Cine-Excess V Presents: Live Like an Italian, Die Like a Filmmaker: Ruggero Deodato Discusses Police, Politics and Seventies Italian Society

The Italian Cultural Institute, Saturday 28th May 9pm-11.30pm

Cine-Excess is delighted to be working with the Italian Cultural Institute to present a very special panel discussion by one of Italy’s most prolific and confrontational directors: Ruggero Deodato. Although best known for his landmark controversial movie Cannibal Holocaust (1979), Deodato also directed a series of prolific thrillers, which often represented stark snapshots of a changing 1970s Italian cultural and political landscape. As well as discussing these films and Italian society of the 1970s, Ruggero Deodato will also be considering the extent to which wider Italian fears about terrorism and urban crime impacted on the cycle of rogue cop thrillers that proliferated during this decade. 

The evening concludes with a rare screening of Ruggero Deodato’s 1976 high octane thriller Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man, which features Marc Porel and Ray Lovelock as two amoral undercover officers whose quest for justice and vengeance pushes the boundaries of permissible policing to the limits. Featuring jaw dropping chase scenes (that includes an incredible extended opening motorcycle heist scene trailed around the streets of Rome), as well jaw busting scenes of gangland brutality, Deodato’s film also benefits from a taut script from crime fiction king Fernando Di Leo. Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man was selected by Ruggero Deodato as one of his own personal favourites to accompany his visit to Cine-Excess V, and we are delighted to host it as this year’s closing film. 

Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man, screening courtesy of Ruggero Deodato.

This screening is open to cinema goers over the age of 18, and tickets are priced at £7.

Early booking is strongly advised. Please Book Online or Ring the Following Ticket Hotline for tickets: 020 7396 4406