94 mins |
Rated
TBC
Out of the Blue
(Dennis Hopper, 1980, 94 min)
Sun June 4, 4:00 pm
Wed June 7, 7:00 pm
“Subvert normality… Destroy… Kill all hippies.” Unlikely teen star Linda Manz gives one of the greatest adolescent performances in cinema as Cebe, a budding punk whose disastrous home life only gets more complicated when her ex-truck driver dad (Dennis Hopper, returning to the director’s chair after a decade in movie jail) gets sprung out of the can and comes home, dragging bad habits and repressed memories back with him. Hopper was deep into his various self-immolating addictions at this point in his career, but the unflappable Manz counters her director’s shambolic energy with an unforgettable performance of poise, wit, and swagger.
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Out of the Blue
(Dennis Hopper, 1980, 94 min)
Sun June 4, 4:00 pm
Wed June 7, 7:00 pm
“Subvert normality… Destroy… Kill all hippies.” Unlikely teen star Linda Manz gives one of the greatest adolescent performances in cinema as Cebe, a budding punk whose disastrous home life only gets more complicated when her ex-truck driver dad (Dennis Hopper, returning to the director’s chair after a decade in movie jail) gets sprung out of the can and comes home, dragging bad habits and repressed memories back with him. Hopper was deep into his various self-immolating addictions at this point in his career, but the unflappable Manz counters her director’s shambolic energy with an unforgettable performance of poise, wit, and swagger.
