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Point Blank Introduced by Geoff Dyer

British essayist/humorist Geoff Dyer will introduce the screening of John Boorman’s Neo-Noir POINT BLANK (1967, John Boorman).

Like an angry, righteous machine, godfather of cool Lee Marvin, in blue-grey business suit, systematically hunts down his betrayers to reclaim his rightful share of the take. Visually bold, fractured Neo-Noir influenced American 70s crime movies and launched Boorman’s international directing career. Adapted from a Donald Westlake novel. 35mm. Approx. 92 min.

Geoff Dyer, author of the new book ‘Broadsword Calling Danny Boy’: Watching Where Eagles Dare (published by Pantheon), with book signing in lobby following screening.

Geoff Dyer is the author of Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi and three previous novels, as well as nine non-fiction books. Dyer has won the Somerset Maugham Prize, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, a Lannan Literary Award, the International Center of Photography’s 2006 Infinity Award for writing on photography and the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ E.M. Forster Award. In 2009 he was named GQ’s Writer of the Year. He won a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2012 and was a finalist in 1998. In 2015 he received a Windham Campbell Prize for non-fiction. His books have been translated into twenty-four languages. He currently lives in Los Angeles where he is Writer in Residence at the University of Southern California. His new book ‘Broadsword Calling Danny Boy’: Watching Where Eagles Dare (published by Pantheon), will be available for purchase at our concession.











When: Sun., Apr. 7, 2019 at 5:10 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: Film Forum
209 W. Houston St.
212-727-8110
Price: $9 member, $15 regular
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British essayist/humorist Geoff Dyer will introduce the screening of John Boorman’s Neo-Noir POINT BLANK (1967, John Boorman).

Like an angry, righteous machine, godfather of cool Lee Marvin, in blue-grey business suit, systematically hunts down his betrayers to reclaim his rightful share of the take. Visually bold, fractured Neo-Noir influenced American 70s crime movies and launched Boorman’s international directing career. Adapted from a Donald Westlake novel. 35mm. Approx. 92 min.

Geoff Dyer, author of the new book ‘Broadsword Calling Danny Boy’: Watching Where Eagles Dare (published by Pantheon), with book signing in lobby following screening.

Geoff Dyer is the author of Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi and three previous novels, as well as nine non-fiction books. Dyer has won the Somerset Maugham Prize, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, a Lannan Literary Award, the International Center of Photography’s 2006 Infinity Award for writing on photography and the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ E.M. Forster Award. In 2009 he was named GQ’s Writer of the Year. He won a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2012 and was a finalist in 1998. In 2015 he received a Windham Campbell Prize for non-fiction. His books have been translated into twenty-four languages. He currently lives in Los Angeles where he is Writer in Residence at the University of Southern California. His new book ‘Broadsword Calling Danny Boy’: Watching Where Eagles Dare (published by Pantheon), will be available for purchase at our concession.

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