The cult-movie season continues with a double bill about urban warfare, introduced by Mark Cousins.
The Warriors
Action drama. At a supposedly weapon-free conference of New York gangs, the leader of the "Riffs" is shot dead - a murder which is wrongly blamed on the "Warriors", who then face a perilous journey home with rival gangs hot on their trail. Showing in widescreen format.
DirectorWalterHill (1979, 18)
♦ See Films: pages 40-47
Andatll.55-l.35am
Film premiere La Haine
Drama. The day after a bloody riot in a run-down
Parisian housing estate, three youths, waiting for news of a friend injured in police custody, become involved in a series of sometimes humorous, sometimes edgy confrontations. Winner of the Best Director's Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1995. In French with English subtitles.
Director Mathieu Kassovitz (1995, 15)
Black and white
+ See Films: pages 40-47
Followed by Weatherview