Why The Driver’s Seat?
I read Muriel Sparks novella of The Driver’s Seat (having read The Ballard of Peckham Rye…), all of Sparks books are pretty transgressive … this one is billed as a metaphysical shocker …
Elizabeth Taylor is a kind of dowdy crazed technicolor dressed loon in this (if you’re being unkind). Her character is genuinely unhinged and it’s shot beautifully both inside and out with all kinds of mid-century modern furniture - there’s a pile of coloured chairs in one scene that is like a sculpture.
There is a scene in a department store which has so many uncomfortable silences in it.
The whole film is set to an incredible soundtrack and it’s a kind of detective novel on film - in Italy it was called Identikit which is totally fitting as it pieces together the parts of the leading characters life.
Doors 6.30pm
DJ 6.30pm to 7.30pm
FIlm 7.30pm Introduction with Chris McGill (Rebel Reel Cine Club)
7.45pm: The Drivers Seat
DJ Issey Carts before and after the film until Midnight
We’ll show Greer Lankton’s amazing images from Magic Hour’s new book - Greer Lankton’s iconic and startling doll sculptures as we have never seen them before: through her own eyes.
Magic Hour Press is proud to present the first monograph on the trans visionary artist Greer Lankton (1958–96), whose lifelike doll sculptures shocked 1980s New York. Lankton’s dolls, which she began making as a child and produced obsessively until her death at age 38, were a means to explore her fraught relationship with the human body. In the book’s 100 photographs, all shot by Lankton herself, these figures take on a life of their own, kvetching at a party, strolling along a beach, or lounging on a stoop in the East Village. Among this extraordinary cast of oddballs—usually femme, often freakish, alwaysradiating a glamorous confidence—we find characters of Lankton’s own invention alongside well-known icons such as Divine, CocoChanel, Andy Warhol and even Lankton herself.
The Driver’s Seat
Dir. Giuseppe Patroni Griffi
1974
Elizabeth Taylor, Andy Warhol
1hr 47 mins
QT at Middle Eight is a screening room is a luxurious space under the hotel at 69 Great Queen Street directly across from the site of the original Blitz Club. Between Covent Garden and Holborn in WC2B
Why The Driver’s Seat?
I read Muriel Sparks novella of The Driver’s Seat (having read The Ballard of Peckham Rye…), all of Sparks books are pretty transgressive … this one is billed as a metaphysical shocker …
Elizabeth Taylor is a kind of dowdy crazed technicolor dressed loon in this (if you’re being unkind). Her character is genuinely unhinged and it’s shot beautifully both inside and out with all kinds of mid-century modern furniture - there’s a pile of coloured chairs in one scene that is like a sculpture.
There is a scene in a department store which has so many uncomfortable silences in it.
The whole film is set to an incredible soundtrack and it’s a kind of detective novel on film - in Italy it was called Identikit which is totally fitting as it pieces together the parts of the leading characters life.
Doors 6.30pm
DJ 6.30pm to 7.30pm
FIlm 7.30pm Introduction with Chris McGill (Rebel Reel Cine Club)
7.45pm: The Drivers Seat
DJ Issey Carts before and after the film until Midnight
We’ll show Greer Lankton’s amazing images from Magic Hour’s new book - Greer Lankton’s iconic and startling doll sculptures as we have never seen them before: through her own eyes.
Magic Hour Press is proud to present the first monograph on the trans visionary artist Greer Lankton (1958–96), whose lifelike doll sculptures shocked 1980s New York. Lankton’s dolls, which she began making as a child and produced obsessively until her death at age 38, were a means to explore her fraught relationship with the human body. In the book’s 100 photographs, all shot by Lankton herself, these figures take on a life of their own, kvetching at a party, strolling along a beach, or lounging on a stoop in the East Village. Among this extraordinary cast of oddballs—usually femme, often freakish, alwaysradiating a glamorous confidence—we find characters of Lankton’s own invention alongside well-known icons such as Divine, CocoChanel, Andy Warhol and even Lankton herself.
The Driver’s Seat
Dir. Giuseppe Patroni Griffi
1974
Elizabeth Taylor, Andy Warhol
1hr 47 mins
QT at Middle Eight is a screening room is a luxurious space under the hotel at 69 Great Queen Street directly across from the site of the original Blitz Club. Between Covent Garden and Holborn in WC2B
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