Mise En Scenesters, Chattanooga’s pop-up arthouse theater to screen Crime Wave on Saturday at 8:30 p.m. at Barking Legs Theater.
Review for Crime Wave:
Mystery, intrigue, sensation, crippling writers' block. Not to be confused with the Sam Raimi film of the same title, this Canadian cult oddity remains one of the most criminally under-seen films of the 1980's. An early example of postmodern film making, the story details screenwriter Stephen Penny's attempts to write a crime film in the grand cinematic tradition.
He has a variety of potential beginnings and endings (many of which we get to see fully realized), but he struggles to find a middle. He discovers an opportunity for script-doctoring assistance through a mysterious man named Dr. Jolly, who inhabits a surreal version of the American south. Borrowing the visual styles of everything from educational films to Hollywood gangster dramas, Crime Wave presents us with a world full of vibrant color and boundless energy, but with a strange, putrid presence lingering just outside the frame.
Tickets are $5 and 100 percent of the proceeds go to the filmmaker himself. Tickets are available via the Chattanooga Film Festival Shopify store at http://chattanooga-film-fest.myshopify.com/products/mes-presents-crime-wave.