BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20221006T191500Z DTEND:20221006T210000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Blue Steel (18) - Kathryn Bigelow Season DESCRIPTION:101 mins United States 1990 Dir: Kathryn Bigelow\n\nStarring: Jamie Lee Curtis\, Ron Silver and Clancy Brown\n\n \n\nRookie cop Megan Turner (Jamie Lee Curtis) orders a burglar to drop his gun. He whirls to shoot. Too late. Turner fires\, killing him instantly. But she doesn't know that someone has been watching. And when that someone lifts the assailant's gun from the crime scene\, carves Turner's name into the bullets and uses them in a series of murders\, Turner is drawn into a deadly game of wits with a psychopath who's always one step ahead and much closer than she thinks!\n\n \n\nThis psychological thriller vividly depicts a female cop's mental and physical struggles with an obsessed psychopathic killer.\n\n \n\n "Bigelow's seductively stylish\, wildy fetishistic thriller is proof that a woman can enter a traditionally male world and\, like Megan\, beat men at their own game" Time Out\n\n \n\nAfter Blue Steel there is a 12 minute video essay about the film\, created by Triskel's Head of Cinema\, Chris O'Neill.\n\n\n\nKATHRYN BIGELOW SEASON\n\nIn an interview with the BBC film programme Moving Pictures from 1990\, Kathryn Bigelow says that cinema has the ability to have\, "A Profound Emotional Response"\, on an audience. She has repeatedly demonstrated this throughout her career\, with films which are simultaneously gritty and authentic while also being poetic and stylised. This season of films is just a small sampling of this Academy Award Winning director's work. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

101 mins &ndash\; United States 1990 &ndash\; Dir: Kathryn Bigelow
\nStarring: Jamie Lee Curtis\, Ron Silver and Clancy Brown
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\nRookie cop Megan Turner (Jamie Lee Curtis) orders a burglar to drop his gun. He whirls to shoot. Too late. Turner fires\, killing him instantly. But she doesn&rsquo\;t know that someone has been watching. And when that someone lifts the assailant&rsquo\;s gun from the crime scene\, carves Turner&rsquo\;s name into the bullets and uses them in a series of murders\, Turner is drawn into a deadly game of wits with a psychopath who&rsquo\;s always one step ahead and much closer than she thinks!
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\nThis psychological thriller vividly depicts a female cop&rsquo\;s mental and physical struggles with an obsessed psychopathic killer.
\n \;
\n \;&ldquo\;Bigelow'\;s seductively stylish\, wildy fetishistic thriller is proof that a woman can enter a traditionally male world and\, like Megan\, beat men at their own game&rdquo\; \;Time Out
\n \;
\nAfter Blue Steel there is a 12 minute video essay about the film\, created by Triskel&rsquo\;s Head of Cinema\, Chris O&rsquo\;Neill.
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\nKATHRYN BIGELOW SEASON
\nIn an interview with the BBC film programme Moving Pictures from 1990\, Kathryn Bigelow says that cinema has the ability to have\, \;&ldquo\;A Profound Emotional Response&rdquo\;\, on an audience. She has repeatedly demonstrated this throughout her career\, with films which are simultaneously gritty and authentic while also being poetic and stylised. This season of films is just a small sampling of this Academy Award Winning director&rsquo\;s work.

\n LOCATION:Triskel Christchurch UID:e.2489.27862 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260503T035723Z URL:https://chamber.corkchamber.ie/events/details/blue-steel-18-kathryn-bigelow-season-27862 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR