Pickup on South Street
Dir: Samuel Fuller
USA, 1953, English, 80mins
Cast: Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter
Crime reporter-turned-pulp impresario Samuel Fuller wrote and directed this gleefully amoral Cold War thriller, in which Richard Widmark’s flagrantly unpatriotic pickpocket becomes embroiled in a communist plot to steal government secrets. Bursting with sassy dames, bullish cops, hard-nosed Feds and slippery spies, this almost Hitchcockian tale, made during the redbaiting McCarthy era, managed to upset everyone from the US censors to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover for its unapologetic violence and lack of a flagwaving hero, but remains to this day one of Fuller’s most compelling noirs. The subversive Hollywood auteur of all time earned the adoration from French New Wave directors, culminating into Godard giving him a cameo in his 1965 film Pierrot le Fou.
Venice Film Festival: Bronze Lion
7/5 (Sun): Film talk with Joyce Yang
Screening:
In-theatre Screening
The Golden Age
Buy Ticket 2023-05-07 (Sun)
14:30Buy Ticket 2023-07-02 (Sun)
19:30
PREMIERE Elements (Venue)
Hong Kong Arts Centre Louis Koo Cinema (Venue)
HK Science Museum Lecture Hall
Hong Kong Film Archive
K11 Art House
The Metroplex
Festival Grand Cinema
the sky
MCL Telford Cinema
Tai Kwun
MOViE MOViE
CINE FAN ONLINE
EMP Cinemas iSQUARE (Venue)
M+ Cinema (Venue)
EMP Cinemas Times Square (Venue)
The Grand Cinema
Broadway Hollywood
Cine Moko
Chinese Subtitles
Category III
Post-screening discussion with the director
Director and/or actor(s) will meet the audience
Post-screening talk
Full House
Introduction