Music Box Theatre
3733 N Southport Ave
773.871.6604
This event has passed.
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- When
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Mar 12, 2010 – Apr 2, 2010
Daily
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- Price
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$9.25
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“"Dickens on bad acid" is a description that captures the unsparing, paranoiac nature of the Red Riding Quartet, David Peace's cult novels about the far-reaching tentacles of the corrupt West Yorkshire police force in the '70s and '80s. Recently, Tony Grisoni adapted three into feature-length telefilms for Channel 4 and, in brief, British TV giveth again: this inky triptych nears Bacon-like nightmarishness and ravishment even though each is helmed by a different talent shooting in a different format. Julian Jarrold (gritty 16mm), James Marsh (elegant 35mm), and Anand Tucker (digital widescreen) magnificently exhume a past mired in dark and grit, one where the cutthroat police toast "to the North, where we do what we want."”
Jason Jude Chan, Flavorpill
The Music Box says:
Sure to be one of the cinematic events of the year, Red Riding is a mesmerizing neo-noir epic based on factual events and adapted for the screen by Tony Grisoni (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) from David Peace's electrifying series of novels. An official selection of the Telluride, New York, Chicago and AFI Festivals, and acclaimed by critics an eminent accomplishment, the trilogy follows several characters in intertwining story-lines united by the horror wrought by the "Yorkshire Ripper," a serial killer who terrorized northwest England in the 1970s and '80s.
