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.
7pm: DOORS - DJ
7.30pm: Introduction with Chris McGill (Rebel Reel Cine Club)
7.45pm: The Drivers Seat
DJ until Midnight
The Driver’s Seat
Dir. Giuseppe Patroni Griffi
1974
Elizabeth Taylor, Andy Warhol
1hr 47 mins
All Is Joy is a private members bar and events space, signing up will get you a temporary membership for this screening as well as your permanent membership of Rebel Reel Cine Club which comes with your ticket.
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.
7pm: DOORS - DJ
7.30pm: Introduction with Chris McGill (Rebel Reel Cine Club)
7.45pm: The Drivers Seat
DJ until Midnight
The Driver’s Seat
Dir. Giuseppe Patroni Griffi
1974
Elizabeth Taylor, Andy Warhol
1hr 47 mins
All Is Joy is a private members bar and events space, signing up will get you a temporary membership for this screening as well as your permanent membership of Rebel Reel Cine Club which comes with your ticket.
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