The Killing of John Lennon
Synopsis
The Killing of John Lennon, is a chilling insight into the mind of Mark David Chapman the 25 year old narcissist who gunned down John Lennon outside his Dakota Apartment in New York in 1980. Meticulously researched and filmed on actual locations in Hawaii, Decatur Georgia and New York it is a gritty and imagistic examination of a celebrity stalker's mind leading up to the kill.
The film is more than a chronicle of one man's desperate act, it explores the razor-thin lines between art and insanity, between the drive to create and the compulsion to destroy. Its theme of bomb-ticking loneliness and, by extension, the notion that America as a nation seems to foster angry strangers who vent paranoid resentment towards public figures couldn't be more resonant today.
Details
- Year
- 2007
- Type of film
- Features
- Running Time
- 112 mins
- Format
- 35mm
- Director
- Andrew Piddington
- Producer
- Rakha Singh
- Editor
- Tony Palmer
- Screenwriter
- Andrew Piddington
- Director of Photography
- Roger Eaton
- Production Designer
- Tora Paterson
- Sound
- Dane Themson
- Music
- Martin Kiszko
- Principal Cast
- Jonas Ball
Genre
Production status
Complete
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Last updated 17th May 2007
