114 mins |
Rated
R
Directed by Alan J. Pakula
Starring Roy Scheider, Charles Cioffi, Dorothy Tristan, Donald Sutherland, Jane Fonda
7:30pm Klute (dir. Alan J. Pakula, 1971, US)
Featuring a brief introduction by Dr. Rick Warner!
A film noirish psychological thriller, Klute follows the private detective John Klute (Donald Sutherland) as he investigates the disappearance of a business executive and becomes involved with Bree Daniels (Jane Fonda), a sex worker who is under serious threat, likely from one of her clients. Klute is one of three 1970s “paranoid thrillers” directed by Alan J. Pakula in collaboration with cinematographer Gordon Willis (the other two being All the President’s Men and The Parallax View). A mood of anxiety and occasionally horror runs through the film, resulting in large part from an atmospheric play of darkness and obscurity that conspires with the darkness of the movie theater. Klute demonstrates how the narrative aspects of suspense (how much we know about what’s going to happen) may be overtaken by perceptual and atmospheric forms of suspense (how little we are able to perceive despite the fact that we certainly feel the presence of something menacing). Fonda deservedly earned an Oscar for her remarkable performance.
Part of the film series The Rebirth of Suspense, co-hosted by Kino Corner in conjunction with the publication of Dr. Rick Warner’s new book, The Rebirth of Suspense: Slowness and Atmosphere in Cinema, Columbia University Press.
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7:30pm Klute (dir. Alan J. Pakula, 1971, US)
Featuring a brief introduction by Dr. Rick Warner!
A film noirish psychological thriller, Klute follows the private detective John Klute (Donald Sutherland) as he investigates the disappearance of a business executive and becomes involved with Bree Daniels (Jane Fonda), a sex worker who is under serious threat, likely from one of her clients. Klute is one of three 1970s “paranoid thrillers” directed by Alan J. Pakula in collaboration with cinematographer Gordon Willis (the other two being All the President’s Men and The Parallax View). A mood of anxiety and occasionally horror runs through the film, resulting in large part from an atmospheric play of darkness and obscurity that conspires with the darkness of the movie theater. Klute demonstrates how the narrative aspects of suspense (how much we know about what’s going to happen) may be overtaken by perceptual and atmospheric forms of suspense (how little we are able to perceive despite the fact that we certainly feel the presence of something menacing). Fonda deservedly earned an Oscar for her remarkable performance.
Part of the film series The Rebirth of Suspense, co-hosted by Kino Corner in conjunction with the publication of Dr. Rick Warner’s new book, The Rebirth of Suspense: Slowness and Atmosphere in Cinema, Columbia University Press.
