Part of Midnight Movies
Fri, May 15 at Midnight: Introduction from Belcourt projectionist Bob Roberts
“The Gun is good! The Penis is evil!” Writer-director John Boorman’s fabulously bizarre, visually stunning science fiction/fantasy fable stars Sean Connery as the spanner in the works of a dreamily languid future society. A primitive Adam, Connery’s Zed charges like a bull through the china shop of a civilization from which all signs of lusty humanity have been drained. Co-starring the fascinating Charlotte Rampling, and featuring spectacular production design by Anthony Pratt and stunning cinematography by Geoffrey Unsworth.
This one’s been on our longlist for a midnight screening for ages, and we’re finally bringing the infamously messy satire of the ‘60s and ‘70s counterculture to the Belcourt big screen in all its oft-memed diaper-clad-Scotsman glory. Don’t miss it! Zardoz has spoken.
“Probably John Boorman’s most underrated film—an impossibly ambitious and pretentious but also highly inventive, provocative, and visually striking SF adventure with metaphysical trimmings.” —Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader “The movie is an exercise in self-indulgence (if often an interesting one) by Boorman, who more or less had carte blanche to do a personal project after his immensely successful DELIVERANCE… Every once in a while, a movie like that comes along; a movie you’ve got to see so that you, too, can be in the dark about it.” —Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times (Jan 1, 1974)
