Best Of Cinema: ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK , AFRICAN QUEEN

The "Best Of Cinema"-series continues. On November 1st we're off to Manhattan in the futuristic year of 1997. The entire island has been declared a maximum security prison and when the President's plane crashes there, Snake Plissken (Kurt Russel) is the only man capable of saving him. But it will not be easy to evade the Duke's (Isaac Hayes) troops.

John Carpenter's ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (1981) provided a blueprint for much of the cyberpunk which came in the following years and still holds up as one of the director's truly great films.

On December 6th, Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn are forced to travel down a river together, onboard the AFRICAN QUEEN.