After Hours (Scorsese, 1985): Prince Charles Cinema, 6.10pm
This is a new 4K restoration and is also being screened on March 26th and 28th. Details here.
Chicago Reader review:
Martin Scorsese transforms a
debilitating convention of 80s comedy—absurd underreaction to
increasingly bizarre and threatening situations—into a rich,
wincingly funny metaphysical farce. A lonely computer programmer
(Griffin Dunne) is lured from the workday security of midtown
Manhattan to an expressionistic late-night SoHo by the vague promise
of casual sex with a mysterious blonde (Rosanna Arquette). But she
turns out to be a sinister kook whose erratic behavior plunges Dunne
into a series of increasingly strange, devastating incidents,
including encounters with three more treacherous blondes (Verna
Bloom, Teri Garr, and Catherine O'Hara) and culminating in a run-in
with a bloodthirsty mob of vigilantes led by a Mr. Softee truck.
Scorsese's orchestration of thematic development, narrative
structure, and visual style is stunning in its detail and fullness;
this 1985 feature reestablished him as one of the very few
contemporary masters of filmmaking.
Dave Kehr
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