PART OF SERIES, "AMERICAN WOMAN: REFRAMING '70s CINEMA"
Brian De Palma's Carrie will screen this Friday and Sunday at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York. The screenings are part of the current series, "American Woman: Reframing ’70s Cinema," which began Movember 14th with a screening of Alan J. Pakula's Klute and a conversation with Molly Haskell. The series runs through January 4th. Here's a description:
When one talks of the venerated American cinema of the 1970s, the same titles invariably come up: The Godfather, The French Connection, The Conversation, Chinatown, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon... and that’s just the tip of the uber-male iceberg. In this screening series, we flip the script on this legendary era, retraining the spotlight on the women, both in front of and behind the camera, who equally made filmmaking what it was. This exploration of American cinema during the cultural ascendance of second-wave feminism centers on megastars such as Jane Fonda and Barbra Streisand and Diana Ross, critical darlings like Gena Rowlands and Barbara Loden, trailblazing filmmakers such as Barbara Kopple and Claudia Weill, fiction and documentaries alike. The series will be kicked off by an extended conversation with groundbreaking 1970s feminist film critic Molly Haskell and will feature a host of special guests and conversations around these unforgettable films, some of which remain controversial and provocative to this day, but all of which are classics worth seeing on the big screen.
And here is the series description of Carrie:
Dir. Brian De Palma. 1976, 98 mins. DCP. With Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, Nancy Allen, John Travolta. In the able hands of the suspense maestro Brian De Palma, Stephen King’s best-selling debut novel became one of the big screen’s greatest supernatural chillers, a wildly stylish and intensely emotional throat-grabber about a mercilessly teased—and telekinetic—high schooler who exacts outsized revenge on her peers at the prom. Grounding all the kinetic mayhem is a brilliant, Oscar-nominated Sissy Spacek, whose achingly humane portrayal of this misunderstood monster makes her plight all the more tender and scary. As her abusive, religious zealot mother, a staggering Piper Laurie, also Oscar-nominated, transformed into one of horror cinema’s most frightening villains. The grabber of an ending still has yet to be matched.