Double Feature

Who Killed Teddy Bear?

An unforgettable descent into sleazy mid-60s NYC, Who Killed Teddy Bear? is a staggering psycho-sexual thriller determined to smash every previously untouchable Hollywood taboo in the rulebook. Juliet Prowse plays a discotheque DJ on the receiving end of a series of increasingly obscene phone calls. As violence from the mysterious stalker tumbles into real life, who could be the madman responsible: the nightclub manager with sapphic desires (Elaine Stritch), the creepy cop with a damaged past (Jan Murray), or the club’s shy busboy hiding dark family secrets (Sal Mineo)? Teddy Bear is ripe for rediscovery, raw and unflinching, with a charged Mineo at his fiery best.

“This 1960s New York story of violated innocence remains unsettling, with Mineo riveting as a proto-Travis Bickle.” – Anton Bitel, Film4

In the Cut

In the underbelly of lower Manhattan, Frannie Avery (Meg Ryan), a reserved English professor, becomes obsessed after seeing more than she should of an impassioned couple. After the young woman turns up dead, Frannie is questioned by a homicide detective (Mark Ruffalo) who draws her into a liberating but disturbing erotic encounter. As the body count rises, familiar suspects begin to emerge. (Sony)

“Technically brilliant, and Ryan is utterly compelling.” – Emma Cochrane, Empire Magazine

“A minutely etched study in mood and female psychology.” – Leslie Felperin, Sight and Sound

“Jane Campion’s astonishingly beautiful new film, In the Cut, may be the most maddening and imperfect great movie of the year. Certainly it’s the most difficult to cozy up to with its unnerving fusion of hot sex, icy sentiment and warm-running blood. The movie is being pitched as an erotic thriller, but despite a suspense subplot and the frisson that comes with watching professional cupcake Meg Ryan do the nasty, it plays far closer to an adults-only fairy tale – albeit one in which the happily-ever looks a lot like Taxi Driver.” – Manohla Dargis, Los Angeles Times