THE DRIVER @ THE CINEMA MUSEUM
(1978, USA, dir.Walter Hill)

We continue our season of road films at The Cinema Museum ith Walter Hill’s cult classic The Driver (1978). A slick, stripped back, neon soaked LA neo-noir with Ryan O’Neal as le samuouraï of the LA freeway and Bruce Dern as the psychotically determined cat to his mouse.

An influence on everybody from Michael Mann to Nicholas Winding Refn to our own Edgar Wright, The Driver is a masterwork of simplicity. Screened here in glorious 16mm.

PART OF 70’S ROAD MOVIES SEASON

WEDNESDAY 3RD JULY 1930 START

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THE RECKONING @ THE CINEMA MUSEUM
(1970, UK, Jack Gold)

As part of our season of road movies at The Cinema Museum, The Nickel presents the rarely seen British thriller The Reckoning (1970) on a glorious IB Tech 16mm print.

Two years before Get Carter, The Reckoning sees a successful London-based businessman (Nicol Williamson) hit the north to his hometown of Liverpool in order to exact revenge on some teddy boys who assaulted his father. If American road movies are about the infinite expanse of the great frontier, The Reckoning depicts its antithesis – a starkly divided island where you can’t drive a day before you start coming back to yourself.

IB Tech 16mm presentation.

PART OF 70’S ROAD MOVIES SEASON

WEDNESDAY 7TH AUGUST 1930 START

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GONE IN 60 SECONDS @ THE CINEMA MUSEUM
(1974, USA, dir.H.B Halicki

We conclude our season of road movies at The Cinema Museum with the rarely screened drive-in cult classic Gone in 60 Seconds (1974).

Writer, director and star H.B Halicki expresses his passionate affection for the American automobile by destroying 93 of them in this unscripted DIY gonzo car chase movie which culminates in a mind-blowing 40 minute sequence that transcends the grindhouse into the sublime! Auteur trash cinema at its most transcendent.

PART OF 70’S ROAD MOVIES SEASON

WEDNESDAY 4TH SEPTEMBER 1930 START

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