Jean-Luc Godard’s Made in USA at the Castro
Made in U.S.A. (1966, 90 min, new 35 mm scope print) takes place in some bizarre hybrid Franco-American imaginary world where a Parisian suburb is called Atlantic City, Anna Karina’s trenchcoated P.I. and/or journalist Paula Nelson recalls a long tradition of Hollywood gumshoes, and various characters are named David Goodis, Donald Siegel, Paul Widmark, Richard Nixon, and Robert McNamara. Based on a crime novel by Richard Stark (aka Donald Westlake), Made in U.S.A. incorporates events of the contemporaneous Ben Barka affair, in which a Marxist leader of the Moroccan left was kidnapped, tortured, and killed by the French secret police and Moroccan authorities, and thus, in its mixture of cartoonish impossibility and up-to-the-minute real life intrigue, realizes Nelson’s observation that she is taking part in “a film by Walt Disney, but played by Humphrey Bogart—and therefore apolitical film.” - Michael Joshua Rowin, Reverse Shot
Wed, Sat, Sun: 1:00pm, 3:00pm, 5:00pm, 7:00pm, 9:00pm
Thur, Fri, Mon, Tu: 7:00pm, 9:00pm
Location: Castro Theatre, 429 Castro street, San Francisco
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Written on Apr. 04, 09
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