Nan Goldin selects The Naked Kiss
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Director: Samuel Fuller
1964 / 90min / 35mm
“Tell me why, Mommy dear, are there tears in your eyes?” Fuller’s melodramatic, noir-inflected exposé of small-town hypocrisy and amorality starts with a shock—call girl Constance Towers thrashes the bejeezus out of a drunk man to the tune of blaring jazz, losing her wig in the process to reveal a shiny cue-ball pate—and doesn’t let up from there. Leaving her old life behind, the reformed Kelly (Towers) arrives in the all-American burg of Grantville—and soon discovers deeper depravity than ever she encountered while turning an honest trick going on behind the manicured lawns and picket fences.
NAN GOLDIN
Nan Goldin is a photographer and activist known for her intensely personal and transgressive photographs of her family, friends, and lovers. Goldin first presented her ever-evolving slideshows of photographs, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, in a New York City nightclub in 1979, and it was soon heralded as a groundbreaking contribution to fine art photography.
Distributor: Janus Films
35mm print courtesy of Peter Conheim/Cinema Preservation Alliance
Introduction by Nan Goldin on Sunday, May 17th
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