Not By Lynch presents Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
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Doors open: 6:30pm
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Price: £12.00 (£12.80 including fees)
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About Not By Lynch presents Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Robert Aldrich’s Kiss Me Deadly begins as a hardboiled detective story and ends as a nuclear nightmare. Ralph Meeker’s Mike Hammer is a thuggish opportunist whose encounter with a terrified hitchhiker plunges him into a maze of gangsters, spies and a coveted glowing briefcase. As Hammer blunders forward, violence escalates and Los Angeles feels increasingly unstable, as if the city itself were fraying.
The film’s restless night drives, dangerous women and explosive finale have resonated deeply with later filmmakers. Its vision of LA as a paranoid labyrinth sits comfortably alongside Lynch’s Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive. Kiss Me Deadly shows noir mutating into something wilder and more hallucinated: a world where the MacGuffin at the story’s centre might literally destroy everything.
With an accompanying essay and introduction by Cinema Year Zero.
Doors open at 18.30, for a 19.30 start.
Refreshments will be available in our licensed cafe/bar.
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The Cinema Museum
2 Dugard Way
Renfrew Road
London,
SE11 4TH