Phantoms of the Firehouse, presented by MUBI: TETSUO: THE IRON MAN | IN-PERSON (10/28)
Phantoms of the Firehouse, presented by MUBI: TETSUO: THE IRON MAN | IN-PERSON (10/28)
Chicago Filmmakers (map) | Satuday, October 28 at 7PM Central
TETSUO: THE IRON MAN (Japan, 1989)
DIRECTOR: Shinya Tsukamoto
PRODUCER: Shinya Tsukamoto
STARRING: Tomorô Taguchi, Kei Fujiwara, Nobu Kanaoka
Total Run Time: 67 mins
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“A cyberpunk ERASERHEAD.” -- Michael Weldon, THE PSYCHOTRONIC VIDEO GUIDE
Virtually absent from theater screens since the 1990s, this underground classic from Japan is now available in a brand new restoration! TETSUO: THE IRON MAN is filmmaker Shinya Tsukamoto’s unhinged hot take on humankind’s ongoing battle with technology; literally, as a man mutates into a walking, clanking man-machine that terrorizes himself and everyone around him. Warping elements of early Cronenberg, Lynch, and Raimi into a deliriously-paced cyberpunk cocktail, TETSUO is a body horror manifesto that’s fueled by techno-erotic adrenaline and wrought iron perversion. Unmissable.
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