City Gallery

Past event

Film Screening: The Fearless Vampire Killers and The Naked Kiss

26 February 2017

Dir. Roman Polanski The Fearless Vampire Killers 1967
91min | PG Adult themes

Roman Polanski and the gorgeous Sharon Tate in Transylvanian camp. Great theatrical entertainment.
—Cindy Sherman

Dir. Samuel Fuller The Naked Kiss 1964
1hr 30min, R18

A classic Samuel Fuller tale of an ex-prostitute trying to reform and marry the perfect guy who will forgive her past. Until we find out why.
—Cindy Sherman

Part of the Cindy Sherman Film Programme (Sundays 15 January–19 March 2017). The programme includes six films selected by Cindy Sherman that have informed her practice and seven selected by Curator Aaron Lister that are almost impossible to watch without thinking about her work. Sherman selected her films for the screening programme accompaning her 2012 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Sherman and Lister have provided descriptions to accompany their selections.

Scary movies. Strange characters. Fierce women. Odd behavior. Obscured stories. Innovative filmmaking. I think these are the characteristics that tie together all the films that are my favorites, all the films that inspire me. They inspire me to create characters, tell stories without words, playing attraction off repulsion, letting the viewer discover the story (or making it hard for them).
—Cindy Sherman

In association with Cindy Sherman.