92YTribeca (Venue Partner)
200 Hudson St
212.601.1000
This event has passed.
- When
-
Saturday Feb 20, 2010 (8pm)
- Where
-
- Price
-
12.00
- Links
“While it's hard to think of Russ Meyer without picturing a set of fantastically proportioned boobs, the indie smut maverick also had a sharp wit to boot, which is also on display in Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965). This seminal exploitation flick follows a couple of bad girls as they trek across the country with a voracious appetite for violence and sex — sometimes both at once! As the trailer warns us, "the sweetest kittens have the sharpest claws."”
Chris Kompanek, Flavorpill
Part of the series Not Coming to a Theater Near You, presented by the film blog of the same name. Editors Rumsey Taylor, Leo Goldsmith and Jenny Jediny in person to introduce the film.
Distinguished for his inimitably subversive dialogue and fatalistic narratives, Russ Meyer is one of the true champions of independent film, having written, financed, cast, photographed and directed almost all of his features between 1959 and 1979. And within his singular body of work, Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! remains one of his most seminal films—a lean, mean road movie with enough wit, punk glamour and lethal karate chops to fill an entire career.
Greeted by a lukewarm audience upon its 1965 release, the film has come to be known as not only a quintessential exploitation film, but one of cinema's true benchmarks.
This screening will be preceded by a sampling of trailers from other Russ Meyer films.
Director: Russ Meyer. 83 mins. 1965. 35mm
