Introduced by Olaf Jubin, join us for the screening of Blow Out on Thursday 22 November at 17.45 in the Tuke Cinema.

The film:

The famous classics directed by Brian de Palma, specialist for horror and suspense, include Carrie (1976), Scarface (1983), The Untouchables (1986) and the first Mission Impossible (1996).

Yet his most personal film may be the political thriller Blow Out (1981), starring John Travolta (in one of his best performances), Nancy Allen and John Lithgow. Quentin Tarantino counts De Palma’s movie among his three favourite films; Blow Out is the reason why he cast Travolta in Pulp Fiction.

The plot:

While recording potential sound effects for a movie he is working on, sound technician Jack Terry (Travolta) witnesses a car accident. The driver is killed, but Jack manages to rescue Sally (Allen), the young woman in the passenger seat. When he later listens to the audio tape he recorded of the incident, Jack realises what happened may not have been an accident, but actually an assassination. Together with Sally he tries to find more evidence and to convince the police that a crime has taken place, unaware that the killer (Lithgow) is about to eliminate all traces of the murder – and all the witnesses…

Come and join us for a masterpiece full of suspense, thrills and unexpected twists!