Free Fire: 2017 CUFF Film Preview
10 December 2017
By Christine Leonard
Free Fire
Although technically a 2016 release, this shoot-’em-up anchored the Calgary Underground Film Festival back in April of 2017. Once again extended the privilege of DJing live at the front of the theatre while the audience settled in, I hauled out a crate of cowbell-festooned power rock to compliment the film’s 1978 context. There, I was unexpectedly accompanied by a nimble-fingered VJ with a multitude of graphic samples at his disposal. And, so we wove an audio-visual tall tale that summited buxom mountain ranges and snaked through Technicolor bayous like a psychedelic locomotive.
Finally winding down for the introduction of ballistic main feature we synchronously concluded our preshow sensory collage with Chambers Brothers’ “Time Has Come Today,” as giant ticking clocks crumbled in slow motion on the screen behind us. Sufficiently mollified, the audience turned their aspects and eyes to the backstabbing antics of three of the best-looking people to ever sport corduroy bell-bottoms and polyester disco collars; Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy and Armie Hammer. The hail of bullets and profanity that followed was all too familiar to those anyone who’s ever binged on SOA. Another IRA arms deal gone awry? I got this.
(CL)
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