The Dryden will screen Sucker Punch (Zack Snyder, Us/Canada 2011, 110 min., 35mm) tonight at 8 p.m.

When we were thinking about how James Card, as an archivist and as a curator, would have felt and behaved in the 21st century—which films he would have collected and programmed?—and taking into consideration everything we knew about this beloved rogue as a human being and as a professional—from his passion for broad drama, action and romance, to his penchant for movies that were always slightly off the beaten track—we came up with an idea for a sucker punch. And here it is: Sucker Punch, a horribly underrated explosion of pure cinematic joie de vivre, written and directed by an equally underrated contemporary master Zack Snyder. The subject of this kinetic masterpiece is really cinema itself—a magical apparatus that has been generating the most vivid and impossible dreams for well over a century now. And like dreams themselves, Sucker Punch is absorbing, elusive, imperfect, excessive, and unsettling, but the world without it would be more than just a little bit grayer.

[source: Dryden website, 2015-Apr-20]