Stormy Monday (Figgis, 1988): Garden Cinema, 7.30pm
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Mike Figgis.
Chicago Reader review:
A watchable first feature by English writer-director Mike Figgis,
beautifully shot by Roger Deakins. It’s “America Week” in Newcastle, and
an American gangster/businessman (Tommy Lee Jones) is trying to take
advantage of this by forcing the owner of a local jazz club (Sting) to
sell his building. Meanwhile, a Polish free jazz group arrives at the
club, and a young Irishman (Sean Bean) working there gets involved with a
part-time hooker (Melanie Griffith) from Minnesota working for the
American. While there’s something rather glacial about this
international parable and noirish exercise, apart from a few amusing
gags, the actors, settings, and music manage to hold the interest, and
the underlying theme–the precise equivalence of Reaganism and
gangsterism for most English people–is timely and pointed.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Here (and above) is the Arrow trailer.
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