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United
States Theatrical Premiere!
35mm print! Director’s Cut!
Director Mark Goldblatt in Attendance!
ONE SCREENING ONLY! Saturday, October 18 at 7:30 p.m.
THE PUNISHER
(Australia/USA, NR, 1989,
91 min)
Nineteen
years after its
original
release, ESCAPISM is proud to host the United States Theatrical
Premiere of director Mark Goldblatt’s extraordinary vision of
the
Marvel Comic’s action hero! This is
Goldblatt’s
original cut of the film (as well as his own personal 35mm print),
including all of the moments and shots that he was forced to trim for
an MPAA "R" version in the U.S., due to so-called "excessive
violence". How, you ask, can this be the US
Premiere?
Several months prior to the film’s scheduled theatrical
release
in 1989, the film’s US distributor (New World Pictures) went
bankrupt and rather than being released to US theatres, the film went
straight to video (although it did play in theatres around the rest of
the world.) Shot in Sydney, Australia in 1989, The Punisher
comes
brilliantly to life in this searing action-adventure thriller starring
Dolph Lundgren as the infamous Frank Castle. (Forget the puny
2004 version! 91 people are killed individually on screen in
this
movie, not including those who die en masse in explosions,
etc.
Now, that’s action!) Lashing out from a labyrinth
of
subterranean sewers, The Punisher leads a heavily armed raid into the
world of brutal crime and savage retribution. A world where
only
one thing is certain…the guilty will be punished.
Viewer’s
Guide: Violence, language, and brief nudity.
SEE THE TRAILER
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Mark Goldblatt
Mark Goldblatt is an Academy Award
nominated, American film editor, and
director. A graduate of the London Film School, he is a
member,
and a former president, of the American Cinema Editors, as well as a
member of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts
and Sciences. He is the father of actor and director Max
Goldblatt. Goldblatt has edited over 30 films, including such
notable genre titles as Halloween II (1981), The Terminator (1984),
Predator 2 (1990), Pearl Harbor (2001), Starship Troopers (1997), True
Lies (1994), Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985), The Howling (1981),
Humanoids From the Deep (1980), Piranha (1978), and X-Men: The Last
Stand (2006). He is a 1992 Academy Award nominee for Best
Editing
for Terminator 2: Judgment Day. He has also directed the film
Dead Heat (1988) and an episode of Eerie, Indiana. Goldblatt
is a
winner of Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Films’
Saturn Award for Piranha (1978), and a Satellite Award for X-Men: The
Last Stand, and was twice nominated for ACE's Eddie Award for his work
on True Lies and X-Men. He is a life-long film buff, and has
always been a fan of horror and fantastic cinema, as well as many other
diverse genres.
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