The Landlord (Ashby, 1970): Prince Charles Cinema, 6pm
This film is part of the Hal Ashby season at the Prince Charles. Details here.
Time Out review:
Hal Ashby’s 1969 debut clearly sprang from the mind behind ‘Harold and Maude’. It’s the tale of a bourgeois brat (Beau Bridges)
from an old-money family who buys a tenement block in a black
neighbourhood intending to create the perfect bachelor pad, but ends up
falling for the residents instead. Loose, funky and rough around the
edges in that trademark late ’60s screw-sense-let’s-try-it fashion, ‘The
Landlord’ succeeds thanks to terrific performances, political nous,
flawless photography from Gordon Willis, a handful of sublimely witty moments and an overall sense of rebellious fun.
Tom Huddleston
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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