A View to a Kill

Director: John Glen

1988 / 131min / 4K DCP

Christopher Walken’s bottle-blonde Übermensch terrorist Max Zorin is hatching a plan to destroy Silicon Valley—in 1985 this was considered a bad thing—and only 007 stands in his way. Roger Moore, the most camp of James Bonds in perhaps his most camp efforts, singlehandedly invents snowboarding before the end of A View to a Kill’s first reel, then trails Zorin’s Amazonian sidekick, May Day (Grace Jones, who would release her chef-d’œuvre Slave to the Rhythm on Island Records later the same year), on a breakneck pursuit through Paris that includes a parachute jump from the Eiffel Tower and a car chase in one half of a bisected Renault! The only thing more thrilling than that gonzo extended set piece and the Golden Gate Bridge climax? Why, the Duran Duran title song, of course.

Distributor: Park Circus