The Killing of John Lennon
Mar 21 - Mar 27, 2008
Andrew Piddington, USA, 2007, 35mm, 114 min
THE KILLING OF JOHN LENNON is a fictionalized chilling insight into the mind of Mark David Chapman, the 25-year-old narcissist who gunned down John Lennon outside his Dakota apartment in New York in 1980. Meticulously researched and filmed over three years on locations where the events occurred, this is a gritty and imaginative examination of a celebrity stalker's mind leading up to the kill and a look into his descent into madness. Several scenes echo Scorsese's TAXI DRIVER, one of Chapman's inspirations. The voiceover (taken from Chapman's interviews) gives us chilling insight into the mind of a stalker and gives actor Jonas Ball's unforgettable performance an eerie, chilling precision.
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"THE KILLING OF JOHN LENNON is a harrowing, impressionistic, widescreen tour-de-force that unfolds with the propulsive urgency of a scrapbook thrown into a howling wind." -VARIETY