UN FLIC AND TOKYO DRIFTER
This week’s double bill is all about the period from the mid
sixties to the mid seventies where the term gangster pop was coined. First up
is Suzuki’s sublime TOKYO DRIFTER still considered an art house masterpiece due
to its surreal pop art feel running from start to finish. With its dazzling
visuals, lavish sets of riotous colour it has got to be one of the most
stylised gangster movies of the 60’s replicated by many but never equalled. Next up is Jean-Pierre Melville’s final
film UN FLIC with costume design and styling by Yves Saint Laurent this
wonderfully fatalistic look at loss and deception, is a distillation of
Melville’s creative interest and his preoccupation with the Japanese Yakuza and
their codes of loyalty and honour previously visited in LE SAMOURAI. The two
filmmakers take complexly different routes with the crime thriller genre with
one common thread creative licence.
SUNDAY FROM 7PM
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