Cinematheque . Film Schedule . ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK
John Carpenter: Dark Star. New Digital Restoration!
United States | 1981 | John Carpenter
1997. The island of Manhattan has become America’s only maximum security prison. When Air Force One crash lands there and the President is taken hostage by a ruthless crime lord, one-eyed former bank robber Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) is given 24 hours to rescue him. Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, and Isaac Hayes co-star in John Carpenter’s “futuristic” cult classic, one of the director’s best movies. DCP. 99 min.
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