Wed, Sept 21 / 7pm
Sat, Sept 24 / 2:30pm & 7pm *
Sun, Sept 25 / 3pm
Dir. Giuseppe Patroni Griffi
1974, Italy, Germany, 102 min
Italian and English with English subtitles
In what remains the most obscure, bizarre and wildly misunderstood film of her entire career – and perhaps even ‘70s Italian cinema – Elizabeth Taylor stars as a disturbed woman who arrives in Rome to find a city fragmented by autocratic law, leftist violence and her own increasingly unhinged mission to find the most dangerous liaison of all. Academy Award® nominee Ian Bannen (The Offence), Mona Washbourne (The Collector) and Andy Warhol co-star in this “unique, hallucinatory neo noir” (Cult Film Freaks) – barely released in America as The Driver’s Seat – directed by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi (‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore), adapted from the unnerving novella by Muriel Spark (The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie) and featuring cinematography by three-time Oscar® winner Vittorio Storaro (Apocalypse Now, The Last Emperor), now restored in 4K by Cinematheque of Bologna and Severin Films.
Courtesy of Severin Films.
* Join us on September 24 at 7pm for an in-person Q&A with Kier-La Janisse.
To celebrate the 10th anniversary and the latest expanded edition of Kier-La Janisse’s House of Psychotic Women, Cinematheque presents a series of films exploring crippling paranoia, desperate loneliness, masochistic death-wishes, dangerous obsessiveness and apocalyptic hysteria.
Generously sponsored by IATSE 856 and William F. White International.
