Capital Celluloid 2020 — Day 82: Sun Mar 22

THE PRINCE CHARLES CINEMA HAS CLOSED OWING TO THE CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK AND THIS EVENT AND ALL FUTURE SCREENINGS HAVE BEEN CANCELLED OR POSTPONED. FOR FULL DETAILS YOU CAN CLICK HERE.


Gloria (Cassavettes, 1980): Prince Charles Cinema, 8.45pm

This presentation is part of the ‘Cassavetes on 35mm’ season. Full details here.

Chicago Reader review:
John Cassavetes clearly set out to make a commercial film, but, intransigent personality that he was, he turned in a slice of pure avant-garde: this 1980 release makes use of a fascinating discrepancy between dramatic tone and visual style. It's written as a soggy, conventional melodrama, about an ex-gun moll (Gena Rowlands) who tries to protect an orphaned Puerto Rican boy from the mob, but it's directed in Cassavetes's usual style of deflated naturalism. While the script pitches a series of wildly improbable events, the direction remains disruptively attuned to the dark, arrhythmic poetry of anticlimax. Heightened emotion and nagging banal reality fight each other for screen space, doing final battle in a daringly ambiguous ending.
Dave Kehr

Here (and) above is the trailer.