Freaky Fridays: Screening of “Zardoz”
Kentucky Theater 214 E Main St, Lexington, Kentucky 40507
John Boorman's 1974 dystopian film "Zardoz" is one of the strangest studio movies ever committed to celluloid. Taking place at some point in the distant, distant future, Sean Connery plays a harness-wearing, gun-toting beach warrior named Zed who murders and commits assault at the perceived behest of a giant floating stone head named Zardoz. The head, worshiped as a deity, drifts across the countryside, very occasionally puking piles of firearms onto the ground. One day, Zed climbs into the head and rides it back to its homebase, an Edenic garden full of bored immortal scholars. Zed falls in love with a woman named Consuella (Charlotte Rampling), and he discovers that she and her city have been alive for an untold length of time. Long ago, humanity mastered immortality, but the Eden-dwellers have been alive for so long, they grow weary of existence.
10 p.m. Kentucky Theatre, 214 East Main St. www.kentuckytheatre.org