The Twitch presented Attack The Block series of science fiction films from the Eastern Bloc continues on Thursday with our final screening of Andrei Takovsky's Solaris. But for those looking for something a little bit different, have we got a treat for you on Friday.
Screening Friday, February 3rd at 9pm at the TIFF Bell Lightbox is Václav Vorlícek's Who Wants To Kill Jessie? A slapstick comedy with a healthy dose of sex appeal, Jessie is a film way, way ahead of its time - a playful mucking about with comic book tropes that hugely prefigures the current wave of 'real world' superhero pictures coming out of both the studios and the indies.
Check out the opening title sequence below!
Screening Friday, February 3rd at 9pm at the TIFF Bell Lightbox is Václav Vorlícek's Who Wants To Kill Jessie? A slapstick comedy with a healthy dose of sex appeal, Jessie is a film way, way ahead of its time - a playful mucking about with comic book tropes that hugely prefigures the current wave of 'real world' superhero pictures coming out of both the studios and the indies.
We've got three pairs of tickets to give away for this screening and to get one all you have to do is email me here and name your favorite 'real world' comic book movie.A husband-and-wife team of scientists has been working on developing a dream manipulator which will supposedly produce happier, more productive workers by exorcizing their bad dreams and affording them a good night's rest. However, it soon becomes clear that the invention does not only banish dreams, but brings them out of the dreamer's mind into the real world -- which the husband discovers when he wakes from a comic book-inspired nightmare to find himself in bed with blonde bombshell cartoon heroine Jessie (Olga Schoberova), who has been pursued into the real world by the caped supervillain and gunslinging cowboy who want to kill her. Václav Vorlícek's hilarious, visually inventive postmodern comedy benefits considerably from the casting of the stunning Schoberova, Czechoslovakia's first Playboy model (from the epochal "Girls from Behind the Iron Curtain" issue) and later the star of the Hammer Films potboiler The Vengeance of She.
Check out the opening title sequence below!
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