Sunday 03.06.18 | 16.00 | 1hr 20m | 2K Restoration
Awkward loner Steven Penny (John Paizs) turns out bizarre scenarios for colour crime movies. Steven wants to turn in the best colour crime movie ever, but he has a problem – he can only write beginnings and ends to his scripts. No middles! Living above a family garage in suburbia and befriended by the landlord’s ten-year-old daughter (Eva Kovacs), Steven toils on his scripts, zany ideas based on get-rich-quick schemes. Finally frustrated by his creative block, he sets out for Kansas to meet Dr Jolly (Neil Lawrie), a mysterious script doctor who promises to put him out of his misery.
“Imagine,” a recent review ran, “if Steve Buscemi’s character from Ghost World made a movie, with levels of deadpan that make Jim Jarmusch look like Baz Luhrmann…but with a lurid perversion in every lovingly Bolexed frame that would make Baz blush.” This unsung deadpan masterpiece screens from fully-restored 2K DCP.
Star Eva Kovacs joins us for a Q&A via Skype following the screening.