A young woman is found frozen in a ditch; through flashbacks, we discover how her desire for freedom led to her demise. As part of Liverpool Biennial 2018, FACT and Picturehouse present weekly screenings of the works of Agnès Varda, and a personally curated set of films to accompany her own.
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In 1970s France, the lives of two women intertwine during the progress of the women’s movement. As part of Liverpool Biennial 2018, FACT and Picturehouse present weekly screenings of the works of Agnès Varda, and a personally curated set of films to accompany her own.
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An emotional and spiritual transference ensues between two women in this psychologically driven masterpiece. As part of Liverpool Biennial 2018, FACT and Picturehouse present weekly screenings of the works of Agnès Varda, and a personally curated set of films to accompany her own.
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In a world of shadows, Patricia Highsmith looms large in terms of crime writing and exploring the dark and twisted underbelly of the human psyche. In Hitchcock’s adaptation of one of her earliest works a psychotic socialite confronts a pro tennis star with a theory on how two complete strangers can get away with murder… a theory that he plans to implement.
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In a brilliant piece of casting, celebrated French chanteur Charles Aznavour stars in François Truffaut’s whip-smart, scintillating second film – a combination of mischievous, tongue-in-cheek homage to American noir and effervescent, inventive Nouvelle Vague.
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When private eye Philip Marlowe is visited by an old friend, this sets in motion a series of events in which he’s hired to search for a missing novelist and finds himself on the wrong side of vicious gangsters.
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When a gifted but washed-up screenwriter with a hair-trigger temper becomes the prime suspect in a brutal murder, the only person who can supply an alibi for him is a seductive neighbour with her own troubled past.
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In one of the best performances of his career, Robert Mitchum plays small-time gunrunner Eddie “Fingers” Coyle in an adaptation by Peter Yates of George V. Higgins’ acclaimed novel. Directed with a sharp eye for its gritty locales and an open heart for its less-than-heroic characters, this is one of the true treasures of 1970s Hollywood filmmaking.
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Directed by Carl Franklin and brilliantly shot by Tak Fujimoto, this is one of the few novels by black hard-boiled writer Walter Mosley to make it to the screen. Following the exploits of Watts detective Easy Rawlins, the film takes a long hard look at institutionalised racism in America and the nefarious nature of US politics.
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Kubrick’s account of an ambitious racetrack robbery is one of Hollywood’s tautest, twistiest noirs. Aided by a radically time-shuffling narrative, razor-sharp dialogue from pulp novelist Jim Thompson, and a phenomenal cast of character actors, The Killing is offers a cold-blooded punch to the gut.
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Elmore Leonard is undoubtedly one of the finest and most prolific of contemporary pulp writers and his novel Rum Punch is given a surprisingly mature transfer to the big screen by Tarantino. A work that looks at race and class, the film features a compelling central performance from Pam Grier as the eponymous airline stewardess who becomes embroiled in a world of crime.
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L.B. Jeffries, a photographer with a broken leg, takes up the art of spying on his Greenwich Village neighbours during a summer heat wave. One of cinema’s finest observations of the act of looking, this is perhaps the best-known adaptation of a work by prolific, somewhat underrated New York writer Cornell Woolrich.
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