Gold Told Me To
dir. Larry Cohen, 1976
United States. 91 mins.
In English

ONE NIGHT ONLY FRIDAY NOVEMBER 21 7:30PM IN 16MM

Filmmaker, writer, and iconoclast Larry Cohen ranks among America’s most unhinged - and prolific! - auteurs. Born and raised in New York City at the height of the Great Depression, Cohen cut his teeth as an NBC page during the network’s Eisenhower-era heyday. Like many of his contemporaries, including fellow landsmen John Frankenheimer and Sidney Lumet, Cohen got his start directing and writing for the nascent medium of television.

After nearly two decades on the small screen, Cohen broke out with the 1972 Yaphett Kotto vehicle Bone, effectively launching a career that would come to include 18 features - including Q, the Winged Serpent, The Stuff, and one of his most beloved: God Told Me To.

Cohen was an expert raconteur, spending his later years regaling audiences at retrospective screenings and conventions. The author of several books on the art of film craft, Cohen’s unpublished memoir I Killed Bette Davis will finally see the light of day with a spanking-new edition available from Sticking Place Books, edited by Gavin Smith.

To celebrate the posthumous publication of I Killed Bette Davis, Spectacle is thrilled to present this special one-night-only screening of Cohen’s God Told Me To on gritty 16mm, with an introduction from Smith.