The JFK assassination is parodied in 1979 black comedy “Winter Kills,” which has landed a remastered re-release introduced by auteur Quentin Tarantino. IndieWire solely shares the trailer for the Rialo Footage reissue right here.
“Winter Kills” is a thinly veiled and hyper-paranoiac tackle the JFK assassination starring Jeff Bridges as Nick Kegan, scion of a fabulously rich and highly effective household headed by patriarch John Huston, as a personality primarily based on Joe Kennedy. Nick (Bridges) quickly finds himself taking place a number of rabbit holes whereas making an attempt to unravel the conspiracy behind the homicide of a U.S. president, his older brother.
Anthony Perkins, Dorothy Malone, Toshiro Mifune, and Elli Wallach additionally star, in addition to an uncredited Elizabeth Taylor who performs a personality impressed by JFK’s rumored-to-be mobbed-up mistress Judith Exner. “Winter Kills” is the characteristic debut of mannequin and Australian actress Belinda Bauer.
A brand new re-issued launch of “Winter Kills” by Rialto Footage with 35mm prints will probably be unveiled at New York’s Film Discussion board on August 11 and L.A.’s New Beverly Cinema, which is owned by Tarantino, on August 25. The New Beverly can even host a Rialto Footage retrospective in Might.
The movie’s historical past can also be rife with the stuff of cinematic intrigue: Two of the movie’s principal producers went bankrupt, with one being later despatched to a federal jail for drug trafficking and the opposite murdered by a creditor. Manufacturing was suspended for 2 years whereas author/director William Richert raised the cash to finish the movie.
“Winter Kills” is customized from the novel by Richard Condon, who additionally penned “The Manchurian Candidate.” The movie is directed by Richert, with Maurice Jarre (“Lawrence of Arabia”) behind the rating, Hitchcock collaborator Robert Boyle because the manufacturing designer, and Vilmos Zsigmond (“The Deer Hunter”) because the cinematographer. Author/director Richert made his directorial debut with “Winter Kills” whereas persevering with his appearing profession. Richert died in 2022.
John Bailey, who serves as director of images on “The Large Chill” and “Groundhog Day,” supervised the brand new 35mm prints. Colorist Don Capoferri and lab expediter Steven Mitchell from FotoKem collaborated with Bailey to breathe new life into “Winter Kills.”
“After I noticed it again in 1979, I used to be considerably flummoxed,” Bailey stated in a press assertion in regards to the movie’s legacy, “however immediately I see it as not solely very related however eerily prescient. Huston’s sick, purely transactional character too carefully predicts not solely the mores of society immediately however that of a current tenant of the White Home.”
The brand new trailer was edited by William Hohauser and produced by Rialto Footage founder Bruce Goldstein to commemorate the re-release.
“Winter Kills” opens at New York’s Movie Discussion board on August 11 and at L.A.’s New Beverly Cinema on August 25 from Rialto Footage. Take a look at the brand new trailer, an IndieWire unique, under.
