. Drawing equally from the stylistic palettes of film noir and French New Wave (and Richard Stark’s source novel, The Hunter), Boorman’s film strikes a half-stark, half-psychedelic balance. Walker also proves the best Lee Marvin tough-guy character’s not an out-and-out parody of a Lee Marvin tough-guy character. As the original theatrical poster put it, “There are two kinds of people in his up-tight world: his victims and his women. And sometimes you can’t tell them apart.” Indeed!
Toronto Underground Cinema 186 Spadina Ave., Toronto, ON
The film Steven Soderbergh stole everything from, John Boorman’s 1967 crime thriller casts Lee Marvin as Walker, a no-nonsense gangster out for revenge after his partner (John Vernon) and wife (Sharon Acker) double-cross him. Drawing equally from the stylistic palettes of film noir and French New Wave (and Richard Stark’s source novel, The Hunter), Boorman’s film strikes a half-stark, half-psychedelic balance. Walker also proves the best Lee Marvin tough-guy character’s not an out-and-out parody of a Lee Marvin tough-guy character. As the original theatrical poster put it, “There are two kinds of people in his up-tight world: his victims and his women. And sometimes you can’t tell them apart.” Indeed!
Updated 11/15/2011
