PART OF SERIES "SEE IT BIG! JACK FISK" March 11 - April 1
The Museum Of The Moving Image begins a film series tonight titled, "See It Big! Jack Fisk." Fisk-designed sets will be all over the big screen in films such as Brian De Palma's Carrie, which screens Saturday March 12 at 4:30pm, sandwiched in between Fisk collaborations with Terrence Malick (To The Wonder) and David Lynch (Mulholland Drive). De Palma's Phantom Of The Paradise will screen at 7pm on Sunday, March 20, and then the following Saturday, March 26, features a film that Fisk also directed, Raggedy Man, starring his wife Sissy Spacek, at 4:30pm, followed by a can't-miss-if-you're-in-the-area double-feature that evening made up of Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz' Messiah Of Evil and William Witney's Darktown Strutters. Of Messiah Of Evil, the Museum Of The Moving Image description reads, "One of the great unsung horror movies of the 1970s, this trancelike, visually stunning creep-out stars Medium Cool’s Marianna Hill as a young woman searching for her missing father, getting deeper and deeper into the world of the occult. According to cult film expert Tim Lucas, Messiah of Evil features 'some of the most elegant cinematography and uncannily unnerving art direction ever afforded an American horror film.'” Of Darktown Strutters, the description reads, in part, "Gaudy, gritty, and fantastical, Darktown Strutters was one of the most eccentric productions designed by Jack Fisk during the wild first decade of his career." Film Comment's Margaret Barton-Fumo calls Darktown Strutters "a cartoonish film that proudly abandons any semblance of reality."
Updated: Saturday, March 12, 2016 2:45 PM CST
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