14.09.2024 | TERMINAL ISLAND (US 1973, Stephanie Rothman)
Retrospective | BAD GIRLS GO TO HEAVEN
US 1973, D: Stephanie Rothman, A: Ena Hartman, Barbara Leigh, Tom Selleck, 88’, English OV, 35mm
An exploitation film that combines the most diverse motifs of 1970s market-based genre cinema and doing so, shakes up male-dominated genre conventions: Stephanie Rothman’s first and only action film is part outdoor prison film, part socio-critical dystopia à la ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK: ”No Walls, No Guards, No Rules”. In order to banish murderers from society, they are deported to an isolated island, Terminal Island, without further ado. Is it only the law of the jungle that applies there, or does the isolation also harbour the possibility of imagining a new, freer society?
| Sat 14 Sept | Luru Kino in der Spinnerei |
| 8 pm | With an introduction to the evening’s double feature by Silvia Szymanski (author and film critic) € 7 (6 reduced) |
