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Thursday, December 1: Eurocomics Psychocinema: Master Kriminals
$5 per movie / $8 double feature
$5 per movie / $8 double feature
7:30: KiLiNK Istanbul’da (Yilmaz Atadeniz dir., 1967)
In 1962 Angela and Luciana Giussani created the Italian super-criminal Diabolik, a villainous comic book protagonist who scoffed at the law in superb style. Legions of imitators followed, including Kriminal, a cold blooded master thief in a skull-faced body stocking, who was in turn ripped off in the photo-comics series Killing. Turkish filmmaker Yilmaz Atadeniz extended the chain of bootleged influence one link further, directing a trilogy of freewheeling black and white features starring KiLiNK, now a skeletoid Turkish master criminal with an eye for the dames and a thirst for world domination. In this first film of the series, KiLiNK faces off against the equally unauthorized do-gooder antagonist “Superhero,” a beefy mash-up of Superman, Shazam and the Phantom.
In 1962 Angela and Luciana Giussani created the Italian super-criminal Diabolik, a villainous comic book protagonist who scoffed at the law in superb style. Legions of imitators followed, including Kriminal, a cold blooded master thief in a skull-faced body stocking, who was in turn ripped off in the photo-comics series Killing. Turkish filmmaker Yilmaz Atadeniz extended the chain of bootleged influence one link further, directing a trilogy of freewheeling black and white features starring KiLiNK, now a skeletoid Turkish master criminal with an eye for the dames and a thirst for world domination. In this first film of the series, KiLiNK faces off against the equally unauthorized do-gooder antagonist “Superhero,” a beefy mash-up of Superman, Shazam and the Phantom.
9:30: Danger: Diabolik (Mara Bava dir., 1968)
The diabolical one who started it all comes to life in Mario Bava’s stylish, candy colored cult classic. Bava, best known as the horror director who launched the giallo genre, here effectively recreates the skewed compositions and deep-focused perspective of the pulpy adventure comics from which Diabolik sprang. John Philip Law (who in that same year also appeared in the similarly comics-derived Barbarella) brings the criminal mastermind to life as a lithe, cool customer, melting only under the influence of his purring girlfriend and accomplice, Eva Kant (Melissa Mel). Clips from this film were used to great effect in the Beastie Boys’ 1998 video “Body Movin.’”
The diabolical one who started it all comes to life in Mario Bava’s stylish, candy colored cult classic. Bava, best known as the horror director who launched the giallo genre, here effectively recreates the skewed compositions and deep-focused perspective of the pulpy adventure comics from which Diabolik sprang. John Philip Law (who in that same year also appeared in the similarly comics-derived Barbarella) brings the criminal mastermind to life as a lithe, cool customer, melting only under the influence of his purring girlfriend and accomplice, Eva Kant (Melissa Mel). Clips from this film were used to great effect in the Beastie Boys’ 1998 video “Body Movin.’”
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