Performance

King Kong (1976)

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John Guillermin’s *King Kong* (1976) revisits the familiar fable of a giant ape taken from a remote island and displayed in New York, where spectacle and consequence collide. Starring Jeff Bridges, Charles Grodin, and Jessica Lange, the film leans on a 1970s toolkit of mechanical work by Carlo Rambaldi and makeup by Rick Baker, who also performs Kong. At MoMA, it plays as a document of an era when Manhattan’s skyline functioned as a global stage for movie myth. Its critical edge is blunt: it treats showmanship as a form of violence, then asks the city to watch.