When: Friday April 25th at 7:30PM
What: Screening of COPKILLER aka ORDER OF DEATH as part of the Narrow Rooms screening series at Anthology Film Archives
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COPKILLER aka CORRUPT aka ORDER OF DEATH
by Roberto Faenza
1983, 101 min, 35mm-to-DCP
With Harvey Keitel, John Lydon, and Sylvia Sidney. Music by Ennio Morricone.
Lt. Fred O’Connor (Harvey Keitel) is a corrupt narcotics detective on the trail of a serial killer who’s been ambushing dirty cops and slitting their throats. But his search gets cut short when Leo Smith, a gay British punk (John Lydon) shows up at O’Connor’s secret second apartment claiming to be the titular psychopath. Fearing Smith will drop the dime on him, O’Connor ties his visitor up and subjects him to torture and beatings, rather than turning him in. But that might be exactly what Smith wants. Is he really a cop killer? Or just a kinky rich kid with a screw loose? So begins a twisted cat and mouse game between two effed up men that plays out like a cross between a grimy 80s cop movie and Joseph Losey’s queer 1963 classic THE SERVANT. Based on a long out-of-print novel by cult author and painter Hugh Fleetwood, COPKILLER is a nasty, freaky little thriller that takes a dim view of policing, but provides the sneering punk legend Lydon (of Sex Pistols and PiL fame) with a meaty role, which he takes full advantage of.
About NARROW ROOMS: In an era of gay big-screen romances, Cable-TV Christmas movies, and prestige Oscar-bait, there’s no shortage of affirming content for homocathected cineastes. Recent years have seen an establishment of a “gay film canon” that pops up on streaming services during Pride month. But there are hundreds of stranger, darker, and more exhilarating films that often fall through the cracks. “Narrow Rooms” is a series that celebrates these weird gay films, historically ignored or derided but shared like viruses amongst lovers of edgy, unvarnished queer cinema. Taking its name from James Purdy’s twisted gay S&M Southern Gothic novel, “Narrow Rooms” is a celebration of film faggotry, gay villains, horny homos, and heterodoxy. After 12 years co-curating the acclaimed artist-selected Queer/Art/Film series and programming for mainstream LGBT film festivals, filmmaker and writer Adam Baran finally gets to pick his own favorite flicks for adventurous audiences at Anthology Film Archives, an institution that has celebrated edgy, shocking, groundbreaking gay cinema for over 50 years.
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