Tank Girl – the 1995 Lori Petty post-apocalyptic flick based on the British comic book – at the Guild Cinema Friday, January 9 – 10:30 pm only
Directed by Rachel Talalay – 1995 – 104m – Valid For Punch Cards.
BOOM! Shoot off into the world of Tank Girl. Set tracks to a futuristic Australia, loaded with wild adventure and armed to the teeth with the antics of Lori Petty, Malcolm McDowell, Naomi Watts, Iggy Pop, and Ice-T as a f**king Kangaroo!
The year is 2033 and since a humongous meteor hit the earth, the world just hasn’t been the same. No movies, no cable television, no water! A mega-villain, Kesslee (Malcolm McDowell), the leader of Water & Power, holds the world in his grasp since he controls all the water … or so he thinks. Two colossal enemies stand in his way: (1) The Rippers – an army of half-men/half-kangaroo people whose sole purpose is to bring down Water & Power and (2) a chick with a tank and tons of attitude – aka Tank Girl (Lori Petty). Kesslee had better get a grip on reality and his water jugs because not even a run in her stockings is going to stop her from saving the world!
Filmed partially at White Sands, New Mexico!
“A bracing film that’s halfway between a string of MTV videos (Courtney Love put together the edgy soundtrack) and some of that network’s over-the-top cartoons.” – Richard Harrington, Washington Post
“Add an Iggy Pop cameo, an unconventional storytelling style, and a unique stylized look, and you’ve got a comic-book movie unlike any that came out back then, nor much like the many that have followed in the more than two decades since its release.” – Leilani Polk, The Stranger (Seattle, WA)
The Guild Cinema is located at 3405 Central Ave NE in the Nob Hill area.
Website: GuildCinema.com