Thu September 19, 2013
Sorcerer, William Friedkin (U.S., 1977)
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at Pacific Film Archive (PFA) Theater
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In Conversation/William Friedkin & Michael Guillen
U.S. Premiere of Remastered Version!
Unlike The Exorcist, Sorcerer has nothing to do with an evil outside of man. Here the evil is firmly within, in the form of feral self-preservation. When an oil field fire flares out of control, several men (with Roy Scheider in the lead) are hired to transport truckloads of nitroglycerin through a treacherous jungle. The reward is a ticket out of the squalid Latin American port where they languish, but the penalty for failure is explosive oblivion. Based on The Wages of Fear, this existential thriller strips back its antiheroes to their barest instincts, then sets them loose on a bumpy road to hell. North American premiere of this restored version!
—Steve Seid
• Written by Walon Green, based on the novel The Wages of Fear by Georges Arnaud. Photographed by Dick Bush, John M. Stephens. With Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, Amidou. (121 mins, Color, DCP, From Paramount Pictures)
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U.S. Premiere of Remastered Version!
Unlike The Exorcist, Sorcerer has nothing to do with an evil outside of man. Here the evil is firmly within, in the form of feral self-preservation. When an oil field fire flares out of control, several men (with Roy Scheider in the lead) are hired to transport truckloads of nitroglycerin through a treacherous jungle. The reward is a ticket out of the squalid Latin American port where they languish, but the penalty for failure is explosive oblivion. Based on The Wages of Fear, this existential thriller strips back its antiheroes to their barest instincts, then sets them loose on a bumpy road to hell. North American premiere of this restored version!
—Steve Seid
• Written by Walon Green, based on the novel The Wages of Fear by Georges Arnaud. Photographed by Dick Bush, John M. Stephens. With Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, Amidou. (121 mins, Color, DCP, From Paramount Pictures)
In Conversation/William Friedkin & Michael Guillen
U.S. Premiere of Remastered Version!
Unlike The Exorcist, Sorcerer has nothing to do with an evil outside of man. Here the evil is firmly within, in the form of feral self-preservation. When an oil field fire flares out of control, several men (with Roy Scheider in the lead) are hired to transport truckloads of nitroglycerin through a treacherous jungle. The reward is a ticket out of the squalid Latin American port where they languish, but the penalty for failure is explosive oblivion. Based on The Wages of Fear, this existential thriller strips back its antiheroes to their barest instincts, then sets them loose on a bumpy road to hell. North American premiere of this restored version!
—Steve Seid
• Written by Walon Green, based on the novel The Wages of Fear by Georges Arnaud. Photographed by Dick Bush, John M. Stephens. With Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, Amidou. (121 mins, Color, DCP, From Paramount Pictures)
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U.S. Premiere of Remastered Version!
Unlike The Exorcist, Sorcerer has nothing to do with an evil outside of man. Here the evil is firmly within, in the form of feral self-preservation. When an oil field fire flares out of control, several men (with Roy Scheider in the lead) are hired to transport truckloads of nitroglycerin through a treacherous jungle. The reward is a ticket out of the squalid Latin American port where they languish, but the penalty for failure is explosive oblivion. Based on The Wages of Fear, this existential thriller strips back its antiheroes to their barest instincts, then sets them loose on a bumpy road to hell. North American premiere of this restored version!
—Steve Seid
• Written by Walon Green, based on the novel The Wages of Fear by Georges Arnaud. Photographed by Dick Bush, John M. Stephens. With Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, Amidou. (121 mins, Color, DCP, From Paramount Pictures)
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Pacific Film Archive (PFA) Theater
2575 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94720
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