Wed, Feb 28 / 7 pm
Directed by Martin Scorsese
1985, USA, 97 min
Once a month comedian and co-founder of Kids In The Hall, Kevin McDonald, presents a handpicked film from the archives of comic history.
The work of a master filmmaker. A brilliant film that is so original, so particular, that we are uncertain from moment to moment exactly how to respond to it. The movie tells the story of a night in the life of Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne), a midtown Manhattan word-processing specialist who hates his job and his lonely private life. One night in a restaurant he strikes up a conversation with a winsome young woman (Rosanna Arquette). They seem to share some of the same interests. He gets her telephone number. He calls her, she suggests he come downtown to her apartment in SoHo, and that is the beginning of his Kafkaesque adventure. – Roger Ebert
