The Neon Bible [15]
Sunday 29th October
1.00pm
FACT
PARTNER: Outsiders
Director Terence Davies, 91 mins, UK 1995.
Starring Gena Rowlands, Denis Leary, Diana Scarwid, Jacob Tierney.
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Terence Davies - a gay filmmaker from Liverpool - is one of the reasons
Outsiders exists, and our guest Christopher Hobbs has designed almost all
his films. The Neon Bible, based on an early novel by gay author John Kennedy
Toole (A Confederacy of Dunces), is Christopher's own choice of a film to
represent his work. Featuring the great Gena Rowlands as a washed-up nightclub
singer who descends on her sister's quiet Georgia farm, it's a stylish,
cinematic reflection on growing up in a world dominated by religion - a
theme close to Davies' heart.
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