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The Manchurian Candidate (35mm)
Sun
30
Sun 30 Nov 1:00 PM
Arc Cinema
Allocated Seating
126 Mins
November
1962 | 35mm | USA | D: John Frankenheimer
US soldiers are captured by Chinese communists during the Korean War and placed under mind control. Years later, one is manipulated in a plot to assassinate a US presidential candidate.
Starring Frank Sinatra and Angela Lansbury, John Frankenheimer’s 1962 thriller deploys political satire, surrealism and psychological paranoia in a stylish black-and-white aesthetic.
‘The Manchurian Candidate is inventive and frisky, takes enormous chances with the audience, and plays not like a ’classic’ but as a work as alive and smart as when it was first released.’ – Robert Ebert
Presented on 35mm film prints from the NFSA collection.
US soldiers are captured by Chinese communists during the Korean War and placed under mind control. Years later, one is manipulated in a plot to assassinate a US presidential candidate.
Starring Frank Sinatra and Angela Lansbury, John Frankenheimer’s 1962 thriller deploys political satire, surrealism and psychological paranoia in a stylish black-and-white aesthetic.
‘The Manchurian Candidate is inventive and frisky, takes enormous chances with the audience, and plays not like a ’classic’ but as a work as alive and smart as when it was first released.’ – Robert Ebert
Presented on 35mm film prints from the NFSA collection.
November