• Short: SAY GOODBYE TO YOUR BRAIN
and Nazi-engineered surveillance tech—all abound in Lang’s paranoid
his own avant-garde shorts
Akira Kurosawas brilliantly conceived retelling of Shakespeares KING LEAR magically mixes Japanese history
Roeg creates a fun-house-mirror image of fifties America in order to reflect on the nature of celebrity and lingering cold-war nuclear nightmares
Carrie (Region B) Monte Hellman • Short: SAY GOODBYE TOIn 1974, Stephen King published his first novel, the story of Carrie White, a troubled young girl, bullied by her peers and daughter to a fanatical fundamentalist mother, who discovers she has telekinetic powers. In 1976, it became the first of his works to be adapted for the big screen and, to this day, remains one of the very best. Carrie marked Brian De Palmas arrival as a major director, following smaller cult films such as Sisters, Phantom of the