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Thurs. February 9th, 2023, 7pm
Lili Taylor in Two Indie Classics from the 1990s!
HOUSEHOLD SAINTS (1993. directed by Nancy Savoca, 124 minutes, U.S.)
I SHOT ANDY WARHOL (1996, Mary Harron, 103 min, U.S.)
Hosted by Dan Buskirk (Fleisher Art Memorial, WPRB-Princeton)
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Four generations of an Italian American family are represented in HOUSEHOLD SAINTS, a warm and witty fable of a New York butcher (Vincent D'Onofrio of Kubrick's FULL METAL JACKET) who wins his wife (the multi-talented Tracy Ullman) in a card game. Together they have a daughter Theresa (Lili Taylor) whose devotion to Catholicism is so self-consuming it draws the consternation of their small Italian-American community.
HOUSEHOLD SAINTS (1993. directed by Nancy Savoca, 124 minutes, U.S.)
I SHOT ANDY WARHOL (1996, Mary Harron, 103 min, U.S.)
Hosted by Dan Buskirk (Fleisher Art Memorial, WPRB-Princeton)
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Four generations of an Italian American family are represented in HOUSEHOLD SAINTS, a warm and witty fable of a New York butcher (Vincent D'Onofrio of Kubrick's FULL METAL JACKET) who wins his wife (the multi-talented Tracy Ullman) in a card game. Together they have a daughter Theresa (Lili Taylor) whose devotion to Catholicism is so self-consuming it draws the consternation of their small Italian-American community.
HOUSEHOLD SAINTS is the third and most-acclaimed feature from writer/director Nancy Savoca, whose previous film 1989's TRUE LOVE and 1991's DOGFIGHT had earned her a devout following. Savoca finds a dignity and fantastical humor in Theresa saintly ambition and as always Savoca's film is loaded with vivid performances, including from Illeana Douglas and THE SOPRANOS Michael Imperioli as Theresa's befuddled husband. This film has been woefully out-of-circulation since the days of VHS videotape.
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I SHOT ANDY WARHOL is the debut feature from Mary Harron, a writer/director who would go on to her biggest success with her fearless 2000 adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' controversial novel AMERICAN PSYCHO. Harron sets her sights on a different anti-social character here, the Ventnor-born Valerie Solanas, a radical feminist writer scraping by in late '60s New York, recruiting women to join her group S.C.U.M., “the Society for Cutting Up Men”. In this real-life story, Valerie is improbably swept into the periphery of the scene-makers around Andy Warhol's Factory studio and as her artistic ambitions meet frustration, Solanas' fury slowly finds its focus on Warhol himself.
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I SHOT ANDY WARHOL is the debut feature from Mary Harron, a writer/director who would go on to her biggest success with her fearless 2000 adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' controversial novel AMERICAN PSYCHO. Harron sets her sights on a different anti-social character here, the Ventnor-born Valerie Solanas, a radical feminist writer scraping by in late '60s New York, recruiting women to join her group S.C.U.M., “the Society for Cutting Up Men”. In this real-life story, Valerie is improbably swept into the periphery of the scene-makers around Andy Warhol's Factory studio and as her artistic ambitions meet frustration, Solanas' fury slowly finds its focus on Warhol himself.
Where other filmmakers might have played up Solanas' menace, Harron (with the help of Taylor's committed performance) is empathetic to Solanas' artistic frustrations and her critique of the patriarchy. There's also a lot of humor on the way to tragedy, all set in the heady atmosphere of Warhol's world, populated by trans icon Candy Darling (Steven Dorff), Michael Imperioli (again!) as the Warhol Superstar Ondine, Justin Theroux as a violent radical and MAD MEN's Jared Harris as Warhol himself. With a score by John Cale and Yo La Tengo standing in for The Velvet Underground.
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Masking is encouraged. Seating is limited.
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Masking is encouraged. Seating is limited.
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