Looking for Mr Goodbar (Brooks, 1977): Prince Charles Cinema, 3pm
This is a 35mm presentation.Peter Bradshaw wrote about the film in an article he wrote for the Guardian to coincide with the release of Gaspar Noe's film Love. Here is an extract:
Diane Keaton plays a teacher: here, specifically a teacher of
hearing-impaired children, a touch that accentuates her utterly
respectable, in fact, laudable life. She gets involved in casual sex
with men she meets in seedy bars. It ends in shocking violence. It is as
if female sexuality is always a natural fit for the erotic thriller or
crime thriller genre, and undoubtedly, Goodbar pathologises female
sexuality to some extent, indicating that for a woman to have an
interest in recreational sex is symptomatic of damage, and essentially
tragic in origin and destiny. The film has been occasionally reviled and dismissed, but is arguably
ripe for rediscovery as a confrontational exploitation classic from the
Martin Scorsese/Paul Schrader 70s. It is not available on DVD.
Here (and above) are the opening credits.
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