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Requiem for a Dream (2000) + Jesus' Son (1999) [double feature]
Wednesday and Thursday, March 12-13, 2014:
REQUIEM FOR A DREAM
2000, USA, 102 minutes, 35mm, Lionsgate (originally Artisan)
Directed by Darren Aronofsky
Screenplay by Darren Aronofsky and Hubert Selby, Jr.
Based on Hubert Selby, Jr.'s book
Starring Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly,
Marlon Wayans
Wed & Thu: 7:30 pm
"Aronofsky is so compelling, so visionary a filmmaker, he keeps us riveted to his film as tightly as Sara is to her TV set."
- Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
"Aronofsky brings a new urgency to the drug movie by trying to reproduce, through his subjective camera, how his characters feel, or want to feel, or fear to feel."
- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"Something like a poetry of degradation and sorrow."
- Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
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PLUS, on the same program:
JESUS' SON
1999, USA/Canada, 107 minutes, 35mm, Lionsgate
Directed by Alison Maclean
Screenplay by Elizabeth Cuthrell & David Urrutia
& Oren Moverman
Based on Denis Johnson's book
Starring Billy Crudup, Samantha Morton, Denis Leary,
Holly Hunter, Dennis Hopper, Jack Black, Will Patton,
Michael Shannon
Wed & Thu: 9:35 pm
"Thinking at first I am seeing still one more road movie about a druggie, I find I am wrong. 'Jesus' Son' surprises me with moments of wry humor, poignancy, sorrow and wildness. It has a sequence as funny as any I've seen this year, and one as harrowing, and it ends in a bittersweet minor key, as it should, because to attach this story to a big climax would be a lie, if not a crime."
- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"Alison Maclean, who directed, has a nice feeling for the poetics of disarray and a generous, intuitive way with actors. Parts of this film play like good, early Gus Van Sant, particularly Drugstore Cowboy, which also had a screwy blastedness."
- Peter Rainer, New York Magazine
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This is a double feature:
your ticket admits you to BOTH films!
Screening formats: 35mm
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LocationNew Beverly Cinema (View)
7165 W. Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
United States
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