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Thursday, May 30
7:00pm — FREE Film Trivia
9:00pm — After Hours
$12 General Admission
$10 FACETS Members & Students
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“After Hours approaches the notion of pure filmmaking; it’s a nearly flawless example of—itself. It lacks, as nearly as I can determine, a lesson or a message, and is content to show the hero facing a series of interlocking challenges to his safety and sanity.” —Roger Ebert, rogerebert.com
“After Hours is not, ultimately, a satisfying film, but it’s often vigorously unsettling…That should be read as praise.” —Vincent Canby, The New York Times
FACETS Film Trivia is back at 7pm on Thursday, May 30th with our classic brand of infotainment quiz show fun, followed up by a very special after-trivia screening of Martin Scorsese’s underrated 1985 comedy After Hours at 9pm.
Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne) ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman (Rosanna Arquette). So begins the wildest night of his life, as bizarre occurrences—involving underground-art punks, a distressed waitress, a crazed Mister Softee truck driver, and a bagel-and-cream-cheese paperweight—pile up with anxiety-inducing relentlessness and thwart his attempts to get home.
With this Kafkaesque cult classic, Martin Scorsese—abetted by Michael Ballhaus’s kinetic cinematography and scene-stealing supporting turns by Linda Fiorentino, Teri Garr, Catherine O’Hara, and John Heard—directed a darkly comic tale of mistaken identity, turning the desolate night world of 1980s SoHo into a bohemian wonderland of surreal menace. (Criterion)
Martin Scorsese, U.S.A., 1985, Blu-ray, 97 mins.
Festivals, Awards, and Nominations
Winner – Best Feature, Independent Spirit Award 1986
Winner – Best Director, Cannes Film Festival 1986
Nominee — Palme d’Or, Cannes Film Festival 1986
FILM TRIVIA – 5/30 @ 7pm (Doors at 6:30pm)
FACETS Film Trivia is a FREE monthly event hosted by CineRomero Productions in FACETS Lounge. Test your film knowledge against your friends & fellow cinephiles for both bragging rights and take-home prizes! Questions from the arthouse to the multiplex. From current cinema news to the nitrate nights of yesteryear. We’re here to push your brain ’til the celluloid snaps.
Come out and have some fun with us and see if your team of up to 4 people are actually the smartest people in the room!
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MEMBER TICKETING
If you are a FACETS Film Club member, you and your guests may use your complimentary free tickets for this screening. Please note that walking up with a ticket does not guarantee a seat in the case of a sell-out. We invite you to reserve your complimentary seats by contacting FACETS Help Desk (phone 773-281-9075, ext. 1 or email help@facets.org). After advance reservation, the free ticket(s) must be brought and redeemed at the FACETS Box Office when you arrive for the screening.