Tears of the Black Tiger
Uproarious high-camp cowboy drama from Thailand
Words cannot adequately describe just how weird a film Tears of the Black Tiger is. It’s a deliriously bizarre Thai western that's like a cross between a proper 'B' western, a Bollywood epic (it uses weird pinks and blues and washed out colours, as well as Songs At Bizarre Moments) and a Sam Peckinpah movie (lots of lovingly photographed graphic, bloody violence). The plot is very much the stuff of ‘B’ westerns. A fabled gunslinger (the Black Tiger) pines for his childhood sweetheart , and she is engaged to be married to his archenemy. Any one of the film’s strange elements, (the washed-out colour scheme, the graphic violence, the weird songs) would normally be enough to make this stand out. But the fact that this film combines all three and even throws in a gun slinging midget for good measure marks it out as a film not to be missed. (M. Turner, View London)
Tears of the Black Tiger
Fri April 20, 2007, 7:00 & 9:15, Muenzinger Auditorium
Thailand, 2000, Thai, Color, 110 Min, Unrated
Tickets
10 films for $60 with punch card
$9 general admission.
$7 w/UCB student ID,
$7 for senior citizens
$1 discount to anyone with a bike helmet
Free on your birthday! CU Cinema Studies students get in free.
Parking
Pay lot 360 (now only $1/hour!), across from the buffalo statue and next to the
Duane Physics tower, is closest to Muenzinger. Free parking can be found after 5pm at the meters
along Colorado Ave east of Folsom stadium and along University Ave west of Macky.
RTD Bus
Park elsewhere and catch the HOP to campus
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