Blood Simple – 4K Restoration!

A Tribute to Janus Films

Blood Simple - 4K Restoration!
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FRIDAY, MAY 19 – THURSDAY, MAY 25

General Admission: $10 | Loft Members: $8

Passes Not Accepted

Joel and Ethan Coen’s career-long, darkly comic road trip through misfit America began with this razor-sharp, hard-boiled neo-noir set somewhere in Texas, where a sleazy bar owner releases a torrent of violence with one murderous thought. Actor M. Emmet Walsh looms over the proceedings as a slippery private eye with a yellow suit, a cowboy hat, and no moral compass, and Frances McDormand’s cunning debut performance set her on the road to stardom. The tight scripting and inventive style that have marked the Coens’ work for decades are all here in their first film, in which cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld abandons black-and-white chiaroscuro for neon signs and jukebox colors that combine with Carter Burwell’s haunting score to lurid and thrilling effect. Blending elements from pulp fiction and low-budget horror flicks, Blood Simple reinvented the film noir for a new generation, marking the arrival of a filmmaking ensemble that would transform the American independent cinema scene. (Dir. by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, 1984, USA, 95 mins., Rated R)

1 HR 37 MIN | R

Released 1984
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