Weekend Movie Forecast: Crossing Over, An American Affair

Long unavailable, BAM has secured a new 35mm print of Marco Ferreri’s provocative 1969 film Dillinger is Dead. Michel Piccoli stars as Glauco, an alienated industrial designer "yearning to break free from his materialistic, humdrum existence. When he discovers a revolver tucked away in a kitchen cabinet one night—wrapped in old newspapers announcing the death of John Dillinger, the notorious bank robber and murderer—the gun becomes a symbol of redemption and freedom as he ritualistically sheds the vestiges of his bourgeois life." Scott Foundas at the Village Voice calls it a "centrifuge of ideas about the loss of self in an age when movies, TV, and commercial advertising had come to promise us the ability to be whomever we wanted."