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Seijun Suzuki: GATE OF FLESH on 35mm

Sat Apr 16 | 3:00 pm

"Pass beyond this portal and you enter a nether realm of juiced-up joy girls in color-coded party skirts; beef-jowled strong-arm bandits and leering American leathernecks; humanity with a rope looped through its nostrils; compassion tossed carelessly away, like a crucifix half buried in dirt. Beware this churning vortex of carnality and aggression, this venal postwar whirlpool, at whose center roils a startling vanishing point of unvanquished passion: a pair of soiled pink panties, property of the caterwauling sweater girl whom two cops are dragging, her splayed and stocking-clad legs clinched in their white-gloved fists, crotch-first into our view. Heed well the warning label stitched within those knickers: 'Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.' " Chuck Stephens, The Criterion Collection

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Co-presented with Northwest Film Forum
35mm prints!

Part of Action, Anarchy and Audacity: A Seijun Suzuki Retrospective

On the occasion of the publication of Time and Place are Nonsense: The Films of Seijun Suzuki by Tom Vick, the Grand Illusion Cinema and Northwest Film Forum are pleased to present a touring retrospective of Suzukis films. Series curated by Tom Vick, curator of film, Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution, and co-organized with the Japan Foundation.